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Aasgard Pass Descent
If you’ve been reading here long enough you know that Chris and I went to Seattle and the Cascades for our 10th anniversary in 2012. I never actually finished sharing the photos from that time and since I don’t always have a lot of excursions and adventures to share these days, I thought would try to finish sharing those photos over the next few weeks. If you missed any of those posts you can flip through them here. The big chunk of time we spent in Washington State, the primary reason for going, was to hike in the Enchantment Lakes. We had a permit for the Core Enchantment Zone which…
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Compost Bin Update
When we installed the compost bin in early 2013 we knew that because we were using natural, untreated materials that we would eventually face rotting and need to come up with a different design. The compost bin is sill functioning but it is definitely in a state of slow decomposition. We’re going to have to come up with another game plan in another year or so. Here’s a chronicle of the pile over the last three years, with related posts near the bottom. Pre-compost pile, October 2012 January 2013 August 2013 November 2013 December 2015 Relevant Posts: The Future Compost Pile Compost Bin Complete Compost Bin Update
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Soul Gardening
Last Friday was our work Christmas party and we were able to go home a few hours early after the festivities. Chris was out of town in southern Louisiana for work, a four day trip that turned into 12 days. The weather was unseasonably warm, low 80s, and so I opted to take advantage of a few hours of solo time in the garden while Forest was still in daycare. It was glorious to get some uninterrupted gardening time in but I still felt pressed for time, not accomplishing the amount of tasks I would have normally been able to handle pre-kid. It was ok, though, I weeded half of…
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Wonder at Moody Gardens Pt. 1
I’ve written about Moody Gardens before. I worked there my senior year of college (2001-2002) in the education department staffing touch tanks and talking at the exhibits. The aquarium hadn’t changed in 2011 when we visited and it hadn’t changed *much* this time around but they were in the process of adding in a new exhibit in the center of the building, a tall, ciruclar aquarium that will go between the two floors of the aquarium where previously you could look down from the center on the second floor. That said, it still was a little ‘meh’ in many regards however Forest was very interested when we went over Thanksgiving…
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Late November Gardening
The weeks just slip on by, don’t they? And the garden still needs to be cleaned up to head into winter. I have no idea when this will happen. Short of digging out Chris’ monster fishing/work light to work in the dark in the evenings, it will probably be after Christmas until we formally hit the yard for cleanup. The butterfly ginger, above, needs to be trimmed back as a few of the stalks have gotten a little unwieldy. But, they are still blooming despite mid 30’s temperatures in the mornings. The woodland painted petals, Anomatheca laxa, are coming back again for a third round in the garden. This has…
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Introducing The Garden Path Podcast
Back in October I began flirting around with the idea of starting a podcast. The problem was that I had no idea how to even go about it! A little bit of reading online and an audio program download later, I was on my way to starting a podcast. I knew I wanted to start a gardening podcast because it seems like all of the ones I used to listen to have fallen by the wayside. I may not be an expert in gardening but most gardeners are not experts, just life long learners. So here I am, debuting this little podcast of mine. My goal with it is to…
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Currently: Late November
+In My Head I need to get back on the workout wagon this coming month. November ended up being a wash since I spent so much of it with vertigo. I still have the vertigo but it seems to be mostly when I’m laying down or when I’m dealing with a lot of action in front of me that has me needing to try to absorb and focus on a lot of things. We went to Moody Gardens aquarium in Galveston over the weekend and some of their tanks had me reeling. Christmas is around the corner and I am still in awe that we’ve come a full year from…
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On Being the Documentarian
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for awhile and opted for doing a video instead. It’s long, like always!
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The Woodlands Trail | Big Thicket National Preserve
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Fall in the Gardens at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center