Dances With Flowers

Do you:

struggle with focus and concentration?
get easily distracted?
think you may have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?

Happy Fourth of July!  Or is it, for your pets?
When the bangs and whistles start, or else the loud thunder bangs of a lightning storm, your pet can take a sudden dive under the bed (or, as one dog-owner calls it, “heads for the bomb shelter”)
Loud noises don’t seem to bother some animals.  For others, [...]

As I write this, there isn’t much sun out there right now.  But it’s the 2nd day of Summer — and there will surely be some sun and heat before the summer’s over.  But I bet one thing you never thought of to help with the sunburns or heat exhaustion (for you or for your [...]

This spring has been a glorious one for the iris. We’re blessed with several different varieties, all doing their best to be exuberant and lovely this year.
Here’s a peek at some of them:
And here’s another section, from the Japanese irises (more dainty but very robust):
And, last but not least, here are some of the [...]

This week it’s been raining most of the time, with a few breaks between the clouds when the sun peeps through just for a couple of minutes or hours. When the sun comes out, it’s glorious — and I know the flowers are enjoying the rain. But. . .
While the garden is very [...]