Second tomato

No, the second tomato isn't anything like playing second banana to someone...I don't think so anyway.
I'm referring to the second tomato that's ripe enough to pluck off my indoor plant. Boy, this weak winter sun surely isn't enough for this endeavor to be very productive, but at this point it's just a test to see how long I can get it to stay alive. That it's still producing, is just an added benefit!

Unfortunately, several problem arose in the pursuit of the endlessly going tomato plant.

Zebrina: Gone but not forgotten

Thursday, January 26, 10:25PM. That was the time and day my oldest and dearest cat Zebrina slipped away from this world. She may be gone, but she is definitely not forgotten...it just took me this long to be able to give her a proper send off...or maybe not. It's starting to get a bit too blurry to write properly.

Groups of trees by any other name...

I asked you several months back--probably when the massive maple debate was going on between Julie Helms and Raymond Alexander Kukkee!-- what the difference was between a wood and a forest. Well, since then I've thought of and found a few other tree terms which baffled me. Okay, not so much baffled, but they did get me thinking. Why, for instance, do some people use them interchangeably when they have, in fact, subtle difference to each? Could be they just don't know them and I thought I might not either until I read up on them.. and I found I knew more than I thought I did. That happens a lot with me, oddly enough.

Here is what I found:

Happy St Valentine's day!

It’s Craft Tuesday, the day we take for talking crafts. Sewing, crocheting, knitting and other crafts come to save my sanity while the garden sleeps.

  As promised I'm going to show you what my crocheted  hearts were supposed to be. If you missed last week's craft Tuesday post, you'll know what a mess my facebook buddies made of my very innocent St. Valentine's day craft project.

Dish gardening

I have a dish garden. Know what that is? Sure you do! It's a tiny garden in a dish...duh! Want to see mine? Sure you do!

Real and fake Geraniums

Last time I told you about my little piece of a garden or fake geranium which I surprisingly rooted in a pot on a windowsill. Now I must explain why I insist on calling it a fake geranium. How in the world of gardening can a growing and flowering plant be fake? Well, I'll tell ya!

Fake Geranium but a real Pelargonium

New discovery

Know what I just newly discovered? Well, not exactly new. It's been more than a few months since I saw this, but I only just took the photo and actually remembered I wanted to tell you about it.