How do you measure a year?

For the love of doing it yourself
(and for the love of a good terrarium)I love to learn. To try something new. To figure it out. Thus, I'm a lover of doing it yourself, or, DIY. If you're a regular to my blog, you know that about me. It's the love of learning that drives me. It's in my creativity, using emotions and a little bit of intuitive tapping into bits and pieces, that drives me to create. To make. To grow.So I have to tell you I love this podcast,

The hex
I’ve been fighting being sick. I didn’t know it, but it started to come on last week in the form of an eye infection and exhaustion. Evidently I fought it off, until yesterday, when it punched me in the gut and ran away laughing. I laid in bed curled up in a fetal position, shivering and miserable for the day. AdRi brought me 7-up, soup served on a tray in bed, and a gentle patting of my back. She’s the best caretaker ever. My b

My gnome grows weeds
You may remember my friend Seymour of the Woods. He had a wonderful summer, and even took up a little bowling. Crazy Seymour. But looks like he's also taken to growing weeds. Of course it's a clover, being the gnome that he is. Lucky for him I haven't pulled it. But I'm tempted.I am so done with the garden for the year. Done. There's work to be done out there

Black peppers at the back door
Ornamental Pepper 'Black Pearl' have been greeting us at our back door all summer long.The peppers were a deep shiny black, until recently when they've turned this bright red. I love them and hope to find them again next year.I think they'd look fetching with some airy green Asparagus Fern, or rising above some creeping golden thyme.Their deep true black leaves don't lighten or show areas of green at al

A posie for you and some love for my favorite Portland tree, Harlequin Glorybower
It's Friday. You deserve some flowers. These are from our garden after I roamed a bit with the clippers. Zinnias and perennial sunflowers here, but other blooms still going are the mexican sage, nasturtiums, sedum, salvias, and then there's all of the foliage color going strong.The view out the kitchen window into the garden....