North Carolina
Twenty years ago, my daughter Amberle, Bonnie, and I visited the Biltmore Estate Gardens in Asheville, North Carolina. I used a point-and-shoot Canon Powershot SD300, according to the file metadata, though I don’t remember much about that camera; I’m fairly certain the camera on my phone today is better than the SD300. However, as they…
“You know you have a problem on your hands when you ask someone how to spell “orange” and they ask, “The color or the fruit?”― Craig D. Lounsbrough Between a couple of rain showers this past weekend, I took a moment to make a few photos of the flowers in a pot out front of…
The neighborhood where Bentley and I walk is full of Crape Myrtle trees, and they are blooming. I like these scarlet-red ones the best, but there are also white and pink varieties. While the blooms are lovely to view, they can be quite a mess if they grow over a sidewalk or patio. Bonnie and…
“When we create a garden, no matter how small or where it is in the world, we enrich the world as a whole.”― Bhuwan Thapaliya There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over our backyard in the early morning. The light comes in low and golden, the air still cool, or at least as cool…
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” — Langston Hughes The plants are responding to the additional rain we received at the end of last week..
I realized I haven’t posted an update on the Hillside Fern Project since last September. So here it is! We experienced an early start to spring this year in mid-February, and we have been in a drought since even before then, with daily high temperatures fluctuating. This may be the new normal, but regardless of…
