Fresh from the field this reporter has exciting news about the new fall fashions being worn! Colors will be wild and vibrant! All combinations are acceptable, too! You are limited only by your creativity. The stylists at the Sumac Salon are experimenting with some new hair colors: Word on the street is that this [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Fall Fashion Extravaganza
Posted in Flowers, tagged flowers, fun, life on September 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Autumn joy
Posted in Flowers, Food, garden, Wildlife, tagged bees, food, garden, life on September 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Fall is officially here, as we have passed the Invernal Equinox. Somehow the weather heard about the astronomical event, and so we have been enjoying some crisp mornings at The Havens. In fact, the weather prognosticators believed that we were going to experience a low in the mid-40s last night, and so we performed [...]
Photohunt: Natural
Posted in blogging, garden, Photography, tagged backyard wildlife habitat, blogging, garden, photography on September 25, 2010 | 25 Comments »
When we moved into this house back in 1995, there was nothing here but lawn and some elm trees. It didn’t take long for me to decide that I really needed to have a pond somewhere, as I wished to encourage birds and amphibians to live here. So, one fine afternoon in 1996, [...]
Random reveries
Posted in dogs, life, etcetera, tagged life on September 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I walk my dog every day, and while I am out circumambulating the conservation area where we take our exercise, I find my train of thought wandering down tracks that are sometimes commonplace but oftentimes outre. For example, this morning I found myself wondering several things, all seemingly unconnected, but all originating out of things [...]
Live and learn
Posted in garden, Philosophy of Life, tagged garden, grapevines, life on September 23, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Henry Ford once said “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” I guess I’m not old yet, because I recently learned something: Never plant grape vines near your vegetable garden. A few years ago, we decided we wanted to grow table grapes. We looked around our property, and saw that there [...]
