Posts under ‘garden’

Today is wet and chilly, so to brighten things up I have a couple of photos from earlier this week. Definitely not gray and glum! In keeping with this month’s theme of special days, let’s all wish Nick a happy birthday! His present? A trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art to see the Austrian […]

Today is my house’s birthday, as my house anyway. Much like a stray cat, I don’t really know when its birthday is, though I do know my house is considerably older than I am. We were told it was built in the 1930s, at least the first part, but it doesn’t show up on the […]

It’s spring outside my office. Even inside my office it isn’t so bad, now that I can have the window open most of the time. There are some advantages to being in a seventy-year-old building – the windows actually open. It’s a good year for anemones. They’ve spread into the lawn too. I’m very fond […]

Apparently it really is spring now. It was sunny this morning, so I went to check on the cute little crocus. It has many friends now. On my way to the crocus patch, this was the first thing I saw. I had to hunt a bit for its likely companion in the front bed – […]

The snowdrops expand. And they’re no longer buried in snow. It was very warm here on Friday. As we were loading the car to head to Buffalo, I predicted that the first crocuses would be up by the time we got back. Nick and I were in Buffalo to judge a regional SCA art competition […]

First, spring. The giant snowpile next to the sidewalk has melted enough to reveal snowdrops. February is definitely over, and there’s a possibility of spring arriving eventually. I expect at least one more big snow, though. Now, on to string. This arrived last week from KnitPicks. It’s worsted weight Wool of the Andes in the […]

Or rather, socks and ice, with a digression on birds, but that didn’t sound as titular. You remember the never-ending Jaywalker socks? They’re done, and I can model them as long as I tug them firmly onto my feet. I didn’t think they would fit my mother – very disappointing, as I chose the yarn […]

Oh, wow! I actually have enough people with questions that I can do a Q & A session! Laura: I had been wondering what you’d do about dyeing once the sun heads south for the winter. Stove? The variegated and multicolored ones will go in the oven instead of the solar oven. I use the […]

The front flowerbed is pink right now. Extremely pink. And in interesting shapes, even. This is not a color I normally associate with the end of August. Isn’t this supposed to be harvest season – golden sweetcorn picked this morning (straight from the Amish market), orange canteloupe (same source), red tomatoes still warm from the […]