It’s a record breaking 55F/13C here today! Yowza! It made cutting back prairie plants near the sidewalk in the front yard a pleasant and mildly sweaty experience. But the weather is soon to change. Spent goldenrod flowers are beautiful The polar vortex is about to be disrupted, one of the earliest disruptions on record since …
Category: Seasons
Finally Frost
As I sat at the kitchen table shelling dry beans Friday afternoon, idly gazing out the sliding glass doors to the deck. Spider Squirrel came for a visit. The daytime temperatures have settled into crisp autumn and the glass door was closed, but the screen door was open, pushed back almost all the way to …
The Sound of Monarch Wings Flapping
The milkweed has been blooming for a few weeks now and it is utterly delightful to see all the monarch butterflies flitting around the garden. I think of butterflies as slow and gentle beings, failing to remember that monarchs migrate thousands of miles every year. The speed at which they move through the garden is …
Seeds and Such
Hi Friends! I wanted to have a huge political rant, but I know many of you are being extremely careful about how and when you take in certain subjects these days, so I put my rants and links under the "Reading" heading at the end of the post and labeled it "politics" so you can …
Imbolc
Multigrain sourdough bread Check it out! Another sourdough! This one is multigrain. I expected it would use multigrain flour, but no, it called for 10-grain cereal to add to the dough. But my co-op only had 7-grain so I am missing three grains. Heh. No matter. It is delicious! Are y’all tired of my sourdough …
