From the monthly archives:
This is Henny, a wonderful fresh brown egg provider.
Dear Daughter (18) fried an egg from the store. We do buy when the eggs aren’t plentiful, I confess I have a hard time taking them from under the laying hens. We have three who hoard them. Anyways back on track here, she felt ill all day. [...]
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This is Cass, my daughter’s horse. She’ll walk with me and watch every move I make while I tend my crop of weeds and my lowly little row of zinnias, although very happy zinnias since the recent rain.
These zinnias would be perfect for a beautiful garden wedding.
The siding on the barn is going up [...]
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On Amending…
amend; to correct, free from faults, to change for the better
Amending the soil. My new garden has proven to be more of a challenge than expected. This is my 3rd year working it. Weeds still seem to be the main crop. I’ve resorted to mowing them in hopes of a neater appearance.
Clay, heavy hard [...]
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Baby tears and strawberries growing in the side wall of the sun-pit greenhouse.
The walls are recycled cement slat flooring from a local cattle farm. A real switch from their original use. In a sun-pit greenhouse you need a solar mass to collect the heat during the day to keep the pit warm [...]
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Lavender, a couple lemon verbena, a little rosemary tuck in there, mini hens and chicks, lettuce (going to seed on purpose), a bay tree, English thyme, along with a tomato growing in the wall.
This is my experiment wall. All kinds of new things happen here. I’ll rip out and re-plant on a frequent basis. I [...]
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After the Shower
A tender sky-half tears , half smile; a sobbing breeze; green meadows where
A thousand diamonds glittering lie; and in the soft, sweet summer air the fragrance of reviving flowers, which lift their drooping heads again,
And the sweet scent of woodland ferns- after the summer rain.
From every bush, and shrub, and tree, the [...]
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