Wednesday's Child

For many, many years I had beautifully manicured nails with dark red polish. As you can see that is not true now. I stopped having the pol...

So many days speeding by. Just getting the laundry done and food on the table is a BIG deal around here this summer. We had guacamole and ...

The shorter work days just mean shoving 9 hours of work into 7. At 2:30 my boss reminds me of all the watering I need to get done, the orde...

I took my camera to work today to take a picture of the amazing blue and white Passion flower on a plant in the walkway. No plant. Some th...

Here's a picture of our little yard shed with it's new green door. Lovely green. I matched it to the leaves on our rhododendron. ...

Today I will continue to "do battle" with weeds and grass in my perennial beds. Yesterday I dug everything I could manage by myse...

I'm finding less time for my creative fabric and paper play but more time for other creative pursuits like arranging flowers in pretty c...

Still here. Been working. Also been working in the garden here at home. I planted my boxes out front and the ones on the garden shed. Al...

When I purchased this at a half price, end of season, plant sale in September I had no idea it was called Pigsqueak. A Bergenia. Big leave...

I had such high hopes for this but perhaps I didn't think it through enough. The quilted image seemed to be the harder to achieve and i...

Yesterday, at around 2:30, after the delivery truck experienced some difficulties, we pulled off 9 carts of hanging baskets, perennials, ger...

My Painter's Key mentioned that some author thinks happiness is over rated. This author believes that unhappiness, sadness, morose thin...

Today I wore shorts to work. Men's cargo shorts. It was hot and sunny at work and I spent most of my day watering in the greenhouse or...

I published this once and the second time is never as "fresh", so bear with me. this is the back stoop where I get my suntan. I ...

I bought a number of things at a fall plant sale (half price) and planted them into the newly de-weeded front bed. Now they are coming up a...

My clivia finally bloomed. Not orange as I expected but a lovely yellow tinged with peach. I'm now wondering if this is one of the exp...

We finally have a truck. We had been wanting a small pick up for nearly as long as we had been thinking about a family dog. Now we have bo...

That's how many times I've written to you. Sometimes posting is the very best part of my day. Sometimes it's the time when I ...

The Maine Spring -first in the 16 years I have lived here- is absolutely glorious. Sun shining and blue skies. In the 60's each day. I...

Worked Mother's Day weekend. Everyone in town must have gotten Mom something floral. We were very busy. And today, Monday, the mom...