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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging ~ Vol 11.33: Garden Passion (or It's...
passiflora caeruleaBlame Credit needs to go to Frankenoid as it was her posting a photo of a passionflower long long ago that got me on this journey (and determination) to grow some in my garden.The...
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Toosdai Critters: How you know
How you knew it wasn't that time at the vet's office. That night, she jumped onto the couch and climbed onto your chest and snuggled deeply into your neck, pressing her cheek against yours, purring.How...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blog: Gung Hay Fat Choy!
It’s the Year of the Monkey!Lucky colors: white, blue, goldLucky flowers: chrysanthemum, crape-myrtleWhiteFor some reason, it’s been hard for me to find a white rugosa rose. Most come in various...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blog - Why do you garden?
It’s snowing today as I am preparing this diary. But I’m hopeful this will be the last of winter and snow as we begin to warm up towards Spring. But on days like today when there’s nothing that can...
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Auld Lang Syne, dear Tricia
♪♫ Shid ald akwentans bee firgawt, n nivir brocht ti mynd?Shid ald akwentans bee firgawt, n ald lang syn?kishik and her pooties have Tricia etched in their hearts forever...♪♫ Fir ald lang syn, ma jo,...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging: Orchidaceae
Rambling a bit while waiting for true Spring. It’s supposed to snow this weekend!! Aghhh… So this is a short diary so we can suffer the snow with colour.*****************I fell in love with orchids...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging: Green is the loveliest colour...
Here in the northeast — more specifically, Long Island, NY, Spring has finally arrived. Ok. Spring officially began last month, however it’s been this week where temps have settled enough that I feel...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging - Spotting Rainbows in the Garden
Have you ever noticed how flowers and feather colours mimic one another? It’s warbler migration time and, for me, that means prime bird watching season, and at the same time the flowers also putting...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging: Flower Portraits
The war on weeds begins, but amidst the overgrowth that I’m slowly moving forward on clearing and thinning, the clematis have been quietly blooming. Over the years, I’ve planted vines tucked here and...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blog: Phone Photos - Bats, Berries and Butterflies
Of late, I haven’t been using my camera except for when I want to capture bird images. Instead, I’ve been using my smartphone camera, especially since I’ll often listen to podcasts, music or...
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Aji still needs a home - can we give some Hope?
Do you know the story of homelessness of one of our own? Aji, who has been a kossack since 2009 and one who contributed to many groups with many diaries of her own, has been struggling to live in a...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blog: August Heat - Bunnies and Scallops and Shrimp,...
After working long hours in the garden, the heatwave and fatigue had me seeing things. Or at least that fatigue allowed some joyful hallucinations to take place.I think it all started with the...
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The Fragility of Shelter - Building a home: Aji & Wings
I know that many who are reading this diary already are aware of Aji and Wings plight of homelessness these past six plus years. If you are new to this series of diaries on their dire situation,...
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When I see blue, I see a home for Aji and Wings
When Jemma (pictured above) has strong emotions coursing through her little body, like when she’s playing hard or when she’s purring loud with love, her eyes turn a green blue like the turquoise in the...
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Update on Aji and Wings Homebuilding...
******************Aji’s goal to continue work next week and to purchase the vigas for the first floor is to reach $14,000. That means (as of the writing of this diary) $2,750.xEmbedded ContentHeads up...
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September 11, 2016
15 years. It's been 15 years and I know I will never be who I once was. Not for the time past and growing older, but for the event that wrenched and tore my spirit apart. All the mending over time...
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Home and Heart: Aji and Wings
When you look at the stone in this ring, what do you see?I love this ring. It’s made by Wings. When I saw it posted on his silver gallery, I felt I needed to bring her home. It’s a simple design,...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging 12.38 :: Hoping for Hummers, Got Cats?
WARNING! LONG VIDEO AND PHOTO LADEN DIARY!! PLEASE SET ASIDE TIME TO ENJOY☺☺☺Since experiencing hummingbirds visiting my garden (visibly and regularly) for the first time in 2013, I was determined this...
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Aji and Wings: Hummingbirds, Herringbone and Hope
In the northeast, the hummingbirds are starting their fall migration heading south to their winter homes. As I sit here at the computer, I can see them in my garden where I still have many nectar...
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Aji and Wings: Autumn update plus something special!
*It’s autumn! And here around the northeast it means it’s mums season. Mums sold everywhere- garden centers, farmers markets, supermarkets… Mums in the cooling weather will stay blooming with some...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging: Texas Transplants and Critters
Knowing I’ve been rather obsessed with hummingbirds, I was sent a few plants (okay, three boxes full!) from Texas to help me along the way. I’d like to happily report — it worked! As fall begins and...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging: Signs of Fall
Even before cool days increase in number and those night temperatures get downright chilly, I can always tell the signs of Autumn before tree leaves change their colours.While my backyard looks like...
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Aji and Wings:Thank You! And the Roof will be Raised
This is a Thank You diary. A big thank you to the community for it’s positive energy, love, devotion, recs, shares and donations that have helped Aji and Wings meet this moment.Of course, more needs...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging: Are you ready for Blue?
I just thought it would be a nice time to revisit the Blues…okay — maybe some purples turning to blue?Who doesn’t love Blue?‘nuff said.Happy Saturday!! Let’s make November a month for Blue...
