Canada Garden

Dear ISFA,  I just returned from Hitomi's class at Nature's Creative Edge in Michigan.   Thank you so much for the 2013 McK...

We celebrated our 25th anniversary this past week with Judson and Rachel and the kids.  Rachel's yellow for the front door turned out ...

Paleo Breakfast Cookies                                                                        Makes One Dozen Cookies Place in food proc...

Mark and I did quite a bit of clean-up in the garden this weekend.  Lots of branches to cut back, lots of spent plants & flowers, lots...

V went with us last night to look at the house on the lake again.  She said there's a lot of steps.  There are.  She said there are a ...

  Saturday before last, we tromped up and down the steps and over and around six lake homes.  Just looking.  Five of the six weren't ...

Judson made this fabulous spinach and mushroom risotto when he was here a couple of weeks ago.   It was awesome.  And even more so because...

. . . when she tells you to grow Magellan zinnias in addition to the Benarys you always plant every year.  She's right. . . . and wh...

  We had a grand time on this beautiful Sunday afternoon.

As seen in the last post, the hydrangea have been extraordinary this year.  Tonight though, they were so wilted!  Hot and humid and no rai...

Last year, there was a grand total of three blooms on these shrubs.  We were in the middle of that hot July drought when I was begin...

 Had a great visit with family in Michigan last month.  I miss them year-round, but especially right after a visit--it's  withdrawal! ...

Yesterday was an absolutely glorious day in the garden.  Mark and I pruned back tree limbs that have been over-shading the beds.  V and...

Seventy-eight years young today!  We're having a wonderful visit here in Michigan.  We've been on a quilt/garden tour, visited ...

 Judson, Kyle, and Mark hanging out on the new truck.  Did I mention Mark has a new truck? This Father's Day is bittersweet.  We m...

Today is Isaac's birthday.  He's 28 years young and living his dream in Denver.  If you know Isaac, you know that he is passi...

The ballerina design idea came from a class at ISFA's spring convention last year.  The roses came from V's yard.  They were absol...