This chilly evening, I am entertaining a delightful fantasy of moving over to the Plant Conservatory. I’d love to live among the orchids and tropical plants until spring arrives. Since that isn’t within the realm of possibility, I delved instead into a fascinating and totally absorbing read, Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the…

With the wind howling and a blizzard settling in this afternoon, I sat happily ensconced in our city’s little-known plant conservatory. My watercolour teacher decided it was the perfect place to hold a painting workshop this weekend.Why I have never discovered the City of Regina’s Plant Conservatory is beyond me. This is certainly one sure-fire…

Sure spring is still a long way off, but I discovered something useful today. Warmer temperatures and sunshine are perfect antidotes to the lethargic feelings that have taken hold of me these past weeks. There’s something about an azure-coloured sky that puts a spring back in my step and makes me want to look skyward…

With the bitterly-cold weather this past while, I am longing for spring with an intensity that I’m hard-pressed to define. Maybe this time of year brings a form of amnesia and I experience these feelings every February. A visceral longing overtakes me and I so want to step into my garden clogs, open the screen…

During these blustery, cold days, I have had much fun working on several beeswax collages.I finished the above collage just in time to meet the deadline for Beachy’s Cape Cod Cupboard Craft Challenge # 2. The only requirement for this challenge was to incorporate the photograph (pictured above) into a craft project of our choice.…

berriessuspendedlike bright beacons withstandingbitter winds through the snowbeckoninghungry, weary birds (by Kate)

The Amaryllis (aka Hippeastrum) that I have kept close tabs on for weeks finally opened yesterday. By this morning, two blooms were open and I was thrilled. Better than that, the temperatures here were above freezing for the first time in weeks. The snow was soft and Lytton, the dog, spent much of the day…

Quite some time ago, Lytton, my dog, was tagged by Yolanda Elizabet’s Bliss Team to participate in a cat meme. Lytton was most delighted and decided that the Bliss team had bestowed this honour on him because they knew he’d had been taught to respect and to admire all felines. Hazel, our departed, and much-missed…

Upon reading that Paige had tagged me for a Household Tips Meme, I had to smile. Far be it for me to offer tips on anything household. But then I thought that I do pay attention to my house plants and could offer some pearls of wisdom. Keeping house plants thriving during winter can be…

Each month for the past year, Carol at May Dreams Gardens has sponsored Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. It is a mid-monthly opportunity for all garden bloggers to post photographs of the plants blooming in their garden. This is my first Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post. I figured it was better to be one day late…