Grape hyacinths, discovered in my front lawn.… Read the rest...

Since I mentioned last week that the pink hyacinths planted out front always bloom a week later than the blue ones, I thought it fitting to post a picture of the pink ones a week later, as well. Of the two colors, I prefer these, but they never put on… Read the rest...

I really, really wanted Noodle to wear a collar. I think cats with belled collars are the cutest thing. So we got her an adorable pink collar (Pink since not everyone knows that tortoiseshell cats are almost always female) and put it on her.Sadly, Noodle did not share our sentiment,… Read the rest...

I love the idea of gardening, but gardens don’t love me. My mother, grandmother and great-grandmother’s gardens were always beautiful, but I think my sisters were the ones who inherited their green thumb. I certainly didn’t!Despite my shortcomings as a gardener, though, the hyacinths I planted when my husband and… Read the rest...

Because Noodle is a particularly naughty cat, we can’t trust her to stay out on her own at night. It’s not the jumping on desks or knocking things over that concerns me, really, but her penchant for chewing on wires. We’re technophiles, there’s wires everywhere. She’s good about not doing… Read the rest...

When I was a kid, I never cared for autumn. I didn’t like the colors or the weather, didn’t like the onset of winter. I still can’t say I like the onset of winter, but my feelings about the colors that come with fall have changed.Naturally, this Japanese maple presented… Read the rest...

Like most cats, Noodle is fond of blankets. Unfortunately for her, the dog is also fond of blankets… in a different way. Xochitl thinks blankets are delicious, so there are no longer any blankets kept on the furniture for Noodle to curl up in.… Read the rest...