it’s good to be home

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awww! how nice was it to arrive home last evening to this cute card propped against my computer screen and dinner just about ready? plus, david was vacuuming when i got here—what more could anyone want? i love this man . . . before i tell you all about my weekend in germantown, i know […]

just under the wire

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this miniature lime-green hosta has such pretty dark purple flowers—about the only new thing blooming at the moment. hard to believe that july is almost half gone and the flowers are petering out. sigh. we do have one more wave of blooms—the stargazers, with their outrageous fragrance are about to burst open; hopefully, tomorrow. this […]

local color

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i spotted a little tinge of pink on a few tomatoes today . . . and another little gift of rich, deep purple under the eggplant canopy. i know the garden always seems to come first in my posts lately (i try to change it up sometimes), but once that headliner photo starts the conversation, […]

motivational knitting

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(flower of the day, asparagus) i took this photo the other day when it was still sunny . . . now it’s gray and rainy, but boy, do we need it. even our shrubbery was wilting in the heat and dry weather we’ve been having. so, where the heck have i been the last few […]