Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Spring Things - High Anxiety

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No lovely photos tonight, although I have some nice ones to show you.  Please, if you want to see the beautiful part of spring, come back to...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Community and Container Gardening Mid May Update

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It was the best of times, it was the worst... After such a harsh winter where we live near Binghamton, New York, my spouse couldn't wa...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Barns and Blooms in Upstate New York

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This is so not New York City. Some parts of the country had severe weather yesterday.  But here, spring is continuing. We finally got o...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Civil War Sunday - The 100th Mothers Day

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In 2012 - two years ago - I wrote this Civil War Sunday post on Mother's Day.  Below is my original post with some minor editing.  Lik...
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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Sustainable Saturday - Digging Ramps - or Not

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Today, I got an unintended education. My spouse and I visited the farmers market in Ithaca, New York, home of Ithaca College and Cornell U...
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Friday, May 9, 2014

With Clouds of White

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Every spring, here in upstate New York, I look forward to the blooming of the white flowers.  Many of them are Bradford pear trees, but ther...
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Thursday, May 8, 2014

28 Years Later

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It's the things we can't see that scare us the most. Chernobyl.  Actually, Pripyat (Chernobyl was a power plant, Pripyat was the c...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Spring Things - Spring Things Are Made of This

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Spring, spring, glorious spring!  After our harsh winter here in the Binghamton area of upstate New York (not as harsh as some other places,...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

The Ugly Stepsister of Cancer

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While I would love to blog about spring today, there is something going on that I need to blog about. White Hyacinth in my Front Yard ...
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Monday, May 5, 2014

Downtown Buildings and Plants Bloom

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Is it possible to have spring beauty in a downtown urban setting? YES! We in upstate New York had a cold winter, and now we are having a...
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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Civil War Sunday - The Wild Battlefield of Fire

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One modern newspaper article from a city in the former Confederate States of America called it "the beginning of the end". And, ...
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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Sustainable Saturday - Behind the Scenes at a Local Grower

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These past several years, I've shown you lots and lots of plants.  Herbs, vegetable plants, and lots and lots of flowers. Have you eve...
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Friday, May 2, 2014

Ready to Rise Again?

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We've had another fire in downtown Binghamton, New York. It broke out about 7:30 Wednesday morning, and rapidly spread through the bel...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Dancing Around the Maypole

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The first day of May, traditionally, has been a celebration of spring. No maypoles here in upstate New York that I know of.  No sunshine y...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Spring Things - Art Me Up Buttercup

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The weather gets more extreme and scarier.  As I write this post, the death toll from the tornadoes of the past several days stand at over 2...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Weeding My Mental Garden

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I was not feeling very good about blogging last night.  I was finishing up the Ultimate Blog Challenge, and feeling like I didn't get ve...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Six Lessons of the Orchid

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I am an eternal optimist when it comes to orchids. I've killed some, and I've made some rebloom.  And, each year, I go to the orch...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Civil War Sunday - A Woman of the Civil War

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We are coming up on the anniversary of some major Civil War battles.  With that, I want to take up a suggestion of one of my blog readers, w...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Sustainable Saturday - They Didn't Get His Goat

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Today, in the Triple Cities of upstate New York, it was time for Earth Day celebrations.  At a local liquor store (whose history is a litt...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

3711 Photos

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See the title?  That's how many photos I have on my iPhone. No, I'm serious.  I hoard photos. It's understandable in a way, ...
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