After 14 springs in Washington state, I guess I don’t have to go to the tulip fields every April. Fortunately, Mia and I saw some color in the beds along Mount Vernon’s newish Skagit River Walk. Join the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop! Powered by Linky Tools Click here to enter your link and view this Linky ToolsContinue reading “Girls like flowers”
Category Archives: gardening
Cocoons: My murderous obsession
If you walked onto your back porch at dusk and were swarmed with butterflies, you’d probably smile and say, “How magical.” If a ladybug crawled across your steering wheel, you might take its picture and post a blog about it. Swap out the butterflies and ladybugs for moths and beetles, though, and your response wouldContinue reading “Cocoons: My murderous obsession”
What’s to eat?
I became a vegetarian in 2000, and now I feel bad about eating bananas. I’m reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I suggested it to my book club after we read a dystopian downer called The Windup Girl, which had something to do with food being an endangered species controlled by Calorie Companies. I didn’t care forContinue reading “What’s to eat?”
My flagging cedar
We have a long driveway. One of my favorite features about my house (literally, one of my favorite things, I’ve said it out loud more than a few times) is that the branches of two cedar trees on either side of the driveway converge to create a canopy over the driveway. This creates shade, coolingContinue reading “My flagging cedar”
Them apples
An appropriate topic for this Washington-based blog, no? I’m eating apples again, now that my TMJ has stabilized. It started with a visit to the Olympia farmer’s market in August, when some dude sliced off a bit of a Ginger Gold and handed it to me. Delicious! I bought two. Buying apples can be frustratingContinue reading “Them apples”
Flowers my mom planted
Spit Bugs
I’ve noticed a foamy white substance on the stems of my roses and also the blackberries in the backyard. I asked my mother, a prolific gardener, and Rob’s mother, who has lived in this region her whole life, and yet it was Rob who had instant recognition, “Spit bugs!” he said. “There’s a bug inContinue reading “Spit Bugs”
And rain will make the flowers grow
Spectacular. We’re looking at another stormy weekend. I do have to get outside at one point, though, to plant the shrubs I found it necessary to mail-order from Ohio. My compulsive online shopping is a story for another time. Rob likes to fall asleep listening to audio books. Which, of course, means he rarely isContinue reading “And rain will make the flowers grow”
The primary concern is the bulb
I’d lived in Washington and worked for a small newspaper about three weeks when my editor asked me if I would cover the first daffodil picking. “You have boots, right?” Thinking she meant steel-toe construction boots, and not rubber barn/field boots, I said yes. With such a high turnover among reporters, it’s smart to sendContinue reading “The primary concern is the bulb”
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