Ranunculus!

There are some flowers that means spring to me more than others. Ranunculus. They are like sweet layered cakes of promise of a brighter more colorful time to come. I greet them with pleasure and I am thankful that days are finally longer, the birds are singing and it is time to get out of the wool socks and step into some sandals. And this …

Backyard project

A sunny place like this is for humans so now all the bushes are gone and all the wild plants of raspberry moved to another spot in the garden. What to do now? I don’t really know. Digging is meditation so time will tell.

Spring! You are wanted!

  Gardensituation: Ice cold winds and a frozen brown cake of oakleaves that refuse to give in to my rake. I love the natural colors of earth but NOW I need color. No more white snow, no more brown dirt, no more grey melted snow/asphaltmix. I need color! Solution: A sunday night drawing! Keeps the spirit up a little longer in the waiting for the …