Garden
Friday's Flowers
May 15, 2010
Yesterday afternoon I met the lovely Megan from Homeschooling on the Run. My first blogger meet-up, which was as fun as I hoped it would be. Of interesting note - Megan is a homeschool graduate and I always love meeting those types. Megan came to visit so I could give ...
Red, yellow and orange all over
May 8, 2010
Last weekend (don't worry I'll soon stop talking about last weekend) my mom brought a large bouquet of tulips from her garden to give to our hosts. They were breathtakingly beautiful and I snapped more photos of them than was sane. The tulips are all gone bye* at our home. ...
Small Yard Composting
April 27, 2010
Composting is very easy and because it's totally natural, happens regardless of our intervention. However, the better you manage the three basic elements the quicker you'll have "black gold" to add to your garden. Also, a well managed compost will be less smelly and be more pleasant to deal with. This is decomposition we're talking about afterall.
I garden for beauty
April 15, 2010
All the photos in this post are of flowers grown in our yard. There's not many blossoms right now to photograph, besides hyacinth and daffodils, so I copied some of my favorites from past years (featured in the gallery) to highlight here. We live in a tight urban neighborhood. This ...
The morning's magic
April 3, 2010
I started the day in the kitchen preparing our traditional Friday morning breakfast of gluten free pancakes, fruit and maple syrup. But then I got distracted. (I have a post coming up next Friday on Simple Homeschool that makes this distraction part kind of ironic. You'll have to read the ...
March is for re-evaluating
March 3, 2010
After a whirlwind month of finding new tenants (not planned), being sick (not planned), winter camping and family visiting (planned) and Laurent's birthday (anticipated but not so much planned) I feel, having turned the corner into March, I can finally breathe deep again. And return, if only for a couple ...
November looks like...
November 12, 2009
new knitting and crochet projects the last of the yellow leaves sunlit grasses and warm afternoons the last of the light as it bleeds into dark fresh chard from our raised bed orange blazes on weekend hikes the last bouquet of the season from my frost hardy chrysanthemum The color ...
