Every gardener should have a tall sunflower jungle picture. So this year is my chance. I planted a few in what I thought was the least favorable corner of the garden. And…
Category: Who Am I
Posts to help folks get to know me
Daylily Summer Joys
Summer Joy One of the true joys of summer for me is growing daylilies. They don’t require a lot of care and they reward me with many blooms, each one lasting only…
Reflections on a small blogging milestone.
400 Entries I’ve been blogging for almost 20 months now and today the totals on my blog dashboard went over 400 entries. Half of them are posts and the rest are fairly…
Adirondack Vacation Days
We were able to carry on our almost annual tradition of spending a few days inside the famous Blue Line, Adirondack State Park, last weekend. This year it was at our…
Arkport Class reunion
Great evening! Lots of laughs! Cousin Ken Isaman is a great emcee and stand-up comedian and gets lots of help from our class. He and Shirley Kilbury Chapman did a superb job…
Grace Gardens — A beautiful spot
[nggallery id=27] You could call it the mother lode of daylilies, but I just cannot resist the sheer beauty of a hillside filled with a variety of hemerocallis in bloom. That is what…
News! We are to be Grandparents!
JoAnne and I are on the proverbial cloud nine as we have recently learned that our daughter, Keely, and her husband Mark are expecting! Early next year we are to become grandparents…
Strawberries: I’ve been waiting for this!
As a hobby gardener, sometimes it is a while between good harvests of one particular crop. That’s the way it has been with me and strawberries. For several years I nursed an…
Busy weeks: Are they related to a late Easter?
It seems like the weeks since Easter have been unusually busy for me. How about you? I’m wondering how much of this is related to the late date of Easter? Easter was about…
Reflections on Speaking at Houghton Chapel
I remember as a student attending the mandatory chapel services at Houghton College. Since I was taking mostly Bible and related courses and was already active in church leadership in my home…