Category Archives: gardening

Before free … the joy of home grown, fresh picked, so beautiful, so healthy. Today’s brunch. This is the last pickings of chard and parsley, lightly sauteed with a fresh, neighbor’s “girls” egg, adorned with one of the indoor ripening … Continue reading →

It occurred to me as I was tasting the first small batch of just-cooked cranberry beans from the garden that gardening is a visionary long-term project. That’s been the case since Day One from the first woman who planted a … Continue reading →

In addition to flowers, shapes, colors, and scents, Mother Nature created beans! The variety of colors, sizes, and tastes seem as diverse as types of leaves on trees. This season provided a new experience with the beans in my garden: … Continue reading →

How graceful it all is. The peony lies down. Its autumn leaves as beautiful as its anticipated blooms in June. Returning home from the hospital was to enter a frost-completed garden. It’s season complete and me, too.     Beautiful … Continue reading →

First, a young monarch butterfly on a purple zinnia. One can observe that its sorting out how to be a new butterfly through its sluggishness and drinking from a flower that is going past its prime, thus not much nectar. … Continue reading →