Tales from FAR Manor

…when the daffodils start blooming. This clump is just across the driveway from the front yard. A good reminder that winter doesn’t last for...

Gardening in Georgia is always a crapshoot. One can  usually  deploy plants that don’t handle frost well once mid-April rolls around… but no...

Mason was out of school, this last week, and I’ve decided to try taking days off when he’s off—just in case we get the chance to do somethin...

Soon after lunch last Sunday, Daughter Dearest caught me in the kitchen. “Can you take these and toss 'em in the woods?” she asked, hand...

Thanks to the wonderful collection of wisdom that is the Internet, I now know what a couple of our mystery plants are. Call it “Carolina...

My God… it's full of pines! As I’ve mentioned before, the landscaping around FAR Manor is largely invasive, and aggressively so. But...

Same thing happens every year, at least since we routed the kitchen/laundry drains to the back yard: tomato seeds get washed down the drain,...

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, this would be a looooong blog post. We keep getting cool snaps, and I keep thinking “this one must b...

Last Sunday was Easter, and that’s the day when the kids get christened. Mason was right up there to get his head wet and he didn’t mind the...

Some longer-time readers may remember when the developers got too close , about a month before I posted the first episode of FAR Future . Wh...

The road out front of the manor is lined with all sorts of stuff this time of year. Some of it blooms, some doesn’t, and the economy sucks e...

The blueberries peaked and dried up the week I was suffering from cramps in my back muscles, so I didn’t get too many. Even more unfortunate...

…west? This is Planet Georgia. The sun sets wherever the pod people say it sets. Just ask them! The three-day weekend is about 1/3 over. Som...

Summer is hitting Planet Georgia with both barrels… as I’ve said before, the weather here has attitude. But it’s not stopping the flowers… A...

The daylilies are gone, but the tiger lilies are out now: A couple of them near this pair may have cross-pollinated with the daylilies; they...

A fitting name for this guy; it shoots straight up about 5 feet: The sheer height, plus the poofy looking ball on the end, means that you re...

We've got these really gaudy lilies out front, that have been looking like this for a week or so now… Here’s to a bright, colorful — sha...

Sounds like a good name for a rock band, huh? She has her accompanists… Like Sage. Sage adds a little spice to the music. She's pretty s...

Well. Now that the thunderstorms have passed through — and God knows we needed the rain here — I can say hello once again. It has been a wee...

But first: happy b-day to both my parental units, Mom yesterday and Dad today! Despite the drought, the plant life has managed to hold up re...