While many are shoveling out from deep blankets of snow-drifts, I would like to escape our white wintry hillside by recalling landscape tapestries of summer twenty-twelve. Storms of blossoms unfurl throughout the spring and summer here at Flower Hill Farm attracting pollinators, birds and other beasts to our gardens, fields and forest. It is this living tapestry of color, texture, fragrance and sounds that inspired me to create this blog four years ago . . . February 6, … [Read more...] about Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
While many are shoveling out from deep blankets of snow-drifts, I would like to escape our white wintry hillside by recalling landscape tapestries of summer twenty-twelve. Storms of blossoms unfurl throughout the spring and summer here at Flower Hill Farm attracting pollinators, birds and other beasts to our gardens, fields and forest. It is this living tapestry of color, texture, fragrance and sounds that inspired me to create this blog four years ago . . . February 6, 2009.Over the last … [Read more...] about Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
Gathering Wildflowers Fields and Meadows Gone To Sleepy Seed
Growing seasons green a field and meadow withdraw life filled colors fade quiet and stillness within November landscapes new life floats and waits Wildflowers for Gail gathered from this season past brighten up our day This cold and dreary day will pass, while warmer sunny days are forecast for Thanksgiving and throughout the weekend. May you all have a safe and happy holiday weekend. Let's not forget that when our ancestors first visited this land, it was filled with native wildflowers and … [Read more...] about Gathering Wildflowers Fields and Meadows Gone To Sleepy Seed
Gathering Wildflowers Fields and Meadows Gone To Sleepy Seed
Growing seasons greena field and meadow withdrawlife filled colors fadequiet and stillnesswithin November landscapesnew life floats and waitsWildflowers for Gailgathered from this season pastbrighten up our dayThis cold and dreary day will pass, while warmer sunny days are forecast for Thanksgiving and throughout the weekend. May you all have a safe and happy holiday weekend. Let's not forget that when our ancestors first visited this land, it was filled with native wildflowers and was also … [Read more...] about Gathering Wildflowers Fields and Meadows Gone To Sleepy Seed
Wednesday Wildflowers Buds and Birds
Dutchman's breeches Dicentra cucullaria Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis Yellow trout-lily Erythronium americanum Palm Warbler Arrived Three Weeks Ago Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia Trillium Trillium grandiflorum Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa Arrived Two Weeks Ago Highbush blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum Red Elderberry Sambucus racemosa Pileated Woodpecker Eastern cottonwood Populus … [Read more...] about Wednesday Wildflowers Buds and Birds
