FOTD – September 2 – Little Pink Roses I haven’t done one of these in a long time because my flower garden is a horror show. We’ve had almost no rain. It has been exceptionally hot and humid, so no… Read More ›
Gardens
MY FAVORITE GARDEN BIRDS IN 2020 (WITH 4 MONTHS TO GO)
I don’t have anything raging through my mind, so I thought this might be a good time to show off my favorite bird pictures for 2020. There isn’t a lot of good stuff going on. Most of us haven’t gone… Read More ›
DAYLILIES IN THE BACKYARD
FOTD – July 27 – Daylilies The flowers are blooming and wilting in one day from the heat. And we could really use some rain … which we might get. Tomorrow afternoon or evening, assuming the weather guy is right…. Read More ›
A GREAT DAY FOR THE LILIES – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – July 6 – Daylily Today was as close to a perfect summer day as you could hope for. It was warm, dry, breezy, and sunny. Not terribly hot and not at all humid. Owen decided to put up the… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS – JUNE 2020 – Marilyn Armstrong
THE CHANGING SEASONS – JUNE 2020 – AND SO MUCH MORE … What a strange and haunted year we have had. We are living in a world we never imagined except perhaps as a science fiction novel of the dystopian… Read More ›
DAYLILIES IN THE RAIN – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – June 28 – Daylily It finally rained today. It was the thunder that woke me from an impossibly deep sleep and it was a lot later than I thought. In fact, I never sleep that late, but we were… Read More ›
BACKYARD DAYLILIES
FOTD – June 24 – DAYLILIES IN THE BACK It had to be about 18 or 19 years ago when Owen and a friend came by on Mother’s Day and informed me they were going to build a garden for… Read More ›
IT WOULD NOT BE SUMMER WITHOUT FUCHSIA
FOTD – June 25 – Fuchsia I took pictures of a lot of flowers yesterday. Not just the daylilies, but also the Fuchsia. And a few other things. But let’s do this one flower group at a time. I honestly… Read More ›
THE WILDEST GARDEN IN WORCESTER COUNTY – Marilyn Armstrong
FOTD – June 16 The Wild Garden of Worcester When you totally neglect a garden — even if you have a very good reason, like, for example you are trying to not die — eventually it goes completely out of… Read More ›
MAY 2020 – THE CHANGING SEASONS, A DIFFERENT WORLD – MARILYN ARMSTRONG
The Changing Seasons, May 2020 To say that the world is a different place than it was last month and completely different than the month before, AND has almost nothing to do with last spring or even last winter is probably… Read More ›
COLUMBINE ARE UP AND ROSES ARE ON THE WAY – GARRY ARMSTRONG
FOTD – May 31 – COLUMBINE I went into town to take pictures of Owen at work, stopped to pick up some stuff to drink, then came home to take flower pictures. I haven’t conquered macro pictures of flowers yet…. Read More ›
MY DAY AT THE HOSPITAL – Marilyn Armstrong
After a day during which we got up early because I had a hospital appointment, the day after Bonnie quite literally barked all night, it made this into a very long day. Garry hadn’t driven in so long, we missed… Read More ›
WORLD SHARING, SUCH AS IT IS – Marilyn Armstrong
We’ve had some days of sunshine and that has helped my mood. It hasn’t changed the dynamics of the Coronavirus or its enormous impact on this area. Massachusetts is considered “New England” while New York is considered northern central east… Read More ›
SPRING IN THE VALLEY – CEE’S FUN FOTO CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Spring Scenes and flowers of the day We don’t have much of a spring season here. It tends to stay cold until suddenly in May, the leaves pop out of the trees and everything blooms during… Read More ›
THE THREE SEASON YEAR – Marilyn Armstrong
We don’t get four seasons. We get three. Summer — hot, sticky, and buggy, but at least it’s warm. Okay, a lot of humidity, but you have to take the good with the bad. I had been hoping we’d more… Read More ›
LEARNING TO GROW THINGS – Marilyn Armstrong
I started to grow plants because my friend Mary was a crazed grower of potted plants. She lived in Brooklyn. Park Slope at the time. These years, she has a house out on Staten Island. We haven’t seen each other… Read More ›
THE NEW LITTLE GARDEN – Marilyn Armstrong
The New Little Garden – 09-13-2019 I wanted a new orchid. To bring in any new plant, I needed someplace to put them. Everything was on a leftover dining chair, a stool. There was one plant stand, but everything else… Read More ›
COUNTRY GARDENS BETWEEN STORMS – Marilyn Armstrong
AMELIORATING AND JUDICIOUS WILD PLANTING OF FLOWERS IN THE TINY TOWN OF UXBRIDGE Our lawns are essentially wild,, too. I can’t turn on the hose because that pipe broke a few years ago and I haven’t figured out where to… Read More ›
AUGUST: DOG AND OTHER DAYS – Marilyn Armstrong
August 2012 through 2019 A little photographic journey around the northeastern end of the American continent. I didn’t have a single fire pump for Cee’s challenge, so I went back through seven years of August. From Glocester to Rockport, from… Read More ›
TRACTOR WITH WEEDS – AN AUGUST GARDEN – Marilyn Armstrong
Tractor and Weeds – 08/12/19
NEW ENGLAND GARDENS – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Gardens The gardens of New England are a bit tired as we go into August. Most of my flowers are early summer flowers. They used to bloom in May and June, but recently they bloom… Read More ›
THE WILDFLOWER GARDEN AT RIVER BEND – Garry Armstrong
Wildflower Garden at River Bend – 08/05/19 River Bend is all about “wild.” So, not surprisingly, the gardens are entirely made up of wildflowers. I took a few pictures of them. The gardens are peaceful and the bees are always… Read More ›
#FOTD – THE FLOWERS AT RIVERSIDE – Marilyn Armstrong
Flowers in the Medieval Garden at Riverside Healthcare I lost a bunch of pictures from this chip be inadvertently deleting a folder. But they had some lovely flowers and these are the pictures that I didn’t delete. Sorry about that!… Read More ›
SUMMER FLOWERS – FOTD – Marilyn Armstrong
Summer Flowers – 07/29/19
