<<Featured Image: Today’s featured image is a picture of some of my beautiful tomatoes, lined up on the windowsill above our kitchen sink. These are Black Krims, Early Girls, Big Rainbows, and Sweet 100’s, plus volunteer cherry tomatoes. The tomatoes have decided to start producing all at once!>> This past week we have had someContinue reading “COOLING OFF”
Category Archives: Summer
MIGRATION
It’s that time of year again when we begin the slow, inexorable migration from summer into fall. The picture above of a hosta leaf aptly shows this migration in the colors going from vibrant green to dried-up brown. This is always a sad time for me because summer is my favorite season. As you probablyContinue reading “MIGRATION”
WINDING DOWN
<<Featured Image: This week’s featured image is a picture of one of the Zinnias that I planted out in the garden to attract bees. It has finally gotten big, and is doing its job well.>> As we come to the end of August, summer is starting to wind down. I have noticed how dark itContinue reading “WINDING DOWN”
DOG DAYS
<<FEATURED IMAGE: A few days ago, Linda was out front watering the flowers and she spotted this guy on a coneflower. I believe it is the same little fellow that I saw on the Welcome mat a couple weeks ago.>> While I was out there with Linda I got this short video of some beesContinue reading “DOG DAYS”
WHAT’S GOING ON?
<<Featured Image: This picture from 2017 shows the harvest out of the garden on August 9th. I only featured this picture so that you could see how meager this year’s harvest has turned out so far.>> GARDEN UPDATE I’m not sure 100% what is going on, but the plants out in the garden are notContinue reading “WHAT’S GOING ON?”
Southerner in the Northwest 