While we are struggling to deal with the heat and humidity of summer, I can’t help but think of the flowers that appeared a month or so ago in the waning days of Spring.  I just love the photo above.  It shows the drama of garlic flowers emerging! We have a couple of rose bushes […]

I’ve been hovering around drafting this weed post for so long that these weeds have actually moved on to whatever their next stage in life is as they gear up for summer.  However, I still thought some early stage weed photos might put flowers in perspective.  But weeds aren’t too bad when viewed through my […]

Today, we celebrated Mother’s Day.  There are no words that can begin to express the amount of love and nurturing a mother will shower over her children.  I couldn’t grasp this concept until I became a mother myself.  My mom–also known as Super Mom–spent ALL her time, and any of her spare time, making sure […]

Every week, a new wave of Spring flowers emerge.  These bleeding hearts above are a lovely sight.  They are short-lived, which is a bummer, but their lives are longer than other plants that get eaten by the local deer.  Bleeding hearts are deer resistant! These hostas are making their way out of the ground.  Lucky […]