six on Saturday, 7 August 2021
My garden is essentially green these days, except for a few spots of color from some very worn black-eyed Susans and yellow rosin weed flowers, and from my favorite wildflower, excepting those black-eyed Susans--the Carolina lily (Lilium michauxii) pictured in the featured image. I remember that when I first saw this graceful, colorful flower I …
six on Saturday, 19 June 2021
1. I have to begin my six on Saturday today with Blackeyed Susans because I consider them a namesake, and they bloom at the time of my birthday in mid June. (For those reading After Eden in email, I remind you to click on the blue post title and view it in your browser to …
Wordless Wednesday, 9 June 2021
six on Saturday, 22 May 2021
1. My offerings today are neither unusual nor terribly enlightening, but they do represent what is going on in the garden right now. Unfortunately, I missed posting photos of most of my irises and various native wildflowers while I was working on some other projects for the past few weeks. But as the featured image …
Wordless Wednesday, 5 May 2021
six on Saturday, 17 April 2021
Things are finally beginning to get colorful, although the weather remains erratic, going from 80 degrees Fahrenheit at the beginning of the week to 65 today. But, no tornadoes this week, so no complaints from me. The featured photo keys my first entry this week, a bed of brown bearded irises that went from one …
six on Saturday, 3 April 2021
This week's six are all flowering plants that just come up where they will among the leaves and in the so-called lawn. The only credit I can take for them is that I don't cut them down with the lawn tractor or the edger. But for the most part, they are bright-faced little plants and …
six on Saturday, 13 March 2021
I want to remind my email followers again to click on the blue title of the post to switch from email to the web to see the featured photo and get a better layout. And I want to remind all readers to visit the page of The Propagator for a feast of photos and guidelines …
you can’t see the forest for the forest floor
I’ve written quite a few “Six on Saturday” posts and published several photographs on “Wordless Wednesday” since last March, but I’ve not written one piece in the character of the original After Eden posts. It is time to do so. To do it, though, I want to go back about a year to the Alabama …
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