Tag: garden

  • Sowing Seeds

    Sowing Seeds

      Don’t forget! This evening, over on my channel, I’ll be chatting live at 7:30 pm EST. I’ve been told the most reliable way to remember is to click the notification bell when you subscribe to the channel. Up to you – if you follow that link you will find all the older videos I’ve…

  • Short Rambles

    Short Rambles

    I would like to have a day off in April. If all goes to plan, Sunday is that day. It’s been a long, long month and we still have a third of it to go. Not that it’s been uneventful! We signed on the house Wednesday. I’m devoting my art sales money for the rest…

  • Garden Battle

    Garden Battle

    So I was inspired by a giant slug…   Sometimes I think it would be fun to create an illustrate a children’s book. And then I come back to my sanity. It’s not the art. It’s the story! I don’t know that I could tell that level of story. But thank you, John, for the…

  • How Does Your Garden Grow?

    How Does Your Garden Grow?

    I have a little garden now. But in the past I’ve had big ones – helped my parents with a market garden, in fact. So I wrote up a brief overview of gardening for fun and food, and you’ll find it over at According to Hoyt.  And now I shall return to my labors. We’re…

  • Tiny Garden, Big Yields

    Tiny Garden, Big Yields

    For the last couple of years – and probably for the next 2-4 years – I’ve had a tiny garden. This is a change from big gardens most of my life. When I was in highschool and worked for a landscaping business I had a flower garden that would make people stop to exclaim over…

  • Limenitis arthemis

    Limenitis arthemis

    You can find more information about this beautiful Red Spotted Purple butterfly here, and it is a mimic of the toxic Pipevine Swallowtail, Battus philenor. I can tell you that the iridescent blues on the wings have to be seen to be truly appreciated. Enjoy!

  • Taking a Deep Breath

    Taking a Deep Breath

    It’s been a long week, and yesterday was tiring. Since David Pascoe was good enough to take today’s Mad Genius Club post with the continuation of his story (go read it, it’s good) then I am free to take a deep breath, smell the flowers, and come back tomorrow renewed and refreshed. Sorry for the…

  • Weary and Worn, yet still Flying
  • Excitement and Raspberries

    It’s been an interesting day… very quiet at the moment, as the kids are off at a friend’s party. But about 10 am, Dad came in and announced that the guy with the excavator was coming this afternoon to clean the farm lane, the pad for the second greenhouse, and the pad for the shops.…

  • Whose Mouth First Puckered?

    This photo was taken last year, but I was talking to Dad about Rhubarb yesterday and it got me thinking. Ever since I was little, I have been fascinated with wild edible foods. I learned what I could eat, what I wanted to eat (not always the same thing!) and how to safely identify those…