Delicious autumn!
My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns.
- George Eliot
I love autumn! Everything I have enjoyed (and sometimes endured) with the summer garden is [...]
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Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall, So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move. ~Dinah Maria Mulock
We say it every summer, where did the time go?! The long [...] When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ~Ramakrishna quote
One step outside the door and you can’t miss the sights or sounds of our end-of-summer garden… the constant flitting and steady hum of insect wings. Summer vegetable blossoms for the most part have slowed or stopped [...] When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
Summer heat has for the moment waned and we’re enjoying comfortable days and almost chilly nights. The past few weeks of high temperatures paired with alternating days of heavy rain have combined to produce [...] “Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.” ~Ashleigh Brilliant
Weeding, canning, harvesting vegetables, fruits and seeds. Senior pictures for youngest daughter, wedding plans for eldest daughter, two busy teen boys, blogging and life in general. There’s always something [...] “When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it hitched to the rest of the Universe.” J. Muir I’ve recently been invited to join a group of gardeners on a new adventure at beautifulwildlifegarden.com, a site dedicated to “re-defining beautiful” in the garden. Why would a vegetable gardener join [...] Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
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In between weeding and harvesting (and the rain that seems to fall all the time) we found time to visit our local pond store. Though our toad populations are alive and well, our fish and bullfrogs have attracted the attention of [...] I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like good cooking. ~James Beard
August is here and the Spitfire nasturtium seeds planted months ago have grown to be happy ramblers in the garden. July was one of the wettest we’ve had in a [...] I love cherry tomatoes. I have since I was a little girl and my Uncle Walter grew them in his yard. Whenever we visited in summer he would lead me across his manicured lawn to the back of the house where his cherry tomato plants grew. I ate them like candy savoring every warm juicy [...] |
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