Queen Ann’s Lace & Red clover

I think Queen Ann’s lace was made from white butterflies & snow flakes. One day I’m going to pull some Queen Ann’s lace & red clover from the ditch & plant it where its supposed to be. In my garden & in my vases to remind me of home. I like to think that the…

saved evidence

if you don’t send them to camp…this is evidence of my daughter & I, playing. the photo was taken about 9 years ago. I have been informed that I don’t do anything with my children. I love when I am able to come up with examples of me doing exactly that. Summer vacation is very…

My new baby pink…

Hydrangea. I found this hydrangea at leaf & Petal, on the clearance shelf, this spring. The flowers were starting to brown & it had lost most of it’s leaves. Putting it into the ground was a bit of a gamble, but I figured it was spring & maybe it would know what to do on…

Summer is

bare feet in the cool grass. Summer is hearing the whistle of a breeze, as you stretch those same toes, to touch the sky.

Evil wraps itself around my Azealas…

This invader smells like a dangerous woman…in church. Too much nickel & dime store perfume. Honeysuckle looks like a type of alien…I mean orchid. I read about this creepy vine/ boa constrictor while growing up in Vermont, my stories told me that nothing smelled sweeter, or tasted sweeter, then the Honeysuckle. I assumed it was…