A grateful heart: My favorite month is finally here!
I can’t be the only one feeling a bit blind sided by the date. June 1? How did we get almost halfway …
Sun lovers
It felt like a near-death experience. Me. Turbo kickboxing after eight months away. Burning chest, raspy breathing, nausea. And my chipper instructor …
Fixing my tomato mistakes
There are few things I like better about summer than sweet, ripe tomatoes from the garden. In fact, I’ve cultivated quite the …
Spring, in full burst
Maybe it was too much Alice and Wonderland as a kid, but I can’t help anthropomorphizing flowers. Like this hydrangea, which looks …
Becoming a crazy bird lady
The sun is shining on a chilly spring day. A breeze cuts through tall grasses as 15-year-old me tromps through the wetlands …
Peppermint oil: A rather useless squirrel deterrent
Damn squirrels have dug up the coleus plants in the three bottom pots repeatedly! I curse caterpillars aloud. I’ve been known to …
13 things my spring gardener self needs to know
The holy grail of gardening. As the summer gardening season fades away, I’ve got a bone to pick with myself for the …
#100HappyDays: The $10,000 tomato
18 ounces of tomato goodness, July 5, 2014. “Honeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy, LOOK!” I exclaim, holding up a tomato the size of my head. (Well, …
#100HappyDays: Hydrangeas in bloom
Pink hydrangeas in bloom, July 1, 2014. I might be risking “crazy plant lady” status what with how much time I’ve been …
#100HappyDays: First Caprese salad of the season
First Caprese salad of the season, June 29, 2014. Beefsteak tomatoes pulled from the garden + basil snipped from the front porch …