Archive for September, 2009
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Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
Last weekend was a great one for gardening. I finally managed to dig the potatoes and onions.
I have not grown potatoes before this year although my Dad planted enough to feed his six kids for most of the winter. Digging the potatoes brought with it the scent of the [...]
East River
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
My Evening Retreat, John’s Lake
The next stop on my Still Can’t Believe I’m Getting Paid for Gardening vacation took me to a quiet little lake cabin, East River.
The term, East River, makes no sense. Unless, of course, you were unfortunate enough to be born and raised in South Dakota, [...]
Sitting Around
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I’ve been here, in my mom’s room in the nursing home since Saturday afternoon. I got here about 4pm Saturday. It’s now about 7 am Monday morning. I didn’t plan to stay this long, but as it happens, one of my sisters hurt her leg by stepping into a hole. [...]
Anemone hupehensis and sunflowers
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
Kit Cats & Migrating Monarchs
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Met this impressive Monarch Butterfly in Hazel’s Zinnia Garden. Her wing span was enormous.
Migrating Monarch Butterfly snacking on the Zinnias
Ten days ago I filled my car with the tools of the trade, squeezed Bad Dog into the passengers seat and off we went on my first ever working vacation.
‘Been [...]
Grand Opening
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
About three years ago, I was at a neighbor’s garage sale and happened to see that she had a huge stand of plumeria. I bought some chairs and, as a bonus, she snapped off three branches from among her plants. She said she wasn’t sure what color they were, maybe [...]
The belly of a bird, twinings, and gall wasps
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
This is an acorn plum gall which seems to be trying to masquerade as a red acorn. The wasp responsible for this gall is thousands of years old and according to information from the Michigan Entomology Society has been found in fossilized form in the La Brea Tar Pits of [...]
Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Welcome to Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day as hosted by May Dreams Garden. Head on over, following the link, and take a look at what’s blooming all over the place.
You want your “one world”? Look in the garden.
I’ve missed the last two bloom days because of being busy, and being mad [...]
September 11, 2001, Remembering
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Dear Friends,
Eight years ago, our world changed. Or, more precisely, our perception of the world changed. Things…Important Things…didn’t change. Honor, Love, Joy, Courtesy, Kindness, Generosity, Courage…didn’t change.
But, that day, Sorrow, Grief and Fear reigned supreme. We shared that experience, those feelings, and in sharing them, we came together. It changed [...]
Kevin McCarthy
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
In 2006, I signed up to commemorate one of the lives of the people who lost their life on September 11, 2001. I knew it would be hard , or so I thought. It was hard, and easy. It’s not gotten any easier since then.
I’d started off concentrating on the [...]
Cecilia E. Richard
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Here is a face of a woman exactly my age. We had a lot in common, in fact, and there were some differences. She was one of seven children, I of five. She was the youngest child…I was the oldest. She worked at the Pentagon.. I worked at a school.
And [...]
Patricia Malia Colodner
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
This is the hardest of the tributes to write. It’s hard because…I can’t find Patricia. I know where she worked, and where she died, and her age….and that is all I have been able to find. Unlike Kevin and Cecilia…she is a cypher. Did she have a large family, or [...]
Patricia Malia Colodner
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
This is the hardest of the tributes to write. It’s hard because…I can’t find Patricia. I know where she worked, and where she died, and her age….and that is all I have been able to find. Unlike Kevin and Cecilia…she is a cypher. Did she have a large family, or [...]
Watermelon Pickles
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
You gotta be quick. When Levo’s melons are ripe, it’s a free-for-all, kind of like Filene’s Basement. Perhaps it’s a secret in the soil. Or, maybe it’s just good old-fashioned know-how. Whatever the case, when Levo turns the lights on at his stand, summer is officially over and the [...]
Herbs, and Growing Them
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Houston has a lot going for it, especially if you’re a gardener. If you like growing things, and it rains enough, I sometimes think you could probably stick a broomstick in the ground and get a tree in five years. It makes growing most things something so easy to do [...]
The Awesome Easy Bloom [Product Review]
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Hmmm…. The pinks I planted in early springtime but when did I plant this greenie?
That’s actually a trick question. The short answer is 24 hours ago. First I planted it here. And, then I planted it there. I’ve been moving this little gadget back and forth amongst the gardens [...]
Seeboomook Lake, Maine - Labor Day Weekend
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
Swan Farm in the glow of the campfire
Labor Day heralds the official end of summer and the last vacation summer weekend. In New England, even the upper part of Maine, the weather was perfect. Daytime temperatures at the family compound were around 70 F with night temperatures dipping into the [...]
Cleanin’ Up
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
A couple of weeks ago, ‘Pup went into work on a Saturday afternoon. He does that sometimes when he’s got a project that needs finishing, or because he’s had a doctor’s appointment earlier that week and wants to make up some hours. He doesn’t have to do it, but he [...]
Strolling the Tour de Suds
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
This week’s Friday Afternoon [Hiking] Club involved a 4 hour walk in my favorite direction: downhill!
Through a Sunflower meadow:
Along a rocky trail, where brightly blooming purple Asters speckle the landscape:
Wildflowers exert a grand effort, feeling the competition on all sides. Suddenly everyone is in the mood to put on [...]
At My Mother’s House
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
My mother’s Crepe Myrtle is blooming, a soft baby pink that glows in the early morning light. I wish she were home to see it.
You’ll note, she does not participate in Crepe Murder by pruning it to death, and still gets beautiful blooms.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
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An Occasion of Temptation and Chucky the Wonderdog
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I should know better than to go grocery shopping on an empty stomach (as I did, last night) and I should know better than to go shopping online when there is any money at all in my PayPal account. I should know better, because sure as shootin’, I’m going to [...]
Today’s blooms
Submitted by Ledge and Gardens Blog
It is September and how did that happen so fast? School has started and the rudbeckia are well in tune with the school buses I am seeing on the roads these days. School bus yellow…what can one say. It is a color with which to contend but this is [...]
The Price of a Pet
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
All three of our pets are rescues of some kind. Butch was adopted by my pa-in-law, and was passed on to us, rather than put back into a shelter to face an uncertain…or perhaps all too certain…. future. Charles, AKA Chucky the Wonderdog, was adopted by us from a shelter, [...]
Yearly Conundrum
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
Every year it’s the same. We try to figure out something to get my pa-in-law for Christmas, and every year we start asking him what he might want or need, and every year………he buys it for himself.
And yes, I often start Christmas shopping this early, especially if, as I will [...]
Dried Green Tomatoes
Submitted by High Altitude Gardening Blog
Took a walk through the Veggie Garden of Wunx last night.
‘Twas the Intermittent Meeting of the Ladies Irregular Supper Club and I was in attendance in body, if not in mind. I’d had a rough day though it was rapidly improving since I discovered her husband’s wine cellar and [...]
