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this moment
A single photo capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama. (And if you have a blog yourself, feel free to join in and leave a link … Continue reading
what is actually happening in the garden?
The answer is: surprisingly much! With November proving to be unusually mild (running around wearing a t-shirt in November is probably a most alarming sign regarding global warming), the garden still offers one or another surprise. Yesterday, we took the … Continue reading
garden update in macro
Slowly but steadily, our garden starts to look like an autumn garden…probably due to the high temperatures during the last months which caused everything to flower and grow incredibly fast. Vegetables are being harvested, beds are being cleared, the strawberries … Continue reading
late July garden update
The last garden update has been over a month ago and due to the sunshine and the high temperatures the garden almost exploded while I was on holiday. Karsten was doing his best watering the plants and weeding the paths … Continue reading
heat exhaustion
If your husband stands next to your neighbour’s garden and you think he is joking when he tells you that he sets fire to it in order to burn the weeds which have been happily blooming and seeding away this … Continue reading
holiday snapshot number five: the garden
After almost two weeks at the Baltic Sea, the little one and I went to my parent’s place and spent some wonderfully relaxing days at our very own summer resort. Our normal rhythm each day: waking up, then reading books … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Travel
Tagged flowers, garden, holiday, lady's mantle, summer, summer retreat
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summer on the balcony
This evening, the little one and I will be off to Germany where we will spend three weeks with my family. I am feeling a bit biased about it – on the one hand, I am looking forward meeting my … Continue reading
garden joy
It has been quiet on this blog (again). Basically because the last four or five (or six…) weeks have been quite exhausting….Our holiday in Scotland didn’t really bring the expected recovery and when we arrived home lots of work had … Continue reading
morning procedure
6:45 – I can hear a loud “mama! hello mama! …..oooh, ball! Baby ball!!” from the little one’s room (this night, she insisted on taking a ball to her bed, that’s why). 6:50 – the little one joins us in … Continue reading
start of the garden season
Since early February the little one and myself have been lurking around the garden to check whether it’s already worth gardening again. And I am happy to finally announce: the gardening season has started again!! Spring automatically means getting rid … Continue reading
familial entropy 