May brings us daily surprises along with some blessedly familiar faces with our precious koi having returned from West Palm Beach with ravenous appetites. Virginia and Frank Sinatra are such chow-hounds! [...]
No words are needed really so just look and listen with your heart. [...]
I planted what we now call the Grand Old Gramma of a wisteria over my front porch nearly 28 years ago. The plant was the size of my index finger and I tied her to a ‘one-by’ with one of [...]
We have forgotten our former states, except in early spring, when we dimly recall being green again and it will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are. Rumi Would that we could be this green. [...]
One look at us, and everything GRINDS to a halt! A fountain of PURE temptation crafted with FINELY-CUT gems. We put DELICIOUS in a whole new category . . . Take a stroll through our gardens to enjoy a feast [...]
We don’t need no stinking thermometer to tell us when the finned folks are ready to eat again having ‘returned from West Palm Beach’ (which is code for hibernation). Look at what greeted us a couple of days ago. [...]
April is making us think that summer is already here with a variety of exciting happenings outside. The squirrels have reappeared frisky as can be. And as the fruit trees just begin to blossom [...]
The end of March saw us enduring yet another assault by the javelina resulting in the devastation of the front porch planters we had just replanted two weeks before. To our chagrin, it seemed another gate was in order. Joshua [...]
Nearly anyone who has visited The Surgeon’s House knows that the current owner is absolutely over-the-moon gaga for all things PENCILS and she is not alone. Did you realize that each year March 30 is National Pencil Day and rightly so! In [...]
Just look at the never-ending beauty of the Earth Mother and how we have the senses to appreciate her gifts as written by the Sufi poet, mystic, and sacred person, Rumi in the late 1200s . . . Again [...]
