The first capture of the season

Yesterday I showed you my first casualty of the overwintering season: a favorite plant that appears to have died due to underwatering.


Today I show you the first capture of the season. No, it's not a makeshift hamster cage, although it looks a bit like that.

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First casualty of the season

When overwintering so many plants indoors (in garage or basement), there are always some that don't make it through to spring.


My first casualty of this winter is unfortunately a plant that I was very excited about, and so was babying it quite a bit -- until I wasn't.


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Winter Arrives

This weekend brought us our first real proof of winter in St. Louis, mild temperatures driven out as the Arctic air pushed in.


I did not venture outdoors into the 10ºF (-12ºC) garden, but instead chose to use the long lens to show you what these temperatures mean to me from indoors. The water barrel in the front yard has a birdbath heater in it so stays iceless -- the edge gets so frosty though!


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Now available...

I'm happy to report that my Whorn stools/tables are now available for purchase!


Discounted introductory pricing applies -- more info at www.nimblemill.com


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Sunrise

We had a fantastic sunrise yesterday morning, so I thought I'd share it with you.


Not much that I need to say about it, is there?


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What's going on here?

My garage floor was covered by a significant pile of sturdy leaves yesterday:


What's going on here?


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Cuttings

One of the ways that I continue gardening over the long winter months is through cuttings. It's one of my overwintering strategies for tender plants: take cuttings and root them instead of trying to overwinter the entire (sometimes large) plant.


That's what I've been doing with this trio of cuttings from a beautiful tropical that I got on sale late this summer (Aerva sanguinolenta). Since I wasn't sure how it would fare spending the winter in the garage, I decided to see if prunings would root in water. If they did I would have a "backup" plant or two come spring.


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Branches and Birds

This was going to be a photo essay on branches, the sunlight hitting them in just the right way the other morning, revealing so much texture, depth, and color.


But I have a bird feeder underneath these branches, and the birds kept getting in the way of my branch photos.

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First fire means mantises

The first fireplace fire we have each year has come to mean something different to me than to most people who light the logs at this time of year.


It means an unexpected -- well, at least for the first couple of years -- chance to connect with the garden again, or at least its wildlife.


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