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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Hard times: How would we respond?

Friday, June 11, 2010

Wikipedia: a sugar plantation in Cuba Though I try not to be too gloomy, I, like many others, am afraid that there’s a significant chance that there may be hard times in our not-too-distant future. In fact, I’m afraid we may be in for a double whammy. Whammy No. 1 would be a long period […]

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Patience

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Ken waters the straw bale garden The vegetable garden this year is both small and late, because of time spent putting up the garden fence and planting permanent fruit trees. In future years, I intend to have a much larger vegetable garden. But the plants are all developing. The blueberry bushes and grape fines actually […]

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Photos from my morning walk

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Late yesterday afternoon, a thunderstorm dropped almost one and a half inches of rain here. So all the growing things are very happy this morning. The first railroad lily opened this morning. This terrapin slowly wandered across the driveway. A baby bell pepper A couple of the straw bales have a crop of mushrooms each […]

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Butterfly weed

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Ken with a clump of butterfly weed Butterfly weed is one of my favorite wildflowers. The only way I know to acquire it is to dig some up by the roadside.

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Mitchell's Nursery

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Ken and I made a run this morning to Mitchell’s Nursery and Greenhouse at King. We came back with the trailer loaded with: Another fig three, two peach trees, 3 blueberry bushes, two grapevines, a rhododendron, 2 crepe myrtles, a dogwood tree, and two emerald green arbor vitae trees. I wanted a couple of cherry […]

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