The Big Toad lives!

I’ve posted before about the Big Toad, a very large toad that’s the size of my hand at least (you can’t really tell from these pics just how big she is). She’s been MIA for a long time, and I was afraid she was gone or had died. But today, I spotted her hopping along…

Designs and musings

I’ve completely fallen in love with digital scrapping. It’s so addicting! It completely satisfies so many things my inner artist craves: color, layout, whimsy, symbolism…to name a few. And the more I explore it, the more I am intrigued with digital art journaling and the other, deepening forms it takes. I’ll be exploring that as…

A White House garden!

Ok, ok, sometimes my avoidance of news media makes me miss really cool things. Today I was reading Seeds of Change eNewsletter “The Cutting Edge,” and in it I came across this gem: An Organic Garden on the White House Lawn While Obama was still campaigning for the democratic primary, participants in the WHO Farm…

Caught red-handed

So there is a small, adorable black and white kitty that hangs around outside the house, and I’ve begun feeding her. I couldn’t not feed her, as when I finally petted her, I realized she was literally starving (her sides were concave, and she was clearly severely underweight). So I started giving her little bowls…

Big Toad is back!

The Big Toad, who’s been living here for untold years now (she was here, and big, 2-3 years ago), made a rare appearance today: out front! I went out the front door to get something from my car, and I saw a flash of movement off to the left, near a pot. I figured it…

Welcome July

I am borrowing this idea from a few other blogs I read: Welcoming July with pictures. Here are a few shots of my small green space at this point in the year: As the first bloom fades, several other coneflowers are ready to take its place! I can’t wait to see them. The caterpillars feasted;…

A Midsummer bounty!

Don’t you just love it when you forget having certain things on hand, and then suddenly you remember, with a SNAP! Oh yeah!! moment? That’s what just happened to me. This time of year I always get into my major planting mode, wanting to turn my roommate’s entire backyard into a garden. Since I can’t…