Category Archives: Daeja’s Garden

Mélange

Posted on May 27, 2023 by daeja's view

What a month it’s been! Beautiful days, some lazy indulgences, some quirky sights to be seen. Due to the outrageously fine weather, I’ve spent some significant (and perhaps a bit wasteful) lengths of time just hanging out on The Urban … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Birds, Cooking, Daeja's Garden, Food, Friends, Gardening, nature, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™ | Tagged blue, doing nothing, grandparents, May, purple, retirement, spring flowers, the most beautiful May, wild food | Leave a comment

Moving Right Along

Posted on May 21, 2023 by daeja's view

Time seems to be whipping by at a pretty good clip. It feels as though we are all in some sped up animation. During a conversation with a friend years ago, we expounded on the theory that time goes faster … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Birds, Daeja's Garden, nature, Perspective, Photography, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather | Tagged age in fractions, bring on the rain, late May blooms, time, time by flowers | Leave a comment

Early May on The Urban Porch ™

Posted on May 11, 2023 by daeja's view

It’s kind of nice to roll out of bed and sit out on the porch in the early morning, cup of coffee in hand, watching the neighborhood come awake. You would think with all the rain, sun and early blooming … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Stories, Daeja's Garden, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Spring, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Wildlife | Tagged crow, neighborhood, nuisance squirrel, poppies, views from my porch | Leave a comment

Oddballs and Mishaps Around “The Urban Porch ™”

Posted on April 26, 2023 by daeja's view

So what’s happening on and around The Urban Porch ™ this week? Some lovely rain, prompting the grass to suddenly get so crazy high that I actually mowed for a second time. That might be an April mowing record. Inspired by … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, nature, Regrets, Spring, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Weird | Tagged garden idiosyncrasies, I shouldn't have planted that, invasive garden plants, shade garden, shade plants, The Urban Porch ™ | Leave a comment

Unspooling

Posted on April 18, 2023 by daeja's view

I can’t believe I’m back again posting so soon, but it seems the season is suddenly unspooling so quickly that I can’t keep up with it and feel the urge to share my somewhat nerdy excitement about the flora/fauna explosion. … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds, Daeja's Garden, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Spring, The Urban Porch, Uncategorized, Vent, Weather | Tagged dealing with irritation, neighborhood, rapid onset of spring, spring blooms, The Urban Porch, transcending frustration, turning to nature | Leave a comment

Boom!

Posted on April 14, 2023 by daeja's view

Boom! It’s only mid-April and already the grass on this little patch of front yard suddenly got so dense that I realized I better mow it now, before it gets too difficult to push through. Has Spring come on with … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, Photography, Spring, The Urban Porch, treasures, Uncategorized, Weather, Wow! | Tagged high on spring, spring flowers, the season of Hope, The Urban Porch, warm April | 1 Comment

Departures and Arrivals

Posted on April 8, 2023 by daeja's view

The population in the vicinity of The Urban Porch is experiencing many changes. My wonderful neighbor who has been renting the upstairs of the house directly next door for the last two years just moved out last weekend, on to … Continue reading →

Posted in Are you kidding me?, Birds, Daeja's Garden, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Spring, The Urban Porch, Uncategorized, Wildlife | Tagged good and bad neighbors, homemade yogurt, neighborhood changes, neighborhood vibes, relief, spring flowers, trauma from bad neighbors, using up the harvest, what to do with celeriac? | Leave a comment

Planticide

Posted on November 30, 2022 by daeja's view

It appears the cycle is beginning again. It was about eleven years ago when I first posted about the sudden neglect of a few houseplants, here – Black Thumb. The particular incidences of “planticide” that occurred with some of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Daeja's Garden, House plants, nature, Uncategorized, Weird | Tagged black thumb, brown tips on leaves, dead cactus, dying houseplants, killing my plants, sick of my houseplants, too much water or not enough?, why are my plants dying? | Leave a comment

Little Bird

Posted on July 18, 2019 by daeja's view

Following a quick but torrential downpour and some gusty winds, the S.O. discovered a fledgling robin scooting around between the dying iris foliage in our front yard. The linden tree immediately nearby is the most likely place it came from, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Stories, Birds, Coping, Daeja's Garden, grief, Regrets, Uncategorized, Wildlife | Tagged death, fledglings, grief by proxy, saving a bird, the right decision? | 2 Comments

Revival

Posted on June 11, 2013 by daeja's view

When I first moved to this latest house in a long line of homes, one of the more lovely aspects of the place was a gorgeous, well-established white peony that someone had planted by the front of the fence. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, Photography, Spring, Uncategorized | Tagged monkey's paw, Monsanto, mutant plant, peonies, plant poison, weed killer | 4 Comments

Nettle Peace

Posted on May 12, 2013 by daeja's view

A few years ago I was drumming with a number of women on the side of a mountain not far from where I live, at the home of a local herbalist. Outside her front door she had a patch of … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, Spring, Uncategorized | Tagged cooking with nettles, nettle fest, nettle stings, stinging nettle antidote, stinging nettles, wild plants | 5 Comments

Adventure and Distraction in the Autumn Garden On a Saturday Morning

Posted on October 6, 2012 by daeja's view

I decided to spend just a few hours this morning cleaning up. Just a few, since we had plans in the afternoon.. a couple of hours, before that gardening backache sets in. Just enough to tidy up, because I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, Humor, Uncategorized, Wildlife | Tagged autumn garden, distraction, fall clean-up | 6 Comments

The Light Has Changed

Posted on September 20, 2012 by daeja's view

The light has changed. There is a perceptible glow that heralds the arrival of Autumn. It is moody and wistful, filled with wishes, yearnings and memories. The sky becomes an achingly beautiful blue, or a moody, layered steel, or glows. … Continue reading →

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, Uncategorized | Tagged Autumn, autumn light, cherry tomatoes, end of summer, Fall, Harvest, kale, raw kale recipe, Recipes, urban garden | 13 Comments

Alba, In the Shade of the Japanese Maple

Posted on April 21, 2012 by daeja's view

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being – Swami Vivekananda

Posted in Daeja's Garden, Gardening, Photography, Spring, Uncategorized | Tagged Bleeding Hearts, dicentra, dicentra spectabilis "alba", Swami Vivekananda, white bleeding hearts, white dicentra | 4 Comments