Lessons in the Dirt

I mentioned in the past two blog posts how that as I was growing up, and throughout my college years, I was under Bible teaching which reinforced what a “good” Christian was supposed to look like.  As a…

It is currently snowing … big beautiful flakes!    So pretty!    I can only remember one other time it snowed in April.  Here you can see all our little pots of Pacific Dogwood seeds.  Dogwood seeds require a period…

It’s March … and time once again to get outside and do some yard work!   Last Wednesday (March 1) the sun came out briefly while I was outside waging war on the blackberry vines.  In awe of the…

On Monday I came across the most amazing ice crystals in the garden when I went out to spread used coffee grounds.  I was “oooo’ing” and “aahhhh’ing” and taking lots of photos, and I didn’t even notice until…

It was a spur-of-the-moment decision to pop into Starbucks to get a drink.  And lo and behold, there by the front door, the “Grounds for the Garden” tub actually had a bag of used coffee grounds!   Check that…

On the forested property where hubby and I live there is a wide variety of shrubby groundcover and undergrowth:  sword ferns, deer ferns, bracken ferns, Oregon grape, salal …    … salmonberry bushes (which I call “nasty prickle bushes”…

In today’s background photo you can see the 50 Pacific Dogwood trees hubby and I are planting this fall.  Dogwood trees take a long time to grow!  Years!  According to Google, it takes 18 months (or more) just…

Throughout my daughter’s high school years she worked in the dining room of an Assisted Living place.  Here she developed many close friendships with many dear people.  This cobalt-blue jar with water plants was a gift to my…

I was sitting calmly on the back deck enjoying the sunshine when the gravel on the front drive crunched … then the doorbell rang.  Much to my surprise it was my neighbor down the street, whom I had…