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 …
Our beautiful mountain ash tree has been cursed with the dreaded fire blight this year. I am so sad for it, and for us, because it was one of my favorite ornamental trees and we'd raised it since it was a little thing. Every year it was getting bigger and prettier with it's gorgeous orange …
As the song goes, "Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me..." but it does matter. To me, at least. Which is why we planted a windbreak along the back fence! We decided to go with fast growing hybrid willows, which I talked about a little in my last post, but I thought …
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