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Winter returned last night and sighed its snowy flakes over the yard. I’m tempted to grumble but can’t seem to muster the strength. It’s too beautiful. The birds this morning are unfazed, even excited as they flit from branch to feeder and then off again. Watching them this morning I made [...] Busy, busy, busy! February is a flurry of garden-planning and seed planting around here. Pay no mind to that old groundhog who today predicted six more weeks of winter…preparations are under way! Newspaper plugs have been neatly rolled and set into trays waiting to be filled with starter mix. Seeds for the first of the [...] It seems all at once everything has changed in the indoor garden. A week’s distraction has revealed: Eggplant leaves that measure 8 inches in length! The first delicate, white blossoms of peppers. More okra… I wasn’t even sure it would grow. I’m glad I tried! Though a bit smaller [...] Winter came to our home one night Quietly pirouetting on silvery-toed slippers of snow, And we , we were children once again. -Bill Morgan, Jr. Welcome to December and the first snowfall of the season for Rochester, NY. Say what you will about Winter’s cold and frigid winds, its [...] What a joy to wake up with SUN this morning! Pitch black mornings make it hard to get out of bed. There was a definite chill in the air, 32 degrees and frost to be exact. My day started with a chuckle, courtesy of local channel 10 weatherman Rich Caniglia as he described catching a [...] |
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