Category: Black thumb or Green thumb

This is wild hydrangea

We planted it last year along with regular white hydrangea. We call them “Will’s Flowers” because a beautiful child we knew was dying. He was in the hospital when we planted them & I sat in the dirt, with dirty tears pouring down my face. I was thinking mostly of his mother, my friend. As…

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My fruit & veggies

Fruits that we have, strawberries, blueberries, grapes, peaches & lemons. Veggies we are growing, onion, yellow squash, zucchini, sweet red pepper, yellow pepper, banana pepper, sugar snap peas, cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes, big tomatoes (a million) Herbs, yellow thyme, basil, oregano, sage, rosemary I’ve had my strawberries for five years & have never been able…

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Levon with a pink Calla lily

Levon likes his money, he makes a lot they say. Spends his days countin’ in a garage by the motorway.-Sir Elton John. My favorite song still, & can you imagine how many songs have come & gone through my life? Some stuck, none better then this one though. He wrote that before I was born,…

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Geraniums to be

I had four plants last year, planting two per big pot. In the fall I found a plastic black bucket (maybe a big bush came in?) and stuffed those four geraniums in that one bucket & put it on the back deck up against the house. Never covered it during a frost. Never thought much…

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walking on the stars

This tree is beautiful & when the blossoms fall, they are still white & remain so for far longer then one would think. I’m glad I have some that someone planted & some that the birds may have planted. I just don’t know its name. Surprise