“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” — unknown Bonnie’s lemon tree is in its third year with us, and each season, it grows a little more and produces delicious fruit. We have it in a large pot to bring it inside during the winter…
This bloom is outside our window where I usually have my morning coffee. I’ve been watching it and determined it was at or near its peak this morning. It’s such a rich color. I thought I’d share as a follow-up to my post of June 12th.
Here are a few other interesting facts I discovered about Daylilies: They’ve been the subject of and praised by many famous Chinese poets; they are often used as a pollution detection plant (when the air is polluted by fluorine, the tips of their leaves will turn reddish-brown); and they are also cultivated as…
While having my first cup of coffee in the morning, I usually look at the view in the above photo. I’m often up before sunrise, so I watch this scene as the light slowly overcomes darkness and often is eventually flooded with bright sunshine. However, we’ve not had abundant sunshine recently, as it’s…
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The earth’s climate is changing, and the best we can do now is to try and mitigate how much it changes…