Garden Junkie

Gardening, chocolate, and coffee.  I crave them all right now, in about equal measure.  There is a proposal due, a…

Little jewels

Sometimes it all works exactly as you had hoped it would.

Repose

Noble Otis It was 65 degrees yesterday, and after a half hour of puttering in the garden I decided to…

Blooming Old

The tabletop garden began to bloom this week, aided by a couple of sweet little plants bought on impulse on…

Small (tiny) is Good

Here is my winter garden – a few pots on tables and a shelf above the kitchen sink.  I have…

Good Fences

After about 10 years of chain link, we have upgraded our fences (at least a few of them) to wood.…

Prophylactic

My grapes are wearing rubbers to protect their sweet vulnerable flesh from the depraved ravages of the birds. Standard plastic…

When the Tree Falls

A derecho took out my tree.  No, I had never heard of a derecho, either, but apparently it is a…