Phone Blogging Late Night Installment
I can nearly hold my eyes open, just nearly. Gonna be super short. But tomorrow making pesto from my basil is top of the agenda! Tonight is cold. Freezing cold. All the warm season plants will be black...
View ArticleBackyard Chickens
Just a few photos from my backyard flock. I have a post series planned about how I went-and-lost-my-mind, and now-I-have-chickens. Edna – soon to be the roo who goes to live with Nanny. Buddy—the...
View ArticleA Good Egg
“And a big white hen standing on one leg. And under the hen was a quiet egg,” a line from one of our most treasured board books, The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown. Today was a momentous day for...
View ArticleBig-Girl Camera: The Sky and the Lens
Today the sky was beautiful. The high, wispy clouds and bright sun and blue, blue sky, made everything seem to drip in light. I’m a hobby photographer, with a very good friend who loaned me her lovely...
View ArticleImages of Arcadia
Occasionally, I get to stand in for my dad and play cowgirl on the family ranch. I love being outside, tending to the critters. When you are doing something, you usually can show something for it. Here...
View ArticleBackyard Birds: Red-Bellied Woodpecker
This morning when I went out to feed and tend to my backyard flock, I heard the telltale sound of a woodpecker tapping the tree in our backyard. Red-bellied woodpecker. Now that the trees mostly have...
View ArticlePawPaw’s Barn
Handy husband’s grandfather is a gardener and a retired owner of a vacuum and sewing machine repair shop. He’s practical and industrious and a bit sentimental about barns and tractors. On our recent...
View ArticleSignificant Gifts are Transactions of the Heart
Every year my husband and I set a budget for spending on Christmas gifts and we try to stick to it. Throughout the year we’re thinking about what we can give each other and our family members that is...
View ArticleWinter Birds: Woodpeckers, Foggy Cranes and Cardinals
Now that the leaves have dropped, I can see all the pretty winter birds that don’t migrate south for winter. I’m still learning how to use my telephoto lens and caught these woodpeckers and cardinals...
View ArticleTime is the secret ingredient to cooking great food
I love to cook as much as I love growing vegetables and flowers in my garden. I’m probably one of the least patient people on the planet, so it’s ironic that the two things I enjoy most require time...
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