We’ve been having spectacular pre-spring weather! I’m catching up on my vitamin D with all this sunshine. Morning temps have dropped to the mid-20′s. The Master Gardeners do a monthly field trip to wholesale nurseries. We drove south of Portland to the Willsonville / Aurora area — a hot bed of specialty agriculture (tulips, roses, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Elsewhere’
Out and Afield
Posted in Excursions, garden, tagged Elsewhere, flowers, garden on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
End of Summer Cleanup
Posted in garden, tagged Elsewhere, garden on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s time to start battening down the hatches. First on my list was checking the bird houses to see if they’d been used and clean up anything left inside. Yep, we got a nest in here! I’m not sure this was ever occupied with chicks but there was lots of coming and going. I had [...]
Morning Visitors
Posted in garden, tagged Elsewhere, garden on September 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I like to look out my bedroom window when I first get up. It’s a ritual of getting acquainted with the day before it’s gotten used to itself. It’s still quiet and tinged with the night’s leaving. So imagine my surprise when I spy this pair of raccoons intent on their business. I know they [...]
Amature Astronomy
Posted in Sky, Uncategorized, tagged Elsewhere, Sky on September 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Okay, I can’t seem to find any information as to which planet it is that’s so bright these days. The full moon has been very bright and has company to boot. It’s not easy to photograph with my pedestrian camera. The exposure was so long to catch the light that wiggles were inevitable. Plus, the [...]
A very artful garden
Posted in Excursions, garden, Travel, tagged Elsewhere, garden, Travel on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry, I’ve been distracted with all sorts of stuff and have neglected my blog duties. While I was in the Bay Area my friend Rita and I visited a lovely (and very quirky) sculpture garden in Berkeley based on a newspaper article. A hallmark of the landscape is the novel use of everyday things — [...]
County Fair
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Elsewhere on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s summer without a fair? Parking at large events is usually sufficient deterrence to keep me away. But a friend had entered some jam and wanted to go see how she fared. The overwhelming quantity of (dare I say?) mediocre entries in everything from jams, to quilts, drawing, photos, clothing (sewn and knitted) and what [...]
Odds and Ends
Posted in birds, Uncategorized, Walks, tagged birds, Elsewhere on May 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On my way to the dentist last week, I couldn’t resist joining in on my friend’s fetish with shopping carts. There was an odd array of them along the road. … just stopping to catch up on the latest gossip … A newbie showed started showing up a few weeks ago. It wasn’t until I [...]
