What a tight bunch
Instead of withering, the property-line Black-eyed Susans just keep getting thicker and thicker this year. What a season!
Welcome, Black-eyed Susans
The Black-eyed-Susans that sit between our house and the neighbors have said hello for this year’s flourish. It is comforting, this staggered arrival.
Thick as can be
I can picture this year’s crop of Black-Eyed Susan’s being used to drape over the back of a winning horse.
Black-eyed Susans emerge
I still don’t know if this hardy stand of Black-Eyed Susans grow on our lawn or our neighbor’s. Right on the line, they are. No matter, really. Beautiful they are. And on the day the blooms emerged, when night fell, my dear wife Karen and I heard the buzz of the cicadas when we let…
Hello, Rose of Sharon (and more)
My dear wife Karen’s careful clipping up front at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville has paid off again this month of August. She asked if I’d looked closely at the tallest of our front yard garden plants last weekend. The Rose of Sharon had bloomed, big and bright. I had to…
Mark Bialczak 