A Little Bit About Gardening

Archive for January, 2013

Warm Days

Chicago was 60 degrees yesterday, Jan 29th of the year 2013.  Wow!  I road my bike without a jacket.  Very strange indeed.  I had put out some extra sunflower seed for the wildlife and spent a good amount of time watching this squirrel “plant” a bed.  We’ll see this summer if his efforts produce a [...]

Winter Blues

Nothing can make the winter seem longer than sitting in my house, sick, achy, constantly blowing my nose, and slipping in and out of consciousness.  Lucky for me, the Select seed catalog arrived.   It’s perfect for looking at a few moments and laying aside.  Perhaps that’s why I’ve got visions of meadows in my head [...]