Coasting Along

This is the time of year when my chrysanthemums go nuts, and I just love it. I discovered a few years ago that mums do really well in our so...

I really don't mind winter, especially Virginia winter, which is "winter lite" compared to other places I've lived (Idaho,...

(Sounds fancier in French.) I cooked up a whole bunch of things the week before my surgery, and we're still digging down to the bottom o...

Just a couple little things that are coming up unexpectedly in my garden... I remember throwing a couple packets of seeds on the flowerbeds ...

Just a few little garden pictures. Look at this mutant Siamese-twin daisy! One of the few items the previous owners did not pluck out of the...

I've been feeling a desire to do some kind of needlework--it's been a couple of years since I've stitched anything--so last nigh...

I finally got my car cleaned out, and it gave me an idea...you know how people nowadays are taking "staycations" where they stay h...

We're having a lovely, warm (70 degrees-ish) day here today, with spring in the air. The daffodil and narcissus bulbs I planted in Novem...

Sunflowers are such a great late summer flower. This one came up all on its own, from a seed dropped by a bird or squirrel making his getawa...

I haven't had a chance to look for red stuff today, but here's a picture I've been meaning to share: This is a gerbera daisy fro...

Heh heh. Well, I haven't really been that lazy, but it's most assuredly summer mode around here. I've been scrapping a ton, too ...

I was gazing at a bouquet of roses I clipped and set on the coffee table yesterday, and it got me to thinking about my wedding bouquet. Or m...

Another tiny bouquet from the garden, arranged in a mini teacup I've had since I was a child. I'm addicted to tiny bouquets! And now...

I came downstairs and pulled up the living room blinds this morning, and who should be looking right at me from one of my hanging baskets? C...

If there's anything more fun than picking flowers and making tiny bouquets, I don't know what it could be. I have a bunch of tiny bo...

My friend Cheryl gave me this little pitcher last week, and it's the perfect size and color to hold the tallest of my johnny-jump-ups, p...