If you would have a lovely garden, you should live a lovely life. – Shaker saying When I first saw the Urban Cabin the garden looked like this: A few years later, and a couple things planted here and there, and the garden looked like this: Then we remodeled, tore off the back of our […]
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Timber!
Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Alas, poor Poplars. We knew thee well. But last Friday: Timber! Down they both came. All sixty feet of them. Thank you Ballard Tree Service for doing such an awesome job […]
Garden metamorphasis: The end of an era at the Urban Cabin
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton, novelist and poet, 1912-1995 Faithful readers of my blog will remember that Big Papa and I fondly refer to our house as the Urban Cabin. And for good reason: our small, humble home was built in […]
A little birdie told me
Last weekend we watched local family drama play out in our backyard. Three robin chicks were leaving the nest. The first thing that clued us in was all the commotion in the trees, tweeting, chirping, squawking and the flurry of wings. Soon, we spied two chicks in our plum tree. Shortly afterwards, we saw chick […]