For the last several years, Dave at The Home Garden has been hosting The Fall Color Project: a meme to track the progress of peak fall foliage color. And every year, I have trouble figuring out the perfect time to do my post. This autumn, I think we’re lucky to have any fall color, after[...]
I love green peas. Big fat English shelling peas. Unfortunately the birds love the young sprouts and I have tried all sorts of tricks to keep them off my little crop. This year I finally listened to my father’s advice and built a scarecrow.
I knew my Ribes sanguineum was crying out to be photographed. A siren song really. She beckoned and seduced me away from the solitude of a day indoors, her charms naked and ripe for the camera. But where to start exploring this beauty?
“Photograph silence” he asked ? OK, I’ll give it a try: ———– I saw the silence slip away as the dawn, rushed in effortlessly; revealing the daffodils mute; in awe of the wondering sparrow’s “twee… twee …eeet ?” now silent. again. ———
Dry Betty is a tough gal, a little yellowed from years spent in the sun, but stoic about her position in life—which is affixed to a tree stake waiting for rain. Dry Betty is the name I have given my rain gauge because where I live, dry is her most frequent condition. Although she is[...]