Shhh, sleeping bees After a summer during which I didn’t have to water the garden once because it rained every few days, the faucet has been turned off. We’ve been dry since the last week of August. Oh we had thunder and rain yesterday afternoon, but while the thunder rumbled for nearly half an hour, …
All the Busy Caught Up With Me
The current garden view from the deck I had so many plans for the garden this weekend but after a month of go-go-go I just can’t. So I didn’t finish digging out the compost bins. But even resting I still managed to do quite a bit. I picked and shelled dry beans. I picked mint, …
Coming Up for Air
Wow, that was an intense few weeks. I know there are many comments I have not replied to; I will work on doing that in the coming days. The garden is still busy but has begun to slow down as the days get shorter and autumn looms. I have four large freezer bags of elderberries …
Busy!
Oh friends, the garden has been keeping me busy and I've had no time to sit down and write or reply to comments or visit blogs to say hello. Today, I have photos to offer so you can at least have an idea of how everything is going. Front yard prairie garden View of the …
Spice of Life
Bee on hyssop Last week at 4 a.m. on Tuesday—or was it Wednesday? it’s all a sleep deprived blur—the raccoon came back for more apples. Thud! Roll! Splat! James and I both woke up and held our breathe. Thud! Roll! Splat! We groaned. James swore, got out of bed, grabbed the cake pans, turned on …
