Category Archives: Gardening

Springtime at our house

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David planted these hyacinths and tulips as a birthday present to me last November. The hyacinths started coming up right before March and the tulips started blooming and opening up last week. This is our first year having early Spring … Continue reading

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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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We went to Pittsburgh this summer to attend the admission information session at Carnegie Mellon University. After sitting through the session and walking around the campus, Jacob decided that he is likely to not be interested in the academic tradition … Continue reading

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Our Spring front porch

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Our climbing rose has finally bloomed today on our 19th wedding anniversary.

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Autumnal front porch

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Autumn John Clare I love the fitfull gusts that shakes The casement all the dayAnd from the mossy elm tree takes The faded leaf awayTwirling it by the window-paneWith thousand others down the lane I love to see the shaking twig Dance till … Continue reading

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La Rochelle and College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine

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On our last afternoon on Mount Desert Island, we visited La Rochelle Mansion and Museum and walked around the campus of the College of the Atlantic. La Rochelle La Rochelle is a waterfront mansion built in 1903 in the Georgian … Continue reading

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Our house this Spring

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Our home received a makeover this Spring on both the inside and outside. We filed a claim with our home insurance company last Fall for soot damage and received an assessment from a home renovation/restoration company from Elizabethtown. So, when … Continue reading

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Ward-Meade Park Botanical Gardens in Topeka, Kansas

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For Spring break fun this year, we headed to the heartland to visit our Aunt Karen and David’s hometown. Usually when we drove to Kansas through Indiana and Illinois, we would see corn fields along the whole way. This time … Continue reading

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Adornments for our back patio

Begonia (red), vinca (white), succulents and purple Angelonia.

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Our front porch this Spring

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Our color theme this year is purple and white. We hope to have more white flowers on our front porch this summer. African daisies in the window flower box White and purple verbena in hanging baskets Purple petunias in pots

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Mother’s Day’s picnic at historic Whitehall in Louisville

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Most of the flowers were only in buds last time we visited Whitehall, so we didn’t see much of the flower garden there. It was also an overcast, slightly drizzling day. This time, thanks to the intermitten sunshine, we got … Continue reading

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