holiday summary

This year’s holiday decorations, in total: The Outside Lights: ST:TCT: The Regency Mantle: The Side-by-Side: The Built-In: The Display Case: The Holiday Table: It was a simple and easy holiday, exactly what we needed. May everyone’s new year bring good things.

under the wire

This was a rough but good year. Big projects and heavy schedules sit on the horizon and I’m working to clear the tedium of life prior to the chaos. I thought that included holiday decorations, but as Christmas neared neither of us wanted to wake up without a tree on Christmas, so I got to […]

blooming in the garden

The garden this morning and later in the rainy afternoon:

weekend review

There is plenty in bloom in the garden. Here’s a late photo review from this past weekend:

everybloom everywhere all at once

This weekend in the garden. All at once. Up in the side yard: Lilyfest: The rustic bed: And the rest:

lilyfest – rained out

The festival is rained out today, so let’s get up close and personal with the stars of the show! Asiatic lilies are among the shortest lilies, with rich saturated colors, no-to-slight fragrance, and rapid offspring production. Pura Desiertos: Pura Desiertos is the tallest of our short lilies, a saturated pink with a watercolor feel, no […]

the whole thing:

A photographic stroll through everything this past weekend.

week 2 of lilyfest ’25

Second weekend of our festival has the new opening act in peak performance, and several returning acts warming up for their turn in the lineup.

yesterday in the garden

A photographic stroll through yesterday’s blooms:

the slow opening of Lilyfest 2025

The headliners are warming up and the new opening act is lined up for a stellar debut. The Opening Act: Pura Desiertos opens Lilyfest 2025 with an amazing double bloom. Warming up on deck: Tiny Ghost prepares its set for 2025. A smaller, tighter group this year than previously, but bringing the game and ready […]