Ohhhh the agony of the loss - compounded by "if only" or "what if" - You are much too hard on yourself! Your love is all he knew; not "mistakes," not failure to protect him.

Elderberries, creeping thyme, a great big garden - it all looks so beautiful! And productive!!

Making French toast and freezing some for later - why doesn't that work with pancakes?? Too much rain - we are in a drought. All next week, temps will be near a hundred. The lawn is already brown and crackly

Collies - yes! our second pair! you for reading and commenting. (You saw only a fraction of all the plants....)

A man and his toys! Er, equipment! #LOVE this. Your joy is palpable and as one who shovels by hand (who does all gardening by hand, inefficiently, often miserably), I rejoice with you: Within a few minutes,

Oooh, I love snakes, and I love your observations here. Our limbless little allies in the garden eat bugs and mice for us - must we find them so creepy? I need to acquire a healthy fear of snakes, or I

THANK YOU, thank you so much, for reading and commenting - you are a treasure! And you are right about those beetles, sluggish in the morning, busily flying out of our grasp in the afternoon. In the Quiet

Great insight! The truth is best hidden in the guise of fiction... Or, as you suggest, if you hide the truth in a fictional story, people will think, "Oh, it's just another fiction," when in

"And then they died." You remind me of a Peanuts cartoon in which Lucy is reading a book. “A man was born, he lived and he died. The End!”, she says, and tosses the book aside. Linus picks it

YES, your world view (tree view) makes sense! We impose order onto "chaos" (weeds) - or we impose disorder - depending on who's looking. I love love love the studies on how trees communicate

Ohh THANK YOU for this! Bugs and cute furry mammals (and weeds, and poison ivy) continue to plague my own gardening efforts. It's easier to show no mercy to a bug. But the little ground squirrels are so

I can't head over to Leofinance to vote for a fave (techno difficulties limit me to Hive) But Here's one already! And oh, man, I must stop rewarding my evil little ground squirrel.... NOT a vole, mole,

Why, THANK YOU!! I wasn't expecting that...!!!!

Aww, thank you for taking it all in stride, this brash and reckless rant I offered up (after the deadline, exceeding the word count) in response to your challenge. I do mean well. Really, I do! But: "No

Wow, wow, wow, you really nail it. Yes, people tend to offer trite (annoying) truisms and condolences, but I think most of them really do care and want to console, but just lack the words. Some say really

The Secret Life of Plants - how have I not read this yet? by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird, 1973 The Secret Life of Plants includes remarkable information about plants as lie detectors and plants as

Ohhhh I love you @myjob! A plant saver, rescuer, transplanter - a husband who pulls up plants and you take pity on them - You know, there is a big school of thought on plants having feelings. My niece

Gateway Garlic Farms posted this at Facebook: .... the new bio dynamic way. Most of the produce crops we grow here are not native to this continent so the predatory insect life has very little history

LOL Oops again Turns out, I did reply to your comment.... didn't see my own reply ... eh No explanations.

Thank you @yangyanje and please forgive me for not seeing this comment two years ago... TWO YEARS Good grief.... I may have to unblock notifications. Thanks again! LOVE and LIGHT!