Author: Ethel Smith, Minnesota

What a Wonderful World

Thank you, Chriss! It’s so great to see how well the four-legged critters can adapt to each other sometimes! Ah, if only we two-legged critters could do that! It’s 40 degrees outside – wheeeee! We Minnesotans so enjoy a dash…

Rapture

Lovely, Melissa! We had Spring on Sunday – it got up to 41 degrees! I hope it won’t be too long before the real Spring, but it’s back to the teens today! On the deer subject, my daffodil beds as…

Mary Lou’s Winter

Beautiful as long as the branches are not coming down on your house! Great photos, Mary Lou – here in Minnesota we’d like to get above freezing for a change, and maybe some fresh snow to cover up the gray…

Kuekenhoff photos

Kathy, thanks for the lovely Keukenhof photos! I was there in April on the World Daffodil Tour, and it was so amazing then also. The flower arrangements were so different and so creative both times! Your photos sure brighten up…

Mealy bugs

Better a dead bug, any time! I’m STILL finding mealybugs down in the depths of my tazettas – they should at least be staggering drunk by now from all the alcohol I’ve sprayed on those plants! Ethel Smith in MN