We awoke to a winter wonderland this morning!  Later today, we'll be celebrating a family Christmas and the snow is perfect for putting us in the holiday mood. It's a busy day, but I took a few minutes to go walkabout and capture a few images of the...

Four days ago, I was hanging out in Twitter, when someone tweeted that The Martha Stewart Show was "calling all bloggers" to apply for tickets to attend the taping of a special show she was doing in January on blogging.  Having never been to New York...

Each month, gardeners the world over celebrate the blooms in their gardens on the 15th. Two days late, I'm posting my meager offerings for December. Regardless of what was still in bloom two weeks ago, and even just one week ago, we're now down to...

Black Magic and Purple Passion by Karen Platt 208 pages Black Tulip Publishing, 3rd Ed., 2004 List price: $26.99 Karen Platt knows her way around in the dark.  A resident of Sheffield, England, she has been studying, researching, and...

Someone is going to be very happy to learn that they have won the EasyBloom Plant Sensor! As of midnight last night, there were 24 comments left on the qualifying post, but one of those was by me, in response to other comments. So when I used the...