Something caught my eye this morning while I was making coffee. A bloom – yes, a real bloom on a Blue and Black Salvia slip. I really wanted to bring the Salvia plants indoors, but I simply don’t have room in my cozy, little house. So I made a cutting of one of these Salvias…

Have you ever watched a flowering tea bloom right before your eyes? It is truly a magical experience. A tight, little ball of carefully- wrapped tea leaves (shown above) unfurls into a lovely flower. This little ball opened into a string of Globe Amaranths – no wonder the tea was labelled ‘Ruby Jewel’ (pictured below).…

There’s simply no reason for denying it any longer. I am hoping this will be a long-lived romance, filled with blossoms throughout the seasons. How could I not fall in love with my Bengal Clock Vine? I think it must have sensed my need to be surrounded by exquisite flowers. New blooms are opening every…

Several weeks ago, my garden blogging friend, Anne, at NikkiPolani, sent me an envelope filled with these pressed flowers from her garden. Included, too, were dried persimmons, which have long since been devoured. I was so touched by this lovely gesture. Anne knew that I was finding it hard this fall saying goodbye to my…

Lytton is an amazing dog. Somehow he managed to pull a bag of rawhide chews off the top of the frigo while Benoît and I were out shopping last night. I didn’t realise this until I went to give him his nightly chew. There were none left. He didn’t appear in the least bit repentant…

We woke this morning to more snow – the most snow we’ve had this winter. I know because someone must have decided to detour from the street to the back lane via our house. Both gates were left open and so Lytton decided to take off and have some fun. Off I went to find…

What a wonderful day I’ve had. After a few days of trepidation leading up to my birthday, I decided it was time to change my thinking. Turning 50 happens only once in our lives and I figured I should embrace it as a time of adventure and opportunity. Several of my friends, here and in…

The freezing temperatures have kept me inside knitting up a storm. Every now and then I stop, feed my son, have a long bath and take the dog for a very short walk. I’m obsessed with my knitting. Could that have anything to do with my recent foray to the wool store, where I discovered…

This summer, I found a tiny vine and decided to buy it. I thought it would be a blue version of the Black-Eyed Susan vine. I had never seen one before, so was curious about it. Throughout the summer, it twined and twisted without ever putting out a bloom. Last week, as I was watering…

Today is the last day of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). I am glad I participated, even though it was definitely a much greater challenge to blog every day for one month than I anticipated. Along the way I discovered it was often tough for me to come up with things to write about every…