This year I’m enjoying the garden in a way I never have before, because I have carte blanche to just sit and enjoy it. This is a new experience for me, because in the past I’ve always been there to work to make it more beautiful, but I rarely just relaxed under a tree with...
I thought if I put an exclamation point at the end of the title it would attract more readers?! I have spent today working on my site!! All I did was create categories for my posts, which are available on the righthand side of each page. I thought it would be fun if people could...
I have always had an uneasy relationship with sleep. Even as a child I used to have wakeful nights, especially after a bad dream (there was a recurring one about an abominable snowman that was particularly terrifying). For several nights after an especially vivid dream I would have trouble getting to sleep. In the room...
The heat is getting to me. I even have A/C (not central, but still, it helps…) and I still feel it. I went to a class at the gym and then to the bank and I’m still recovering hours later. I looked at the temperature and it’s a mere 30C, I can’t even fathom how...
It’s January and I’ve decided to follow my guru, Gretchen Rubin, and make a “19 for 2019” list. It’s like I’m making 19 resolutions, except I don’t have to throw my hands up at the end of January if I haven’t done them yet, because I have the WHOLE year to put them in place....
I was feeling the greyness of November very heavily on my psyche the other day, when I wrote the post, November Blues. I don’t think I really believed that it was only the dreariness of the weather that was making me feel so down, but when I woke up this morning and the world was...
It’s a dreary month, no question, but the Nordic countries have something they call “hygge”, a Danish word defined in English as “A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being.” (thank you, Oxford Living Dictionary) I think the idea is to make up for the lack of light...
Today was a weird day. Not in a bad way, but, still, weird. First of all, I woke up at 9:30, having gone to sleep at 11:30, with one hour of wakefulness in the middle of the night. That is an insane amount of sleep for me. I’m very happy if I get between 6-7...
I’m not quite ready to abandon the gardening aspect of my blog for the year, because I have an update! I spent a tranquil hour at Jasmin yesterday, wandering between the aisles of plants, vacillating between hydrangea cultivars (if that’s the word I want). I was drawn towards one called hydrangea paniculata Fire light because of...
It’s September and the gardening season is winding to a close, just as I’m thinking of doing some after a long, hot summer of avoiding garden work like the plague! Aside from a couple of good days of weeding and dead-heading, I have done very little. On the other hand, amazingly, the garden is still...