Tag Archives: gardens
Stormy Night Letter
Dear Family, Interesting night. Huge storm came over Dane County. We didn’t get the worst of it. Tennis ball size hail hit a lot of areas. We went to the neighbor’s house to ride out the storm. Power went out … Continue reading
Filed under 2011
Garden Post-mortum
I have a piece of paper on the wall near my desk at work on which I printed photographs showing four views of our flower garden from last year. (See a portion of one of them above.) The pictures were … Continue reading
Filed under 2010
The Garden of Weedin’
One of my favorite sayings is, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” According to Wikipedia, a sometimes reliable source, the saying is attributed to ”Saint Bernard of Clairvaux who wrote, “L’enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et … Continue reading
Filed under 2010
For the Bird(s)
In our yard we have a large vegetable garden and a not as large flower garden. The flower garden has walkways covered in wood chips from tree branches that were taken down a few years ago and chipped for just … Continue reading
Filed under 2010
Garden Party
The unusually warm weather we’ve had recently has been a real treat. Farmers who couldn’t do the field work they wanted to do last fall because of the rain that turned too quickly into snow were able to play catch-up, … Continue reading
Filed under 2010