Man, oh man, do yourselves a favor of all favors and drag yourselves outside right this very minute because all the action is out there. And guess who is back little [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Spring is in the air and some folks really know how to make a show of themselves – check out the indomitable pansy and an American kestrel zooming in to grab dindin. Some folks, it seems, [...]