Greetings,Happy October! The sun has been shining here! The sounds of mowers filled the air this weekend with everyone catching up from 2 weeks of drizzle and rain.Now everyone is getting out their Fall décor in their yards. What flower comes to mind...

Greetings,Happy autumn! You may be enjoying apple picking and Fall festivals at orchards in your area these days. Unfortunately, we've been stuck in a drizzly pattern for the past week here, so it hasn't been great weather for those activities.But, i...

Greetings,Still hanging on the hot summer weather here yet this week. It looks like we should see a bit of a change next week. I see some people decorating for Fall, some houses with pumpkins, corn stalks, and the ever popular huge 'viral' skeletons....

Greetings,Hope you had a nice weekend! We have still been holding onto summer and had a pretty long stretch of dry, warm weather keeping me in the summer mode over here. This week we are in for a wet week, which will be a change!Today we have a new N...

Greetings,Happy September! I hope you are looking around your gardens and still enjoying blooms as the summer season is winding down. Last week we shared a very active bloomer right now, spotted bee balm. It is still full of bees at our house!Today,...

Greetings,Labor Day weekend?! Wow, what a summer! We are wrapping up the unofficial end to summer with a bit of a rainy weekend here, which hints at the change of season coming. Lately, I've been enjoying one of my favorite parts of having so many na...

Greetings,Joe loves peppers...hot sauces...and all things to add a lil' (or in my language 'a lot of') kick to his food. One thing he has just loved enjoying is adding his own chipotle powder to his meals. I think he enjoys the process of making it a...

Greetings,As we continue to enjoy what's blooming now...today I wanted to highlight blue lobelia. It attracts a nice variety of pollinators and has a showy presence that fits in well in traditional residential landscaping. If you are interested in ad...

Greetings,And now we find ourselves somehow in the middle of August!? We had traveled to the Midwest to visit family last week and as you can imagine, Joe spent much of his time documenting & observing all that was in bloom! We are back home and...

Greetings,We are cruising right through July and enjoying a break in the heat in our area right now. Loving the variety of blooms around our gardens, the various bees, butterflies, & more that we are getting to watch, and our vegetable garden com...