2008

Jun

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of...”
— Thomas Jefferson

“Apples in the orchard Mellowing one by one; Strawberries...”
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich,...

“I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and...”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses...

“Earth laughs in flowers.”
— ~Ralph Waldo Emerson,...

“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty...”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the...”
— – John Vance Cheney

The coffee tree is blooming to beat the band!

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world...

“In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on...”
— ~Aldo Leopold

Overnight sensation! Hot Hot Hot!

May

The Girls’ Work In Progress………..

These are kiwi flowers- can you tell??!

“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the...”
— ~W.E. Johns, The Passing Show

“In the garden my soul is sunshine”

“What potent blood hath modest May.” - Ralph W....”
— Ralph W. Emerson

“High Tide, Folks!”

Move over a little, would ya?!

Covered Wetlands

Shhh, it’s a secret…

It took me twenty years to get one of these to...

Am I Getting Taller, Mama??

Time to Come In For Your Dinner...

Baby Chicks

These are for Lori:

I Worship at the Altar of Arnica

“The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does...”
— Charles Babbage -I think he...

“A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in...”
— Clementine Paddleford

“I’m on the seafood diet. I see food and I eat it.”

Apr

Broody, Broody, Broody!!

“Eggs taste best in the Spring”
— Pellegrino Artusi, The Art of...

AAAAAAhhh…What A Day

New Look For The Outside Shower

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like...”
— Margaret Atwood

I do believe I have found the answer!

What the H EEE Double Hockey sticks am I to do with these beans?!

“April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her...”
— Nothing Gold Can Stay ...

Mar

“‘Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it...”
— ~William Wordsworth,...

“For winter’s rains and ruins are over, And all the season of...”
— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail

Take A Deep Breath…

“What county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are...”
— Thomas Jefferson

In The City of Brotherly Love

“The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the...”
— William C. Bryant

Wind Flower

Anemone patens PART USED.—The plant Anemone nemorosa Linn. Natural Order Ranunculaceae, Tribe...

The Garden Thus Far:

“To you, rough, wild, inconstant month, I shall no love song...”
— MARCH, By Dorothy Moffatt

Feb

“Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly...”
— Author: Helen Hunt Jackson...

“Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats...”

Mr. Hobbs To You.

“People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them...”
— John Jay Chapman

“Is the blue sky happy? It is doing its daily duty, Of course...”
— ~Ed Northstrum

Spruced up the greenhouse in honor of Approaching Spring

Jan

Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.”
— ~John Ruskin

“There’s no need for a piece of sculpture in a home...”
— ~Wesley Bates

“Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, be...”
— Native American Proverb

tiny dancer

Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand And now she’s in me, always with me,...

Baby Doll Blanket- awaiting a scalloped edging….

Baby, It's Cold Outside!

Cape May Court House, New Jersey Current Observations - 10:35 PM on Sunday 20...

The Freeze Approaches...

“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most...”
— – Edgar Allan Poe

getting ready…

Democratic Underground

Friday Jan 18

I found the ducks’ eggs. I do wish they would not hide their offerings.

kathykerr - Kathy's Music

“All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the...”
— Helen Hayes

Jan 17 2008

The dog is making me do chores again.