Category Archives: gardening

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 →

The Monarch caterpillars are a few weeks old now. Still munching away on the milkweed. The little black pellets are poop. Seems that they are eating well! Hollyhocks, bachelor buttons, mexican hats, and gaillardia are all going by, to the … Continue reading →