I always love this moment in mid-January when it starts to feel like spring. Never mind that we will certainly have five more months of gray, rainy weather; there are hellebores and cyclamen and violets and snowdrops and sweet box and witch hazel and the first shoots of daffodils! Every year I have to goContinue reading “signs of spring”
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roses and other signs of June
It’s the middle of June, which for once has actually been occasionally June-like around here (although admittedly it’s raining right now). Roses are rioting and all the other early summer flowers are doing their thing. It’s an excellent time to take the macro lens out for an airing. I love my macro lens.
happy spring!
Happy first day of spring! Admittedly, it’s not looking like spring yet up in the mountains – we just crossed the pass this weekend and it was still very wintry. But at home in my garden, things are beginning to happen. Hellebores, chionodoxa, hyacinth, early daffodils and muscari are all in bloom, the pussywillow catkinsContinue reading “happy spring!”
red vines
The fence that separates our garden from the neighbors’ is well festooned with vines. Climbing hydrangea is planted on my side but tendrils crawl through holes and over the top onto their yard, while gorgeous Boston ivy weaves its way through the fence cracks from their garden into mine. It’s pretty and not invasive likeContinue reading “red vines”
feather grass
We have this gigantic ornamental grass (Stipa gigantea, if you want to know)in the front yard that has just burst into bloom. Rain has bowed the stems down so we walk through the little dangling flowers going to and from the front steps, and I was determined that the first time the sun came outContinue reading “feather grass”
Jessamyn Tuttle 