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May 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Gardening

Today we had more thunder storms.  Nothing like last week when we had all those tornadoes.  Today it was hail.  At our house it was tiny; pea sized.  Places  around the city were reporting golf ball sized  hail. I’ve added to the front flower bed. It is a Black & Blue Salvia. I liked it so [...]

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The First Day of Spring

March 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Gardening

This was the view from my front door looking out this morning: That’s not a picture I took in black and white.  It was just gray. This is from the top of the stairs looking at my front door: I really have had enough of this bad weather. Today is the official first day of [...]

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Hope

February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Gardening

On Friday morning, I walked out of my front door and found a blanket of snow on my front lawn.  It almost made me cry.  Here it is, almost March, and we STILL have snow. Yesterday, I went out, and found these in my front yard: Crocus.  They are always the first flower to arrive [...]

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Doesn’t this look fabulous?

September 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Gardening

The above picture is the front flower bed as it was last weekend.  If you go to my flicker account and look at it larger, it looks even better. It’s hard to imagine that it started as this: Our little butterfly bush space went from this: to: The begonia’s just didn’t make it in the [...]

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Peppers!

September 1st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Gardening

I can’t recall whether I told you about the small veggie garden we planted. Calling it a garden really seems too ambitious to me.  We planted a jalapeño pepper plant, a bell pepper plant and another kind of pepper plant that I’ve forgotten what kind it is.  We also planted some cilantro (my neighbor was [...]

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