This is the Annual Fair in the town of Heath, and this is the Event. The youngest children are learning how to work with, and treat small lambs. I can tell you that  there is a helper to arrange the lambs and they do get in place. (more…)

When I look around our backyard garden I can’t help wanting to make new beauties. This area is a new beauty of getting rid of our raspberries, which were no longer useful. So this is the beginning. (more…)

My husband gave me a birthday gift of  a bird feeder. Yesterday we watched and watched the bird feeder but nothing happened. (more…)

When we moved into Greenfield  10  years ago, I started creating a garden in back of our house. There was nothing besides a skating rank for children, but my planted trees and flowers came slowly. By 8 years  the garden was full.  Then I started thinking about what to do. This week I decided I had to rip down the Raspberries – which had not been producing. I immediately began to cut down all the berries. (more…)

On Sunday Henry and I drove up to Heath, our old farmland, to join our good friends – with children – on  a glorious day. For 30plus years we lived with wonderful  people in our little town. (more…)

I was told that Cecropia caterpillars eat and grow all summer, molting four times and changing color from black to yellow to green. I then remembered that last year, when I visited my friend Susan, she showed me little black creatures who have more colors to follow. This year when we visited Susan we were looking at green caterpillars – because the colors have changed from other shades. They can grow to four or five inches long. and this one is not quite that big yet. (more…)

Rory is our grandson  and he knows about plants like this Chinese Money Plant. (more…)

My garden has many, MANY, daylilies with beautiful colors. They are blooming more and more every day. (more…)

Finally – I am finding beautiful daylilies in my garden. There are so many colors and shades. (more…)

We  have been enjoying the special spot where we can watch our roses growing together in the area outside the kitchen door. Lion’s Fairy Tale has pink and creamy shades with an apricot center. (more…)