Kerry’s Garden

A couple of days ago I was watering the potted items on the back patio. I noticed a young mantid on the thyme trying to escape the shower. I decided to move her to a safer place with some critters for her lunch. I walked around the garden and honestly could not [...]

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Yesterday morning we hit the ‘world’s longest yard sale’ as we do every year. Aside from the odd rude individual that sees nothing wrong with parking their UHaul to block in several cars… it was a great time. I found an old Wagner Ware cast iron Drip Drop Roaster with the trivet included. [...]

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Walking in the yard a while back I noticed this crooked bamboo shoot coming up. How very strange…

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My SIL was in a nearby town during one of her many business trips. We had talked previously about her picking up a cherry tomato plant on one of her visits so I had saved one of the basket tomato cups back ‘just in case’. It was a little larger than I had [...]

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Knee deep in snow and there is still the promise of life. Did you ever stop to think of the amazing fact that a few key ingredients, seed, fertile soil, moisture, light and the correct temperature left to their own devices will produce such beauty? Sometimes, when the cold of winter gets to [...]

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Getting this picture was no easy task without a tripod. This was the best of about 60 or 70 that I took with different settings using my little Canon A570IS in manual mode. Taken at about 10:35pm, the specs are: exposure 1/2 sec, aperature f5.5, ISO 400 no flash using both the digital [...]

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