Category: Alabama

the story about how the spider caught a rainbow

not really a story. i made her (spider) mad. I took the water spritzer for my plants…& i washed her web for her. doesn’t it look grand? the droplets caught light & shattered it into a rainbow. i’m so lucky that she, my halloween spider decorator, decided to build her web above my front door….

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my backyard creek

reflecting color from everywhere. stunning. There are fish in it too. We watched them swim & in some places, the water is two & a half feet deep. The creek changed shape with the crazy down pours & flash flooding early this summer, changed it so that we have a bit of a natural pool.

he holds my flowers

i took my ridiculous, but necessary, walker outside to see my gardens. I’d been outside only one other time since June 24th & saw that without my attention, things went to crap. kinda like my hip bones. however, today was a small victory. I cut my own flowers, that means my bones have knitted themselves…

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how does your garden fade

this morning was cold (for Alabama) this morning. This pepper is from last fall, but I cant wait for our leaves & veggies to change colors. Right now, we’ve had little rain, our leaves are fading to yellow & falling far faster then they should.

a thousand suns

Birmingham Botanical Gardens this past spring. photo by Maggie