Archive for the 'Holidays' Category

10 Dec

  With Christmas coming the snow outside my window right now, with a backdrop of grey trees, is pretty…what we like to see at this time of the year.  But it is cold, and as time goes by, we tend to look farward to spring, and consider making escapes to warmer climates…where it is warm, [...]

22 May

Comfrey – May be Moving to a Sunnier Location   We have a mixed-bag of weather this weekend, my husband will be happy to know that the weather will be cooler than it has been for the past couple of days, the temperatures are perfect for me, but he likes it below 80 degrees.  The trees [...]

02 Feb

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 [...]

28 Dec

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 [...]

22 Oct

The frost is most definitely on any pumpkins that happen to be decorating the yards on our street, we have had weather down in the 30′s at night, and the ones that have been carved and placed on the ground….the squirrels and raccoons have done their own version of the carvings by chewing away at [...]