Our garden has been left to its own devices for a while, mostly due to the weather but partly because of the Sheltering Syndrome. We are absolutely fine with sheltering in place until someone yells ollie-ollie-oxen-free but the problem might be...
…singing every stretch of the way! (Well, I was; Nyel doesn't sing.) If you are a "Double J and the Boys" fan, you know Judy Eron's wonderful song of revenge, "I Picked His Plum Tree Bare." It can easily work its way into your head and become a...
The final step (I hope to goodness) in the Great Septic Upgrade Saga began yesterday. First, came Eugene, one of the Beach Time landscaping guys. Next came three truckloads of dirt – yards and yards of it. I don't know how many. It's easier...
Our friend Cate said that our place looked like "a home for old people." She was talking about our garden and the chairs that were lined up invitingly all in a row. She said it jokingly, but still… That was a few years back – when we were a lot...
Music in the Gardens is coming right up! Saturday, July 21st from ten to four. We've have our tickets in hand. We also have lists of musicians and artists, which gardens they will be in, and at what times. Trying to decide where to go first and...
The lawns, the flower beds, even the porch – no matter where we look, there is "snow." Some of it is an improbably bright pink; some is a faded red; and some is stark white. The rhododendrons are losing their blossoms! But, even more...
Yesterday's field trip to the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens was a bust – not at all what we had hoped for and nothing like our memory of it. Definitely one of those you-can't-go-home-again things! The worst part was that we had talked it up to our...
Our trip back from Portland yesterday afternoon couldn't have been better. It was a gorgeous day for a drive and we reveled in the scenery all the way to our front door. What a beautiful area we live in! It never ceases to bring us pleasure....
Never mind that the flowers may not yet be in bud. And never mind that the musicians won’t be tuning up for another month or so. It is time to mark our calendars for the Water Music Festivals BIG EVENT OF SUMMER – Music in the Gardens 2017. It’s...
For a wonder, I actually worked out in the garden yesterday and accomplished more than I had anticipated. I credit Mike’s weather forecast. I had counted on a partly sunny day with temperatures in the 50s and that’s what we got. Yay! As the...
The information we have, so far, about the Music in the Gardens tour a week from today is just enough to tantalize! We know the identities of some of the musicians involved. And we know that there will be artists ‘on duty’ in a couple of the...
One thing about being gone from here for any length of time in the summer: you are bound to come back to a garden that has gone ballistic. Kuzzin Kris’s TLC in the watering department kept Nyel’s vegetable patch good and healthy and kept the...