moss growing on a pedestal

thoughtful thursday: sacred moss

May 16, 2019

I’ve always kind of felt that moss is special and was interested to learn that some believe that moss is sacred. I’ve been admiring some moss growing on what I think was used as a makeshift…

Books: Dwelling and Lightly

i’m digging! new books

May 10, 2019

This week I’m digging two new books that I picked up at my local library. One is called Dwelling by Melissa Michaels. The other is Lightly by Francine Jay. I am out with a shoulder injury at the…

thoughtful thursday: obstacles

May 9, 2019

“Obstacles are nothing but in the way.” A line from one of my new favorite songs, Blind-Sided, by The Sid Hillman Quartet. I’ve enjoyed their music for a while now, and their fourth album (Round About…

may garden activities

may garden activities

May 6, 2019

Greetings, my gardening friends! We have a full month of “things to do” planned for May, following a busy April. I really messed up on the timing of some of my veggies and hoping it won’t…

heuchera (aka coral bells)

i’m digging! that summer feeling

May 3, 2019

This week I am digging the warm temperatures! I’ve moved most of our houseplants outside and they are thriving. Some of them have new pots and I even moved one of our coral bells into a…

thoughtful thursday: sea turtles, revisited

May 2, 2019

Ever since we visited the Georgia Sea Turtle Center in 2017, I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for these beings who face such tough odds. I began following the center’s Instagram account and the…

retaining wall "before"

“the wall” – it’s coming along

April 30, 2019

So…you may’ve read a couple of my posts recently (one of them here) that refer to a retaining wall that we’ve been working on for several years now, off and on. We’ve worked on and completed…

dogwood tree

i’m digging! dogwoods

April 26, 2019

This week I am digging all the dogwoods blooming everywhere! We have a few at our place and this one is my favorite. It is much prettier in person, hard to get a good photo with…

California coastline

a beautiful world

April 22, 2019

  We live in a beautiful world Yeah, we do Yeah, we do ~Coldplay, “Don’t Panic”   Some of the things I love about our beautiful world……

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