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I never thought much about the personality and variety of daylilies until I stepped outside the other day with my pocket camera and snapped a bunch. Yes, of course I've planted them all myself over the past several years, but I can't say I really looked all that closely.What a wonderous display! Some throw their narrow petals outwards like cheerleaders enthusiastically waving pom poms. Others...

I know. I know. I just uploaded MORE gardening pics to bore everybody. You must think I garden 24/7. And I do talk to my plants. Its part of getting them to grow properly. It beats talking to yourself . One of natures most beautiful plants is called a " Moon Flower". It gets its name from the fact it only blooms at night. During the day the bloom furls itself back to a bud like...

In the days before I had a big flower garden (which puts me roughly at just last summer), I hadn't a clue about what fun and suspense and celebration and even mourning could go into watching stuff grow. Or not. Up until then, my gardening experience was pretty much marked by failure and neglect. Once upon a time, when the kids were much younger, I had the spouse dig me up a stretch of the front...

Some say that the eyes are the window to the soul, but to me, it's my pottery. Anyone can plainly see how I felt when I made each pottery piece. Pottery is such a fun way to express the soul. It is a vessel for my emotions and it results in fabulous works of art, which, if I may say so, I am very proud of. I believe that everyone with a love for something views that as their escape from the...

JUNE EDWARDS Agrarian – Samaritan -- Nonagenarian Ninety-one years ago in rural South Dakota, a buoyant baby girl was born in a log cabin to a pioneering farming family. With a balanced sense of adventure and doggedness, June Slocum Edwards has engendered a long and fruitful life, although she insists that her fate has “simply unfurled.” Twenty-four years after leaving the city...