Carolyn Bales
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Basically a professional hobbit.
Sugar snap peas are producing! I am always surprised and delighted when my yard grows actual food. A few years ago rabbits ate all my sugar snap sprouts. I put up 16" chicken wire around my raised beds and they've been fine ever since. These are Cascadia sugar snaps, by the way, and I'm in zone 7.
June 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Sugar snap peas are producing! I am always surprised and delighted when my yard grows actual food. A few years ago rabbits ate all my sugar snap sprouts. I put up 16" chicken wire around my raised beds and they've been fine ever since. These are Cascadia sugar snaps, by the way, and I'm in zone 7.
Throwback to a couple of days ago, when there was sun. 🌱
May 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Throwback to a couple of days ago, when there was sun. 🌱
Clair Matin is ready for her closeup. 🌱
May 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Clair Matin is ready for her closeup. 🌱
Zephirine Drouhin is effervescent, joyous, indomitable. Her winter is over and spring is here. Water was hers, and rich soil, and her roots have gone deep and the branches held up to the sun and even the aphids kept their depredations to a reasonable tax. 🌱
May 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Zephirine Drouhin is effervescent, joyous, indomitable. Her winter is over and spring is here. Water was hers, and rich soil, and her roots have gone deep and the branches held up to the sun and even the aphids kept their depredations to a reasonable tax. 🌱
Rose season has officially opened in my garden, as of 5/3/25, and I am thoroughly pleased about it. Roses are better than no roses! The first to bloom this year is Queen Bee. 🌱
May 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Rose season has officially opened in my garden, as of 5/3/25, and I am thoroughly pleased about it. Roses are better than no roses! The first to bloom this year is Queen Bee. 🌱
Irises are out! The irises are out! 🌱
April 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Irises are out! The irises are out! 🌱
What you do not see is the extensive collection of branches I pruned off my plum tree this afternoon. It was getting rampant. Pruning is super satisfying, did you know? Now it's less in the apple tree's personal space which I hope will aid the apple tree's efforts to make apples this year. 🌱
April 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
What you do not see is the extensive collection of branches I pruned off my plum tree this afternoon. It was getting rampant. Pruning is super satisfying, did you know? Now it's less in the apple tree's personal space which I hope will aid the apple tree's efforts to make apples this year. 🌱
My other blue flower is up: brunnera. I think it looks fabulous with Thalia daffodils. Blue and white is classic of course.
April 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My other blue flower is up: brunnera. I think it looks fabulous with Thalia daffodils. Blue and white is classic of course.
✨This is a dappled light appreciation post✨🌱
April 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
✨This is a dappled light appreciation post✨🌱
Today was the first morning this year I drank my morning coffee outside. You know how on snowy days everything seems hushed? This was the opposite. Highway noise sounded close and loud, I could hear the bells ringing at the distant Catholic church, and birds were out doing their bird thing. 🌱
March 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Today was the first morning this year I drank my morning coffee outside. You know how on snowy days everything seems hushed? This was the opposite. Highway noise sounded close and loud, I could hear the bells ringing at the distant Catholic church, and birds were out doing their bird thing. 🌱
HEYOOO sunbeams and daffodils. I am here for spring.🌱
March 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
HEYOOO sunbeams and daffodils. I am here for spring.🌱
I've got forsythia along the side of my house like party streamers. 🌱
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I've got forsythia along the side of my house like party streamers. 🌱
Most of my daffodils are up and blooming (zone 7). These little ones are in a front bed I haven't cleaned up yet, but they plainly do not care. Spring flowers do what they want.
March 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Most of my daffodils are up and blooming (zone 7). These little ones are in a front bed I haven't cleaned up yet, but they plainly do not care. Spring flowers do what they want.
Spring status: so the roses are starting to bud leaves and the fruit trees are starting to bud buds. I also include more beauty shots of the hellebore because I feel like we can use more flowers, and also the guardian dragon. His name is Llewellyn.
March 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Spring status: so the roses are starting to bud leaves and the fruit trees are starting to bud buds. I also include more beauty shots of the hellebore because I feel like we can use more flowers, and also the guardian dragon. His name is Llewellyn.
Hellebores! I planted this one last year, ignored it completely, and now it's blooming. Delightful. This is officially my first flower of the year. 🌱
March 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Hellebores! I planted this one last year, ignored it completely, and now it's blooming. Delightful. This is officially my first flower of the year. 🌱
My Thalia daffodils have been multiplying, so it was time to divide them. I always appreciate the generosity of a plant that makes more. 🌱
March 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My Thalia daffodils have been multiplying, so it was time to divide them. I always appreciate the generosity of a plant that makes more. 🌱
My Thalia daffodils are starting to pop up. We have less than a month of official winter left. Spring is actually coming, all.
March 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
My Thalia daffodils are starting to pop up. We have less than a month of official winter left. Spring is actually coming, all.
Reposted by Carolyn Bales
English is one of the few Germanic languages that maintains the "th" sound (found in words like "thatch", "thistle" and "thin") and no one is quite sure why. The ancestral Germanic language (called Proto-Germanic by linguists) had a "th" sound but it was lost in most descendants
February 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
English is one of the few Germanic languages that maintains the "th" sound (found in words like "thatch", "thistle" and "thin") and no one is quite sure why. The ancestral Germanic language (called Proto-Germanic by linguists) had a "th" sound but it was lost in most descendants
So the 2025 new color of Fiesta ware is Linen. It's... not terrible, but I would have preferred a color.
January 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
So the 2025 new color of Fiesta ware is Linen. It's... not terrible, but I would have preferred a color.
I have one of these and love it--it bloomed clear into December. I need to find a better trellis for it this year.
Beginner-friendly Mid-Atlantic #nativeplants 🌱 series #1: coral honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens
What's not to love? If you know gardeners in this area, you almost certainly know someone who can give you a cutting - or several. Plant directly in the ground in a sunny spot to encourage flowering.
What's not to love? If you know gardeners in this area, you almost certainly know someone who can give you a cutting - or several. Plant directly in the ground in a sunny spot to encourage flowering.
December 28, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I have one of these and love it--it bloomed clear into December. I need to find a better trellis for it this year.
Reposted by Carolyn Bales
Today's fun: I made felt sheaths for a pizza cutter and kitchen knife that had been lacking them. They are bright turquoise, of course.
December 6, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Today's fun: I made felt sheaths for a pizza cutter and kitchen knife that had been lacking them. They are bright turquoise, of course.
Relatable.
Just remembering that line from Puff the Magic Dragon and how for years I thought that one day I would be grown up enough to understand what ceiling wax was for (waterproofing the roof? hanging down in aesthetic wax stalactites?)
Well today I'm grown up and it's sealing wax
SEALING WAX
Well today I'm grown up and it's sealing wax
SEALING WAX
December 4, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Relatable.
November 27, 2024 at 3:40 PM
This is the time of year we start getting those last golden sunbeams on the last stubborn leaves around 4:30 pm. The tree is at our local public library.
November 25, 2024 at 11:20 PM
This is the time of year we start getting those last golden sunbeams on the last stubborn leaves around 4:30 pm. The tree is at our local public library.