September 26, 2019
gem
farm
bounty, corn, dogs, fall, flower, garden, gem, gleaning, photography, sunflowers
The garden produced prolifically this year. It was a great year for watermellon and corn. Heck, even the squash lasted for several months before it was wiped out by the squash beetles.
Some of the last of the bounty is coming in now.
Pepper haul Sept
Cayenne
Jalapeño, habañero, hot banana, cayenne
Late September tomato
Pick a peck of peppers
The tomato plans and the peppers have lots more production to go before they peter out. Meanwhile, the corn and the sunflowers are done. So down they come.
Gleaned corn
Now you see it
Now you don’t
I will stand up the husks in a typical Fall display, probably tomorrow.
extra junk
Sunflowers down.
Beheadings galore
Now you see them
Now you don’t
Sunflower poles
Fall.
Winter is coming.
Shadow play
November 27, 2018
gem
art, flowers, nature, Photography, plants, travel, who knows
art, flower, flowers, gardens, little paradise lodge, nature, new zealand, photography, travel
Highway to Paradise
There are magic places in the world, created under intensity so focused that nature absorbs and reflects the power of the creator. The Little Paradise Art Lodge is one of those places.
Put together over 26 years by a Swiss artist who is both intense and incredibly human at the same time, the grounds are nothing short of remarkable.
We were not able to stay during this trip due to a birthday (paradox) conflict. But we will be back for sure. Even a short visit is highly recommended. We stayed for about an hour, enchanted the entire time.
You’ll be caught in the web little tourist
Enter the property
The lodge itself is hand built in such a quirky and delightful and natural way, it is hard to describe. Primitive, and yet so very planet earth.
Bedroom
Bathroom full of skipping rocks
Hand carved headboard
Living table
A couch fashioned from one piece of poplar
Though the lodge is a sight to see, the six acres of curated gardens are astonishing in their willy-nilly natural order.
We have always talked about a tree house like this
Lawnmower
The artist, touched
Fin
September 23, 2016
apothecaryshedster
animals, art, cute, farm, flowers, humor, nature, Photography, who knows
flower, nature, photography
like friends in the dew Watermelon Park Fest.
September 5, 2016
apothecaryshedster
cute, farm, flowers, humor, Photography, river, who knows
flower, garden, nature, photography, river, shenandoah river
May 17, 2016
apothecaryshedster
animals, cute, dogs, farm, flowers, humor, nature, Photography, who knows
dogs, flower, nature, photography, sophie
April 10, 2016
gem
dogs, nature, Photography, river
dogs, flower, nature, river, shenandoah, shenandoah river, sophie, Spring
The bluebells are out. Thousands and thousands of them for miles along the river.
June 8, 2015
apothecaryshedster
animals, farm, flowers, horse, humor, nature, Photography
cats, dogs, flower, nature, photography
So Pretty.
Lamb’s Ear
Virginia Beardtongue
April 19, 2015
gem
animals, farm, flowers, horse, nature, river
bluebell, dogs, flower, flowers, home, horses, jeffersonian tulip, jonquil, nature, paloma, photography, shenandoah river, sophie, Spring, tulip, willie
Virginia is gorgeous in the Spring. Flowers everywhere you look, even hidden in the grass. And miles and miles of bluebells by the river. There is nowhere I would rather be.
Jonquil guards the fence
Home is where the flowers are
Jeffersonian tulips
Tulips
Yard flowers
Violets
Sophie contemplates life at bluebell level
Bluebells in Virginia
Paloma’s first Virginia trot day
Willie says, what is that whirring noise?
Paloma leads
Willie goes around the tree for no apparent reason
Willie and Paloma
September 28, 2014
apothecaryshedster
animals, farm, flowers, nature, Photography, river
flower, nature, photography, river
Scratch and Sniff
Golden Bug
Winding through the Wingstems
Sciurus carolinensis enjoying Juglans nigra
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