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    Echinacea Spider

    While photographing our first echinacea, a caught a glimpse of the tiniest little legs ever… As I moved from left to right, squatted and stood up, played with macro and good ol’ zoom, this little lady slowly moved from the top of her petal to the bottom of her petal…

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    Songs of Summer

    I plant sweet corn not only because I adore the taste of it…but because I am also in love with the way the wind dances through its leaves, singing its beautiful songs of summer…

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    The Flowering Carrot

    I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.~Phyllis Theroux Wishing you all a lovely weekend full of creation!

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    Drip Irrigation

    After much procrastination, we have finally purchased all of the necessary items and tools to install drip irrigation in our front and back yards.  We purchased everything yesterday morning and Tool Lady spent most of the day running it through all the beds in the front yard while I pulled…

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    Garden Views…From the Rooftop

    With summer well on its way, the days have been long and hot and smokey.  I finally got up on the roof yesterday to hook up our swamp cooler and decided to bring my camera with me to get a birds eye view of our yard. Now, here’s a little…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    We have never before had so much green happening in our yard at this time of year!  I think part of the reason is our exceptionally warm winter and spring and part of it is all the seed starting we did this spring under our grow lights.  It is very…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    It’s been a while since I’ve posted pics of strictly things in the garden that bring me joy, but it’s about that time again 🙂  Here a couple of things that have brought me joy over the past week… Whatever you’re doing this week, I hope it brings you joy!…