As I've heard some of you comment, flowers seem to be blossoming earlier than usual this year.  Like a few of my other flowers, this is ...

  That's how much rain we got last night in about ten minutes.  Welcome though the long-awaited rainfall was the fierce thunder/lightnin...

  I'm relieved to say our temperature has dropped significantly, but we still have gotten no rain.  Not much we can do about it but keep...

I'm just in from watering the garden which has been a (nearly) must-do activity each day.  Had a friend visiting this afternoon and I fe...

It must be the stubbornness of the Taurus astrological sign under which I was born because even though I've frequently said I'll nev...

Okay, to be more positive, it's more like one step forward, one step back.   Despite the fact that when one plants mint in the garden, a...