The wind has returned with a vengeance. We are under a severe weather warning until tomorrow at 6pm and it was the first time I've seen the weather service recommend we stay in our lower levels and avoid windows. It's probably to avoid being smashed by a tree falling in but we're lucky in that …
While I love to spend time right here in our "backyard", it feels like ages since we drove over to the coast and back. I found these photos of a road trip we took out to Oregon a few years ago as I was going through my gazillions of pictures in an attempt to whittle …
I went out this afternoon with the intention of filling the feeders and collecting seeds, which I did manage to do, but I kept getting distracted by other things. Like the maple tree which has turned from green to orange to yellow now and looks absolutely stunning. The crabapple trees also look beautiful right now, …
It's finally starting to look like autumn here at our place! I don't know why it takes longer for our trees and shrubs to start changing color compared to every where else, maybe we live in some sort of weird two week time warp, but today is the first day I sat out on the …
The sun hasn't set on our 2021 garden season yet. We still have quite a few things growing out there and new stuff is popping up every day it seems. The peas are really loving this cooler weather and have taken off again. The pumpkins are still growing new ones even though the first ones …
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