Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! I love the leaf-budding energy, the promise of renewal, in this Burning Bush (Euonymus alata). May you feel some of that promise today, whatever your climate, whatever your religion. We will be sharing…

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Weekends, Gotta love'em

We’ve been in Vancouver for the weekend, where Paul had these lovely tulips waiting for me on arrival. We’ve been crazy busy with family stuff (3 of the 4 couples/families for sushi Friday night at…

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Anniversary Blooms and Belly Buttons

A year ago today, my Mother left us to our memories of her. Some of those memories bloom in my garden — so many plants she brought here from her own. The omphalodes cappadocica in…

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Five Things Friday — a Nana’s Five Things . . .

And before I start listing my Five Friday Things, a big Thank You to Grechen for mentioning my Spring Navy post today on Draped Garments and Fit and Shape . . . and Navy! — and…

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Work, Family, Life at 60+

Not only am I generally an early riser, but I’m an early riser whose home office has been expropriated by a visiting granddaughter who needed her own bed. And an early riser struggling to keep…

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