Waiting… for a wintry mix of snow and rain expected to start later tonight and continue until late Tuesday evening. I can handle snow, I can handle rain, but wintry mix? That could include ice. And …
Five and A Half Weeks Later – Bloom!
Five and a half weeks after I took the hyacinth bulbs out of the refrigerator and placed them in hyacinth vases, I have bloom. Pink, obviously. Fragrant, too.Outside, we have snow and cold. Winter …
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Snowy Places
When it is really cold outside, with temperatures in the single digits, we always wish for snow to provide some insulation for the plants.We got our wish today! It started to snow around lunch time …
Green Fields and Leaves and Blossoms of Gold
It is pleasant to think, just under the snow,That stretches so bleak and blank and cold,Are beauty and warmth that we cannot know,Green fields and leaves and blossoms of gold.-Fay Hampstead, American …
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Serenity in the Garden, Excitement in the City
We woke up this morning to see that we had finally gotten our first significant snowfall of the winter. This is a picture of the raised bed vegetable garden, taken from about the same spot I took …
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Rain or Snow?
When we have warm rainy days like today during the winter, people go around saying "if it was colder outside and this was snow, we'd really have a mess on our hands". I checked a few web sites and it …
