Cee’s Midweek Madness: Pick A Topic From My Photo There are plenty of choices in this photograph.
Gardens
ROSES
FOTD – July 7 – Roses It’s that time of year again and the roses are blooming. I didn’t have a camera yesterday when I was down by the garden and I got busy today. Tomorrow I’ll have to go take… Read More ›
AN ABUNDANCY OF FLOWERS
FOTD – July 2 – Flowers, flowers everywhere It’s not only that the flowers are growing with a level of enthusiasm I’ve never seen before. It’s also the growing season has changed. Wild flowers like Queen Anne’s Lace and Spiderwort… Read More ›
FLOWERS OF THE DAY
FOTD – June 27 – Flowers on a Hot Sunny Day The weather went from chilly enough to need a sweater, to very hot in one night. It’s in the 90s. Not the high 90s, but hot enough. Today the… Read More ›
ALMOST READY ROSES
FOTD – June 18 – Roses budding I thought the flowers would be blooming by today, but they are still mostly buds with only a few flowers. I had been worried we weren’t going to have any roses. Owen pointed… Read More ›
QUEEN ANNE’S LACE
FOTD – June 17 – QUEEN ANNE’S LACE Last year, we let the Queen Anne’s Lace grow without interference. This year, there are many more than last year. Practically a whole garden full, now plentifully mixed with long, golden daylily… Read More ›
FLOWERS FOR MEMORIAL DAY
FOTD: Flowers for a Day of Memories Memorial Day was set for the end of May because that is when the flowers are in full bloom in the gardens in North America. And so, I bring you flowers, for the… Read More ›
COLUMBINE
FOTD – May 22 – COLUMBINE It must be spring because the Columbine is blooming. We don’t have the fancy columbine I’ve seen in other people’s pictures. Ours looks more like the wild version, though we planted it ourselves back… Read More ›
MOTHER’S DAY MACROS
FOTD – May 8: MOTHER’S DAY ORCHID MACROS Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers and children of mothers. I think the orchids are at their peak now. There are more buds and the last orchid is just beginning to… Read More ›
BUDS AND THE FLOWERS TO COME
FOTD – May 1 – Buds Outside, if it isn’t flowering, it’s not budding… yet. It’s a bit late, but it has been dropping to freezing at night, even though it warms up (usually) (but not today) during the day. We’ve… Read More ›
BEGINNING TO BLOOM
FOTD – April 29 – The Garden Outside First, I am here to announce to the world that we have a tulip! One tulip 🌷 Yellow. Right in the middle of the garden. It doesn’t look much like a garden… Read More ›
DAFFODILS IN SUNSHINE
FOTD – April 17 – Daffodils by Owen Kraus Owen took these with his phone, but it was a good day and the sun was out for a while. It has gone back behind the clouds now and it’s chilling… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 27 – FLOWERS
It’s great thinking about spring considering that we are currently deep in winter. When I went outside to feed the birds this morning, the snow — which is now more ice than snow — crunched loudly under my feet. A… Read More ›
BEAUTIFUL BLUE HYDRANGEA
THE BIRTHDAY GIFT THAT KEPT ON GIVING It was a birthday gift — I think for Garry, though since Garry doesn’t garden, all gifted plants are for me. We kept it alive inside for almost two months and then planted… Read More ›
SKETCHBOOK 22 – WILD STRAWBERRY FLOWERS
A long time ago, we planted three little wild strawberry plants. They have the prettiest magenta, red, or deep pink blossoms. They bloom from early spring through most of the summer. They have spread, over the years, from three plants… Read More ›
COLUMBINE
FOTD – February 16 – Columbine I planted two Columbine when we first put in this garden 16 or 17 years ago. Now it’s the dominant early bloomer in the garden. All the plants, like the original, are magenta. Light magenta…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 