The garden center got me again, five women who changed the world without being thanked for it, and I cannot contain myself about the new Monty Don show. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I…
Spring has arrived, the containers are ready and I found three books that are going straight to the top of the list This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I have…
April means peonies, Easter, open windows and the particular pleasure of a spring afternoon with a good book. Here is what the month looks like from here. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn…
Four days of sunshine, sneezing and something new coming up out of the ground every morning. I looked out the back door Sunday morning and there they were. Four peonies, unfurling themselves out of the pine straw as if they could not wait to put on their yearly show. Every single day now something new…
Throwing in the towel on the circle, two films worth watching and a weekend that has cocktails, bikes and absolutely nothing on the schedule I am throwing in the towel on the circle. Five years. Five years of planting, hoping, watching things bloom beautifully for exactly two months and then finding out the deer consider…
Is it spring? Is it winter? According to the Pinecones & Acorns weather desk, it is officially neither. This week we had overnight temperatures in the high twenties and thirties and then climbed into the seventies by afternoon. I left the house in a parka and came home after lunch in a t-shirt. I think…
It was still dark outside when the first chirp came. Then another. Then another. Bill never moved. The pups never moved. It was just me and the birds, and apparently we had all decided — or they had decided and informed me — that it was time to begin the day. Did you know there…
Cold weather, Outrageous Brownies and the particular joy of a Sunday with nowhere to be. What a difference a week makes. Last week I was complaining about seventy-eight degrees in March and this week the cold is back. Overnight temperatures in the thirties for the next few days. Yippee — and I mean that sincerely….
A first butterfly, a nervous thunderstorm, three books I cannot stop thinking about and the recipes I am making this weekend. Friday Favorites is here. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase I will earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying…
The clocks sprang ahead, my knee had other plans and I have been on the sofa with a gel pack and a very good book. Come sit with me. Yesterday was my least favourite day of the year. The clocks sprang ahead an hour and just like that, daylight saving is back. I am a…
A pottery fest, a reluctant pool day, two stunning home tours and the green pieces I am loving this spring. Come sit with me. Can I be honest? It is March and it is seventy-eight degrees. Yesterday the same. I do not like it. Summer is so long in the South that this feels too…
A lemon dessert bar that you will love, an eyelet tunic for spring, three books and a snake. It is going to be a warm weekend here — the kind of warm that feels like a tease of things to come. High seventies today and almost eighty tomorrow. My containers are looking sad and I…
