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  • Favorite Places: Southern Italy

    Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 18:45 in travel, europe, favorite_places

    Blue water, cliff-hanging villages and lemon groves. These are the visual imagines that come to mind when I reminisce about the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy. There's much more that cannot be captured in photos. The kindness and hospitality of the p...

  • Favorite Plant: A Sedge for the Edge

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 08:50 in low-maintenance, deer resistance, plants a-f, rabbit resistance

    There are few plants in the garden that are virtually maintenance-free. My favorite foliage plant is carex hachijoensis 'Evergold' that can be used in sun or part shade, zones 5-10 and is both deer and rabbit resistant. I have several varieties of ca...

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 22:02

    I hope everyone has a happy, safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!Home, Garden and Travel Tips...

  • I Can Dig It, He Can Dig It, We Can Dig It (The Garden Edge)

    Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 18:12 in musings, garden design

    Six inches of rain and the ground was soft. Nature provided the perfect condition for digging a nice, clean edge around the outer gardens. I got out the flat blade shovel and started cutting straight down through the grass to dig out a perfect edge. ...

  • Free Yourself and Your Oven; Grill the Turkey

    Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 16:28 in home, musings

    It all started with Thanksgiving 2006. Expecting a crowd for the big meal, I couldn't work out a way to get everything in the oven since the turkey was so large. We had to figure out how to get everything cooked on time. The microwave wouldn't do i...

  • Baffle the Squirrels and Feed the Birds

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 09:58 in musings, wildlife

    The IQ of a squirrel is greatly underestimated. They solve problems with logic and they know how to use tools. There's a "think tank" of great squirrel minds out in our woods right now, putting together a plan for how they can get an easy meal from ...

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Wow! I loved the post of the caterpillar metamorphosis into a Monarch butterfly! Thanks for sharing! Those pictures are beautiful!

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