Follow Friday – Poppy Dress
Today’s post features photos of a younger Isobel in our garden. Have a great weekend! What is a Follow Friday post? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme. Learn more...
View ArticleLittle Big Kitchen: Adventures in Pickling
One of our goals for this summer was to do some pickling with our friend Jacob. Specifically, jalapeno pickling. Pickled jalapenos are a fantastic thing, but the jarred kind you buy at the store just...
View ArticleMy Unruly Garden: Summer
My garden is always unruly, but this year it went above and beyond in living up to its name. Family friend and environmental scientist Jacob installed a drip irrigation system into our garden for my...
View ArticleFollow Friday: Garden, with Cat
Photos of our garden, each with a cat. Have a great weekend! What is Follow Friday? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme. Learn more about it in my FAQ. See my...
View ArticleFollow Friday: California Poppies
Every year I fill my garden with California Poppies, my favorite flower. Have a great weekend! What is Follow Friday? It’s a blog series I created a few years ago based on a Twitter meme. Learn more...
View ArticleMy Unruly Garden: Do not use much water
We were visiting my parents a few weeks ago when Isobel got into Ama’s crayon and paper stash. My mom has a whole drawer in the kitchen for art supplies. Grandma had one in her kitchen growing up, so...
View ArticleFF Green Akers
Today’s post features photos from my friends Stefanie and Dave’s yard. Have a great weekend! What is Follow Friday? It’s a Twitter meme that I have taken a couple steps further. Learn more about it...
View ArticleFF Volunteer Poppies
Today’s post features some of my very favorites–poppies! Growing them has definitely increased my quality of life. I ususally don’t pick them because they don’t last that long in a vase, but these...
View ArticleMy Unruly Garden, Early Summer 2015
I haven’t posted photos of the garden in quite awhile and I have a backlog of them. Most of these were from early summer when my garden was in full swing. Things were growing and the weather was nice...
View ArticleMy Unruly Garden: Roadside Hippie Garden
I have been meaning to share this post with you all summer! As it’s still 100 degrees, I’m still squeaking it in under the wire. Back in May I drove by a wonderful little hippie garden that I’ve...
View ArticleMy Unruly Garden: Summer Roses
I’m a little under the weather, thanks to Isobel’s cold. Here are some roses from my garden from early in the summer, before it turned brutally hot.
View ArticleScrapbook: Zozo in the Wild
When you have a 30lb giant orange lumpus, and you let him roam around in your backyard, which is overgrown after several winter storms, you must be sure to photograph it, for the contrasts in shape...
View ArticleMy Unruly Garden: Spring 2016
[pinterest] Winter is here, and in the backwards Persephone myth in which we live, the earth has sprung back to life. This is the time of year when things grow green, naturally, and unbidden, wherever...
View ArticleSnapshot 06.22.16
–I messed up my shot cycle slightly on Tuesday, giving myself only one shot instead of two, but even so I feel the difference. I’m feeling stronger, more alert, I have energy, and much, much less...
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