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This was the scene that greeted us last evening as we returned to the campsite after a day of garden visits. In the morning we went to Desca...

Sunday we left Arizona and will be on this campsite for the next week. Where? Well, today we were in the hot spot of the nation as the tempe...

Visiting Arizona and going home without a few cacti would be out of the question. I saw this bowl of cacti and euphorbias on sale along wit...

We never expected to see this scene, but this is exactly what we woke up to a week ago in Lordsburg, New Mexico, on our way to Phoenix for C...

It is easy to forget that we really do have a winter here in Texas. Some winters may be milder than others as have been the last couple of y...

May Dreams invites us to share what is blooming in our garden on this Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. The wintry weather may have arrived i...

One of the reasons we returned by sea from our recent trip to England, was the fact that there is really no luggage limit on a cruise ship. ...

Each year my garden is plagued by snails and pill bugs. For their size, the snails are barely 1/4" in diameter, they certainly can do a...

.......LEMON CURD. I have 5 improved Meyer lemon trees ( Citrus X meyeri Improved Meyer, ) all in pots. This is simply the best lemon; thin...

While the icy tentacles of winter were spreading over Central Texas last week, I was on a ship in the Sargasso Sea. Almost home after a Tran...