It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

One of the things that gardening and spending more time observing Nature up close has done for me is make me appreciate textures and pattern...

I'm in a shapes and patterns mood today. So just photos of lines and circles and related from around the garden, all visible from i...

Anna at Flutter and Hum brings us weekly vignettes, and this week I chose something that sort of illustrated how I feel right now: My ...

When there's not much else to look at in the winter garden... There are always shapes and patterns and textures.

I learned a little bit about the mulch pile the other day . Sure you can shell out for high-quality hardwood mulch, a homogeneous mound...

Broken bad land that is. As we took our last little exploratory hike the morning we were leaving Badlands National Park, I focused my view...

At the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone I certainly enjoyed the beauty of the spring pools themselves, but without the expansive bacte...

Monday morning (Aug 19) in Yellowstone and we're leaving the park today, but there's much to see along the way. Remember that on our...

It's taking me longer to get together the more interesting Yellowstone photos than I thought.   (A word of advice: before taking hundred...

It rained again this weekend (I'll gladly give up some weekend garden time if this continues throughout the summer!) so I was just pokin...

I know my goal as a gardener is to create a garden -- a community of plants that works artistically and as a habitat. Viewing it as a whole...

When I moved into my house over 20 years ago there were two things left in the basement: a very old refrigerator, and a metal paint bucket. ...

One of my favorite things about the garden is tree bark. I love its texture, its color. I also love the way it hosts mosses, algae, and...

Remember the other weekend when I moved the mulch pile , all 64 wheelbarrow loads of it? As I got to the bottom of the pile, I started hitt...

I water the small aloe in my kitchen window quite infrequently and very sparingly, as there are no drainage holes in its glass planter. ...

Not much to say today, except that I really like textures -- both in the garden and in the home. Here's a little look at some of th...

I've been looking at rocks quite a bit recently as I finish up my pond project. I love everything about rocks (except hauling them aroun...