Close Encounter with a Hummingbird
While taking this photo, before 8am — Bee Balm in the morning sunlight — A large buzzing flyer startled me, nearly buzzed right into my right ear. I gasped with […]
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Morning Report: Open Garden Day 2016
Today in Topsfield and Boxford, it is Open Garden Day from 10am – 4pm. This year, we were not invited to participate (the organizer likes to always feature new gardeners),
Support Report: Memory Café July 2016
Yesterday, Karl and I hosted, with four volunteers, seven Sunday Stroll & Memory Café guests. Five of the seven guests were curious visitors who had noticed our signage on the
Rain or Shine: Memory Café!
Just a reminder: Our Sunday Stroll and Memory Café, scheduled for Sunday, 11am – 2pm, will take place rain or shine. If raining, please meet us at the Caretaker’s Cottage
Morning Report: Bullfrogs & Beavers
Last night we observed a bullfrog chorus and the foraging of our local beaver gang. Who knew? Beavers eat water lilies! Beavers are herbivores, they can live up to twenty-four
We Buried Billy the Kitty This Morning
Billy the Kitty was Karl’s cat, and a lovable and beloved presence in our home. Billy lived a good life for seventeen years, and was well cared-for by Karl, myself,
Morning Report: Foxtail Lily 1st Year Bloom
In 2013, as a 1st Year Anniversary planting, Karl and I planted five peonies and four foxtail lilies in a patch along the Orchard Ave. Now 2016, this is the
Morning Report: Lilies Begin!
MA State Senator Joan B. Lovely followed up – just yesterday – on our ALZ Advocacy Day invitation to come and see Rest.Stop.Ranch Respite Retreat Center. She represents our “Second