Headed to the Thursday afternoon farmer’s market at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens today on my way home from work. I found some wonderful items like freshly-picked local strawberries. Not the giant ones from California that you find at the grocery store; these are like smaller sweet ruby jewels. I’m going to pair these tonight…
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I live in Akron, Ohio with my husband Greg, our dog Ted, and a pantry full of flour and sugar.
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a hiking kind of saturday
Today on our mission to stay more active, Greg and I journeyed to Kent to check out the new hike and bike trail that just opened in the last couple of weeks. The trail runs along the Cuyahoga River, and there’s a pretty steep path down to the main trail. A great deal of the…
my newest plantings
After visiting the Cleveland Botanical Gardens we headed out to Chagrin Falls to check out the Eagle Creek Garden Center. What a nice garden center. While there, I came across quite a wonderful selection of coleus. It’s been several years since I included coleus in my summer landscape. This year, I couldn’t pass up these…
Cleveland Botanical Gardens – June Visit
We had a nice visit today to the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. Well, mostly nice. It was very buggy. Here are few pictures from the visit. You can view the entire set here.
what the heckles, mr. speckles?
I haven’t really had much to say lately. Not much has been going on. Lots of work. On my day off Thursday, I ran to the garden center and picked up a couple flats of annuals. Came home and got them in the ground. Yea, for getting something accomplished. Loving the new washing machine. Besides…
Root Beer Bundt Cake
I enjoy baking quite a lot. But cakes are not my favorite to make. There seems to be much more pressure on the final outcome. Now cookies, cupcakes and brownies…no problem. They all seem easier, more care-free to make. At any rate, we’re heading over to Michele’s for a cookout this afternoon. I’m bringing the…
A Day In the Gardens
We enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon touring the grounds and gardens of Stan Hywet today. The iris and peonies were in bloom. Click here to view the set of pictures, or click here to view them in a slide show.
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