It is not even the middle of February and of course the daffies and other spring people are making green motions upward all over the gardens but one brave crowd was The First for 2022 to join the hellies in center stage of winter color.
Even in the coldest of weather, we backwash the ponds weekly and on a sunny albeit FRIGID January day like today, I can promise you Joshua limits the number of times he dips his hands into the ponds.
The solstice brought us some blessed rain and warmer temps. Look who responded in full holiday regalia.
It seems preparations for the holiday season abound as folks of all ‘nationalities’ scurry about hoping to impress some little elves somewhere?
Will wonders never cease? Just one look outside and treats abound and await the patient observer.
We just HAD to share a couple more offerings from our guest, Lincoln Kenney as he observed the main house from the Chauffeur’s Quarters.
Here is the latest and greatest from Mother Nature as the roses have a second hurrah, another round of babies appears, and we see family night out.
Currently, we are in a continual battle to keep the youngster’s leaves and pods out of the upper pond and it is a TRIAL I tell you!
I’m not certain I like much of anything more than the feeling I get from the fall and winter sun playing off the cooler temperatures.
We seem to have so much going on that it all seems really little or REALLY BIG. Our feeding station always seems to be the scene of some scene or another and here something got the obvious attention of [...]
