I’ve spent the past few days home with a kid that had the sniffles that somehow turned into pink eye. Or at least it looked like it could have been pink eye – what do I know. Neither hubby nor I have ever had it. So, today I could rant about how annoying it is […]
Photography
Garden Pictures
Some pictures from my backyard. One of my favorite California native, Apache plume. pretty white flowers in spring that turn into fluff balls in summer and fall. This bush is buzzing! Happy Happy bees enjoying the Ceonothus. Watermelons are thriving. So are the beets and carrots. Green beans, eh, not so much. At least a few are […]
Trying to find perspective through flowers.
If you have ever been on the 5 Freeway between San Diego and Los Angeles in the springtime you probably have seen the blaze of color on the hills just to the east. The Flower Fields of Carlsbad. It has been on my “things I’d like to do list” ever since I first saw them […]
Love my Easter Egg Hunting Yard
When the landscapers were putting the finishing touches on our native landscape, we found out J was on the way. For a moment M and I regretted removing all of the grass in the backyard. Then we looked at each other and said in unison “Easter Egg Hunts!” It is perfect for them. Here are a […]
5 a.m. on a Saturday is too early
Coffee, must have coffee! Sanity in a mug. (Yeah, I drink coffee from a Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime mug – got a problem with that?) Playing Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, picking 5 strawberries from the Enchanted Garden to make Strawberry Pancakes for breakfast. “I cut by myself, Mommy no help.” Banana Pancake with Strawberry Muddle (he would […]
My Pictorial Gardening Notebook
For the past few years I have tried to keep notes on what I do in the garden in a spiral bound notebook. Things I have put in are when I trim, what I plant and when, when things start blooming, etc. The problem is I start out pretty well in early spring and then I […]
A bit of spring
I am not trying to rub it in to those of you buried under a blanket of that funny white stuff you like to dump on your yards and roads and… I could never handle snow for longer than a weekend jaunt to the local mountains. But as a public service to anyone with the […]
Save those pictures
On That Recipe, my mother and I often harp on writing down the family recipes before they are lost. But, I have also begun a quest to get the family photos and letters saved so they are not lost to the ages. My mother’s parents lost most of their photos and other momentos during Fairbanks Great […]
Photography critiques requested.
We snuck away for a quick 24 hour trip to Mission Bay, San Diego yesterday after J got out of school. Night time beach and pool time, a typical night in a hotel room waking up in the middle of the night and talking for TWO HOURS!!!, then the park, more beach and more pool. And I tried […]
When does school start?
I’ve got the “eleven more days until school starts, this whiney kid is driving me crazy, what am I going to do with him” blues. Zip Van Winkle has been up since 5:15 this morning. He played quietly by himself for 30 minutes then came to our bed and demanded we come into his bed. […]
