This past Christmas, we purchased a 2+ foot busy Norfolk Island Pine in a pot that is about 1 foot tall, so it sits nicely on the top of the chest of drawers backed up to our living room couch. I have wanted to do this for years, and having our artificial tree damaged during [...]
Fall, falling leaves, drooping plants in the garden, all point to an end of the gardening season, unless you have a green house. Harvest time has come, and is about finished. With Halloween coming this weekend, Thanksgiving next month, and Christmas in December with their pumpkin pies, PUMPKINS are taking over. Some grow them in [...]
Christmas week is upon us, and it has been a peaceful season in our home. We are thankful for that, it isn’t always that way due to the many circumstances of life, so makes it extra special when it is. I have a post I did a few years ago that is still relevant today about [...]
This is a stop that we made during a trip to Maine a couple of years ago…a wonderful picture of antique equipment used to sort cranberries at County Road Cranberry Bogs in Columbia Falls, Maine. In our travels (which were wherever the road may take us) we came upon this cranberry bog and the husband and wife who [...]
Herbs and Christmas come together when I think about the gifts the wise men brought to Jesus according to the biblical accounts of Christ’s birth. Two were herbal, and one isn’t an herb, but does have medicinal properties. Frankincense is a resin that is very aromatic, taken from a tree with the botanical name Boswellia [...]
