Last year, just after Thanksgiving, I made a little pergola out of pruned branches.  This year I took it down…

Went for a walk.  Twisted my ankle.  Fractured my elbow. 

We woke up this morning to frost, and tomorrow holds snow.  The cosmos survived the frost.  They are resilient things.…

Found this growing under the dish drainer in the sink.  Huh.  Apparently I’m not much of a housekeeper, but I…

Proof that dahlias do, indeed, grow from seed.  They are not the colors I would have chosen, and they are…

These days, what with the job and the kid and all, I count my garden time in precious hours, not…

Vacation.  One would think there would be much gardening.  But no.  Instead, at the insistence of one small boy I…

I got home from Nigeria on Saturday evening, and almost immediately (after hugging my boys and being licked by the…