Now that the weather is warming and frost-free dates are approaching (zone 6 is April 15 - remember your zone? Have you found your date?), I can feel the buzz of excitement, especially on the internet, among all of us who are growing vegetables this year. I’ve found a great number of really helpful posts [...]

Click on out of your reader and come see my new look! Figured it’s a new year (I’m one year older today) so I should change things around a bit. And I wanted to tie in more with the topics I’ve been covering lately. Jo-Lynne/DCR Design is awesome. This banner is deceptively complicated but she [...]

I received this email from my husband just this morning:
“Couldn’t figure out why there were so many old ladies on the train this morning, until the conductor said ‘Market East! Flower Show!’ and they all got off.”
Yep, I imagine nothing can get the elderly on the trains as easily as the Philadelphia Flower [...]

Before I begin this post, I have a question for my five remaining readers: what are your feelings about my posts about gardening?
I ask because I’m not sure what to do here. I haven’t been blogging much for months now, but certainly when I do there is a high frequency of posts about plants, gardening, [...]

Alas, I only had my camera phone. But I forced us all outside the other day. The doldrums of staying in were too much. Had to go slide around on the ice. Had to get some air.

For more shots of Winter, head on over to I Should Be Folding Laundry.

The following is one of several items my husband has emailed me from upstairs in his sick bed.
It’s just too perfect.

If you do venture out tonight, I suggest you go as a “Surgeon,” complete with face mask and latex gloves. And maybe leave the cell/blackberry/iphone at home:)
Happy Halloween!

When I stopped by I Should Be folding Laundry this morning to remind myself of what this week’s challenge was, I was disappointed when I saw it: “Still Life.” And on her post she had lovely pictures of her home, bright, cheerful, and clean. I looked around my own house and just thought, “What could [...]