Masybe this year I'll actually manage to keep this up to date... but I'm not holding my breath. I expanded the flower border last year & this is the 1st spring for the new section. I'm nervous about how well it will have overwintered which is ridiculous because I planted things I know - many of them transplants from other sections of the garden. It will be FINE.

We had a more traditional winter - a good 2 months of consistant snow cover & the border was heavily mulched with...

No other blog entry since May 2012?

Well, here i am on the front page.

I had to wear long handles today. It must be 45F now!

I know. Sometimes a little pugnacity is welcomed. I'm not bitching about my opportunistic helper. Pushed it all out of my mind.

Being dogpiled? I expect it from Free...

Well I have downsized by 3/4 of my belongings.

Thanks to Sandy I have moved from the east coast, up scale, (absolutely needing a car for transportation) an affluent rural paradise to the west coast, low scale, grunge, an art filled experiment of low cost living without a car.

Will it be a revalation? Will it free me of social pressures which I usually ignore? Will it free me of conventions that I thought the norm.

I have plenty of rain coats, but I now...

said this video does not exist.

Go to any" Chasing ice trailer". It is incredable.

People come out of the movie reeling.]