Looks like I picked a good color scheme for the Celtic letter F, as it matches with one (or more) of the froggies. You may or may not know it, but I collect frogs. They are zen masters of transformation, and they sing so pretty. I’ve already heard spring peepers on a warmer day we…
Category: A2Z 2025
A2Z 2025 — Day 5 — Echinacea and Euonymous
Euonymous Euonymous grows in the front of the house, one in front of each window and one in between the windows. It’s a lush plant that grows very well and needs regular pruning. It’s green until fall, when its leaves turn red like you see in the pic, which was taken at the end of…
A2Z 2025 — Day 4 — Doves
Doves Mourning doves are plentiful in my yard. I wrote a poem on them awhile back. you may call them turtle doves; monogamous pairsyet menage a trois at times, during courtship gameswhen wings whistle on take-off, flying fast and straightthey live thirty years or more and stay through seasonstheir streamlined yet pudgy forms, of silk,…
A2Z 2025 — Day 3 Cottonwood Catkins and Cosmos
Cottonwood Catkins There were no cottonwood trees growing here when we moved here in 2011. We had some of what we thought were sycamore trees in pots and planted them. Both turned out to be cottonwood. They’ve grown very quickly. This pic was taken on 032925, where the catkins are out. Some people don’t like…
A2Z 2025 — Day 2 — Blackberries and Bluebirds
Blackberries Along the yard and out in the back there are hundreds of blackberry bushes and thousands of berries that grow and ripen on them. They grow on their own and can be severely pruned but come right back. The pathways have to be cleared of them regularly or the paths become unpassable. I usually…
A2Z 2025 — Day 1 — Angel and Arborvitae
Angel I saw the angel at the garden shop and knew I wanted her in the yard. Made of concrete, I needed help loading her into the trunk of the car. Underestimating her weight and overestimating my strength, when I lifted her off of the wheelbarrow? wagon? to set on the back patio, I dropped…
A2Z 2025 Theme Reveal!
After Women Music March 2025 I wondered whether I’d have the oomph to do A-to-Z Challenge 2025. It’s been a few years since participating in it. When Anne Nydam asked me if I would be doing it this year, the seed was planted. I’ve considered a few different themes and decided to KISS (keep it…
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