I was sitting on the deck reading on Wednesday afternoon when I noticed a small dragonfly go by. It stopped on the tip of the car's ante...

Our spell of hot, dry weather may have saved the grapes this year. I'm no expert, but the growers were despairing of the wet and cold in...

We have four varieties of squash in this year's vegetable garden. One is courgette (zucchini), a summer squash, and we're harvestin...

I don't know what they're called, but I saw this bunch of pink flower spikes at the edge of the river the other day. It was the only...

We're harvesting tomatoes now. The garden is doing well, although we had some strong winds on Saturday that knocked over some of the che...

Hanging out on the deck, that is. I know there are still many days ahead when I'll be able to sit outside, but they're becoming fewe...

Nasturtiums. We have a lot of these in the vegetable garden. I planted some one year and they continue to re-seed themselves in one of the f...