We’re coming up on 17 years in this house. How that happened I have no idea, but one mark of the passage of time here has been the coming and going of trees. For many… [Continue Reading]
A LONG WEEKEND, A TREE IN BLOOM
Did you all have a great long weekend (at least my U.S. readers who celebrated Memorial Day)? I love long weekends (well, who doesn’t?) but my goodness, they are so exhausting. Saturday was our big… [Continue Reading]
Whoosh! There goes the weekend
Sometimes when I disappear from the blog for more than a few days it’s because I have nothing to write about and I never want to bore you. But other times it’s because I’m so… [Continue Reading]
Big snow, big mess
Last week Tuesday we got a dumping of snow the likes of which we’ve not seen for years around here. It wasn’t so much the quantity—a healthy 12 inches at least, but probably more… [Continue Reading]
The lone flowering tree
We only have one flowering tree in the yard. It’s a Serviceberry, which is a lovely, tough-as-nails small tree or large shrub. It’s commonly seen around here in its multi-trunked form in parking lots, hellstrips… [Continue Reading]