I have always loved placing statues in my garden; they add personality and interest. My favorite and oldest is my little girl statue. I never named her so she remains "my little girl". She has been with me many years gracing every garden I've had. I love how she looks ready to take a bow…
Last Summer Days
I will hold on to warm days in the garden. Days of gentle breezes. Days with skies that hold the earth in a pallet of azure shades. Days when garden shadows play hide and seek between glints of light on flowering trees. Days in the garden witnessing the wonders of succession of bloom. When one…
I once had a tree.
The tree was the first thing I saw; magnificent limbs stretched across the yard in all directions. The house was built in 1920 on an acre of land with a few apple trees and an old chicken coop; perfect for a future potting shed. I saw the potential of what it could become. I knew…
Hummingbirds
"Daily he appears; His buzzing flight alerts me, Stirs my sense of wonder." ~ Linda C. Seifried A flash of iridescence. Wings that beat at lightening speed. Hummingbirds can fly forward, straight up and down, sideways and backward. They hover using bills that are long and slender making it possible for them to get sweet…
Always the Garden 