Saturday Morning Garden Blogging: Signs of Fall
Even before cool days increase in number and those night temperatures get downright chilly, I can always tell the signs of Autumn before tree leaves change their colours.While my backyard looks like...
View ArticleAji and Wings:Thank You! And the Roof will be Raised
This is a Thank You diary. A big thank you to the community for it’s positive energy, love, devotion, recs, shares and donations that have helped Aji and Wings meet this moment.Of course, more needs...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging: Are you ready for Blue?
I just thought it would be a nice time to revisit the Blues… okay — maybe some purples turning to blue? Who doesn’t love Blue? ‘nuff said.Happy Saturday!! Let’s make November a month for Blue...
View ArticleAji and Wings: More help needed, please!
I love looking at this photo above, no matter how unfinished this home looks. It’s because I see the deck attached to a house, a home — and I see the shininess of what will be windows. And up on top...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging 12.51 ~ You can't kill us...
As of 9 days ago, there were still blooming flowers in the yard. Fewer, but still blooming, and this even after two days of frost since the end of the official growing season. milkweed, tropical I...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blog: February 2009-2016
Eight years of February… and some thoughts. February 2009, a black bird covered in stars... February 2010, emerging from the cold, the heather endures February 2011, winds blow hard but the feet stick...
View ArticleAji and Wings ~ Resilience, Endurance and Hope
As the earth cycles towards our season of rebirth and awakening, I’m reminded not to forget the season’s quirks and the groundhogs curse.On February 2, we were supposed to be on our way to an early...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 13.13: Gardening in White
wtf… it’s Spring. How can this happen? Up to the neck in white??!!!Where’s the groundhog? Why am I being punished this way??! And here I was admiring these the other day:You can tell from that sky...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging ~ Vol 13.18 ~ Almond Along
I live in the northeast. Not the super cold part of the northeast, but on Long Island, NY, where the climate is tempered by the Atlantic.Around 1995 or so, I decided to plant an almond tree. It was...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 13.20 ~Pooling Thoughts and Ponds
In 2012, I had the back garden cleared out and moved the pond to its new spot. Five years pass, changed and expanded the pond twice. In 2015, I put in a stream — which was an utter failure. I was...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging, Vol 13.23 ~ It's June!
June is here. I bought some milkweed that already had caterpillars.I still have more plants cluttering up my driveway that need to be planted!!June! It’s already June and I’m still planting! And the...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 13.26 ~ The Eagle has Landed
Well, no. Not THAT eagle. Unless I had a huge pond with yummy fish, I don’t suspect I could find a way to feed a bird eagle and this is a garden diary after all. Gardens feed people and other...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 13.32 : Portraits
How are you taking your photos these days? Are you lugging around a camera or are you like me, mostly take photos with a smart phone?The dragonfly photo above was taken with a camera (Canon EOS Rebel...
View ArticleSeptember is Blue
Lido Beach, NY September 11, 2017 For 16 years my body has never failed to fall into a pattern of instinct and memory as the mornings start off cool and the skies reflect a clarity without the haze of...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging, Vol 13.39 ~ What Do You Do...
Soooo. What do you do when the diary you started gets held hostage in the depths of the computer which won't let it go? Mei proclaims she didn't do it, but she sleeps on the computer keyboard on a...
View ArticleUPDATE 2: Match met!!!! Aji and Wings~ Words on the Wind, Love Sent and Received
It’s been a long hard two years when the single focus has been to get Aji and Wings back under a real roof with real walls and real windows and into a real home after having their previous home ripped...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 13.44 ~ Pondering in November
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Turquoise teeth and lavender earsRed skirts and pink gownsRare magenta pearls and the common whiteA unicorn horn is...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging ~ Vol 14.3: I'm dreaming of a....
It's right around this time of year as I start to notice and feel the days lengthening and then I get those idgies… I want to get out and see what's growing, even if temperatures here are still...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging ~ Vol 14.07: the Season of Meh!
Usually February is the month most of us here on Long Island, NY, think of as the “worst” month. Unpredictable, cold, likely the worst snow month. Well… so far it’s been a fairly warmish February and...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol.14.10 ~ I hate it when the groundhog is...
So... second nor’easter within a week… Thank goodness, this one was a bust! That is, at least in my neck of the woods on the south shore of Long Island. My sister in NJ got about 10” of wet heavy...
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