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I was so bummed and cursing my brown thumb after I found my third dead cucumber plant today. However, I cheered up immediately when I saw this . It looks like I am going to get some strawberries this summer. It’s like nature is telling me to forgo salads this summer and just eat strawberry…

The tulips and daffodils have now faded and are starting to hibernate. Time to bring out the bright and colorful late spring flowers. We bought a few annuals such as peonies at Home Depot last weekend. However my favorite new flower is the dahlias . Last year we had these bright red ones. I was…

This weekend I swung by my mom’s house to wish her a Happy Mother’s day. I had intended to give her a portrait of her beloved dog Amy. Amy is an older dog she rescued from the SPCA where she works in her spare time. Despite being older and having cancer Amy is still a…

I was so sad to see that Santa Catalina island is the victim of a wildfire. They have had to evacuate over 3,000 people and about 4,000 acres has been torched. Hopefully, the residents are safe and sound and people’s homes will ulitmatley be safe and sound. We visited there last summer and it was…

” I’ve taken up knitting. I have this strange feeling that the blueprints and my knitting instructions got switched. I may be knitting a ranch house.” Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I was ten years old and was at a friends slumber party. We had just watched the Outsiders and my…

Before I went to college I hated coffee. I hated the bitter taste, the aroma, and the addicts who drank it. That was before I got a job at a coffee shop. That’s where I was introduced to the beauty of adding chocolate, flavors, and whip cream to make a delicious addictive treat. Now ten…

According to Flickr! this is my most popular photo. It’s a picture of one of the roses Simon gave me which I took last year.

How cute are these flower vases from the Moma store? I thought these Flex vases could make a nice arrangement. I liked the idea of these grasping bud vases but I’m not sure I would have a place for them in my home.