According to Chinese legend, the Empress Wu Zeitan ordered all the flowers to bloom for the first New Year celebration of her reign. All the flowers in the royal garden participated except for the peony. The Empress forced the disobedient … Continue reading →
It’s been a while since I posted anything for Saturday Snapshot, hosted at West Metro Mommy Reads, but I thought that crowd would like to know what I learned at a photography workshop last weekend. I put the bulk of my thoughts … Continue reading →
Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports, guides, links, resources, personal stories, interviews, and research posts. Join us each Friday to link your British-themed … Continue reading →
Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports, guides, links, resources, personal stories, interviews, and research posts. Join us each Friday to link your British-themed … Continue reading →
Time for another garden update. I posted a photo of blueberry flowers in April, so here are the blueberries. Yesterday, I posted about the cress in my garden, so check that out, too! Saturday Snapshots are hosted each week by … Continue reading →
Last Sunday was the Garden Tour organized by the Missouri Botanical Garden, an event that happens only every three years and is great for ideas of things to implement in my yard. Here are some of the photos I took … Continue reading →
I mentioned in my previous post about this year’s vegetable garden that I used seed tape from Jung Seed for the first time — and, for the first time, I got lettuce seeds to germinate in my garden. One of the … Continue reading →
We went to Hermann, Missouri (famous as an old German wine-making town on the Missouri River) to see our nephew, Alex, graduate. It turned out that we got to hear him speak, too, because he was salutatorian! We stayed an … Continue reading →
A friend and I attended an author event last night. We were there to see Kelley Armstrong as fans of the Otherworld series for adults. But the event, the Dark Days Tour sponsored in St. Louis by Left Bank Books, … Continue reading →
I thought it would be fun to document my garden this year for the Weekend Cooking crowd and, since flowers are a favorite photography subject, for Saturday Snapshots, too. It’s hard to know where to start, so I went for … Continue reading →