When I started this blog I was celebrating swapping the snow shovel for a swimming pool as we relocated from Pittsburgh to Atlanta. The blog now goes now goes back to the north – Toledo – where I get to start over again.
This little video is about what the new garden was like when we [...]
The fragrant gardenia bloom
The calendar shows the end of May and the official start of summer is celebrated. In the garden that is shown by the first flush of the gardenias. These dark green, glossy leaves make for a lovely evergreen bush, but the flowers are perfect! They are pure white and very fragrant which stand out [...]
Sometimes I think I must wear blinders when I am in the garden. It seems like the only explanation for walking, almost every day, past a thirty foot holly and not noticing it! The large tree has been limbed up to about six foot, and it is the first in a line of eight mature trees [...]
I needed to find some photographs for the header page of this blog and found myself going through a whole bunch of old (relatively old, anyway) photographs, The digital era has created an atmosphere where even rotten photographs are not deleted, and I take many more than we ever did with traditional cameras – although [...]