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Aji and Wings: More help needed, please!
I love looking at this photo above, no matter how unfinished this home looks. It’s because I see the deck attached to a house, a home — and I see the shininess of what will be windows. And up on top...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging 12.51 ~ You can't kill us...
As of 9 days ago, there were still blooming flowers in the yard. Fewer, but still blooming, and this even after two days of frost since the end of the official growing season.milkweed, tropical I...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blog: February 2009-2016
Eight years of February… and some thoughts.February 2009, a black bird covered in stars...February 2010, emerging from the cold, the heather enduresFebruary 2011, winds blow hard but the feet stick...
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Aji and Wings ~ Resilience, Endurance and Hope
As the earth cycles towards our season of rebirth and awakening, I’m reminded not to forget the season’s quirks and the groundhogs curse.On February 2, we were supposed to be on our way to an early...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 13.13: Gardening in White
wtf… it’s Spring. How can this happen? Up to the neck in white??!!!Where’s the groundhog? Why am I being punished this way??! And here I was admiring these the other day:You can tell from that sky...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging ~ Vol 13.18 ~ Almond Along
I live in the northeast. Not the super cold part of the northeast, but on Long Island, NY, where the climate is tempered by the Atlantic.Around 1995 or so, I decided to plant an almond tree. It was...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 13.20 ~Pooling Thoughts and Ponds
In 2012, I had the back garden cleared out and moved the pond to its new spot. Five years pass, changed and expanded the pond twice. In 2015, I put in a stream — which was an utter failure. I was...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, Vol 13.23 ~ It's June!
June is here. I bought some milkweed that already had caterpillars.I still have more plants cluttering up my driveway that need to be planted!!June! It’s already June and I’m still planting! And the...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 13.26 ~ The Eagle has Landed
Well, no. Not THAT eagle. Unless I had a huge pond with yummy fish, I don’t suspect I could find a way to feed a bird eagle and this is a garden diary after all. Gardens feed people and other...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 13.32 : Portraits
How are you taking your photos these days? Are you lugging around a camera or are you like me, mostly take photos with a smart phone?The dragonfly photo above was taken with a camera (Canon EOS Rebel...
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September is Blue
Lido Beach, NY September 11, 2017For 16 years my body has never failed to fall into a pattern of instinct and memory as the mornings start off cool and the skies reflect a clarity without the haze of...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, Vol 13.39 ~ What Do You Do...
Soooo. What do you do when the diary you started gets held hostage in the depths of the computer which won't let it go? Mei proclaims she didn't do it, but she sleeps on the computer keyboard on a...
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UPDATE 2: Match met!!!! Aji and Wings~ Words on the Wind, Love Sent and Received
It’s been a long hard two years when the single focus has been to get Aji and Wings back under a real roof with real walls and real windows and into a real home after having their previous home ripped...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 13.44 ~ Pondering in November
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Turquoise teeth and lavender earsRed skirts and pink gownsRare magenta pearls and the common whiteA unicorn horn is...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging ~ Vol 14.3: I'm dreaming of a....
It's right around this time of year as I start to notice and feel the days lengthening and then I get those idgies… I want to get out and see what's growing, even if temperatures here are still...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging ~ Vol 14.07: the Season of Meh!
Usually February is the month most of us here on Long Island, NY, think of as the “worst” month. Unpredictable, cold, likely the worst snow month. Well… so far it’s been a fairly warmish February and...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol.14.10 ~ I hate it when the groundhog is...
So... second nor’easter within a week… Thank goodness, this one was a bust! That is, at least in my neck of the woods on the south shore of Long Island. My sister in NJ got about 10” of wet heavy...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 14.14 ~ How you do April
2017201810 degrees at this time of year makes a big difference. They updated the forecast for next week forecast (thank goodness!) because it was previously showing night temps in the upper twenties to...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 14.20 ~ May Musings
It’s been a soggy week. Rain every day except Friday which was overcast, but at least no constant drip or shower.It’s May! It’s not been the best May, but it’s a better May than last May. It’s been...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 14.24 ~ The 'C' Word
Let’s start with the weird disease sounding flower, ClematisClematis fever is quite catching… as you can tell by the variety blooming in my garden. Please, don’t ask me their names because their tags...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 14.26 ~ The B Word
** WARNING WARNING — THIS DIARY CONTAINS PHOTOS THAT SOME MAY FIND (FILL IN THE BLANK) **I really wanted to present this diary without the warning. For most gardeners, the B word comes naturally to...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 14.31 ~ Seed Selfies
No matter how I plan, I can never resist encouraging self-seeders to grow and thrive. And I have many that sprout up on their own… a lot! This does interfere with better garden planning as I always...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol.14.35 Seasons Change....
Good Morning, Y’all!Seasons, they are a changing… I basically have two seasons per year: Tomato/pepper season and Bama Football Season. My tomatoes and peppers are winding down, and I’m smelling...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol 14.36 ~ Wild Cats in the Garden
Two years ago, I wrote a diary on raising monarch caterpillars inside. It was a thrilling and magical journey.This year, like last year, I let the monarchs be monarchs outdoors. I can firmly state...
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September 11, 2018
In the first non-political memorial in some years, the event at Point Lookout, NY was quietly presented as the mist and fog rolled in. This year’s presentation, now that the Town of Hempstead has...
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