Category Archives: Gardening/Flowers
Artichokes ‘n Smoked Salmon Eggs Bennie
Pretty fancy name for a thistle! Artichokes are native to the Mediterranean, so it comes as no surprise that my
Flower Power Spring Edit
One of my favorite magazines for years has been House & Home { no this is not paid advertising.. I just really love
Spring Festivus!
Let the War on Winter Commence! Let the Easter Spring Festivus Begin! { We can’t say Merry Christmas
Joyeux Noël ~ Merry Christmas
Today is a fresh new day.. and my kitchen is filled with the fragrance of Gingerbread Waffles { a girl’s got to
Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies
It started out as a totally normal week.. Seriously, who hasn’t had days like these? Still, I wonder, can we
Whitewater Cooks Minestrone Soup
If hindsight is 20-20, what is intuition? ♥ I should have intuited, that after a long week of birthday planning and
Fall Nesting and Earl’s Kopycat Santa Fe Salad
There was a cool timbre to the morning air last Saturday as Katie and I hefted our bikes onto the car rack. We
A Mother’s Day Loooong Weekend..
My Mother’s Day long weekend (they should always last longer than a regular weekend!) was perfect… slow and
A Girl’s Gotta Dream ~ Reader Rock Gardens
I think communities today have it backwards… increasingly immense houses are being erected on pint-sized lots.
sol·stice – derives from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still)
My mother, June, was born on the day that the earth is most directly inclined towards the sun. It is no surprise
Honey B’s, Bees and Honey on Lemon Tarragon Scones
June 2011 Honey is known to have wonderful health benefits, and it’s yummy when a large dollop is plopped
Sunshowers!.. and a Wee Bumble Bee
If it must rain, please let it be a sunshower! The poetic yet contradictory convergence of rain and the
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood | Country Gardens Nursery
After much digging, pulling, hauling and down right grinding through the rock hard clay of our Alberta soil, my new
“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” Georgia O’Keeffe
All of these photographs were taken during my recent visit to the vineyards in the St Helena, California vicinity
Secret Stop #2 ~ peaseblossoms
Chocolates in hand (or mouth) saunter next door to visit Marika’s flower shop peaseblossoms. Purchase a
