Jul 21, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – July 21 Today I played hide-and-seek with a rabbit. I was in my kitchen, freezing beans from the garden, when I saw him or her scoot across the patio and into my mixed border. Naturally, I grabbed my camera…if this little bunny was going to be...
Jul 20, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – July 20 The daylilies are in bloom. To be more accurate, a different daylily is in bloom every 24-hour period, hence the name. The flowers on Hemerocallis open for one day, and then wilt. Some find this objectionable. Yesterday’s flowers hang...
Jul 18, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – July 18 We are midway through the summer, and there are two approaches to this time of year. Some people decide that they are “done” with their garden. They enjoy what they planted in May and early June, but they don’t want to place anything...
Jul 16, 2010 | growing the spirit, Inspiration, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – July 16 As I walked around the gardens with the camera today, my attention was caught by smaller interactions. I noticed how the variegated foliage of a variegated Persicaria echoes the blue and white of the Forever-and-Ever Peppermint...
Jul 15, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – July 15 We often forget to walk around our lives with the expressed purpose of communicating love and gratitude. Daily life is busy, after all, and this landscape or these people must surely know that I love it/them, right? If we turn that back...
Jul 14, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – July 14 It might seem silly to all of you, but today I felt a streak of pure, soul-robbing envy as I went online to look at the radar images of the weather. The storms that have moved up the east coast for the past 24 hours have, by in large,...
