I don’t suppose tomato blossoms really have a smell. If they do, it is overwhelmed by smell of tomato foliage, which is still a pleasing scent. Poor little tomato blossoms. Gardeners watch for them. We laud their appearance and lament… Read more ›

I suppose that when I say this is my favorite garden decoration, what I actually mean is that it is my favorite non-organic decoration, as my flowers are my favorite organic decoration. This is the base to an old seventies… Read more ›

What a happy day this is! The State government, despite having such pressing tasks such as saving strippers from their mean ol’ customers and completely ignoring the school funding crisis here in Ohio, has seen fit to vote (once again)… Read more ›

Peat and Repeat were sitting on a log. Peat falls off. Who’s left? Repeat. Peat and Repeat were sitting on a log. Peat falls off… Okay, so it is not a funny joke even when my kids tell it. I… Read more ›

As the weather is only now just thinking about cooperating and is being quite mopey about it – rain, rain rain – there is really not much to do except read a good book. And if you ever were to… Read more ›

It was a cold but brilliant day here in Cleveland. Too cold to do any gardening, but that does not mean that I couldn’t enjoy a bit of the outdoors inside. I was given two free tickets to the Cleveland… Read more ›

Today I had the happy serendipity to come across the Dahlia Society of Ohio Show and Competition at the Petitti’s in Oakwood. Now, two things come to my mind when I see the word Society linked with any species of… Read more ›

When I was younger and was sans offspring, I did quiet a bit of world traveling, backpacker style. It was an enjoyable past time and one that I hope that I can return to sometime in the future. My thoughts… Read more ›

In case you don’t keep up on international fluff news (you know, the happy stuff that doesn’t involve people shooting at each other or blowing each other up), you may not know that Japan just breathed a huge sigh of… Read more ›