Western Swallowtail One of my greatest joys this summer has been reaping the benefits of planting this buddleia last year, for it has emerged as the neighborhood Butterfly Cafe, and I have been there nearly daily to bear witness, to photograph and to share with loved ones, including those I know through social media! What [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2012 by Kathryn
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Once upon a time there was a wee small kitten wandering the vineyards of a very small village in the rugged county of Mendocino. The village had once been home to a tribe of Native American Pomo Indians. But that was long ago and now the village was on the decline, a place where people [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2012 by Kathryn
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I might have, had I imagined, known that the Steller’s Jay and I had not yet reached the limits of what our new friendship might hold. But I missed it, as, while I have years of experience raising and caring for canaries, and finches, and chickens, and a duck named Peggy (which ended very badly [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2012 by Kathryn
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Honestly, this story begins a full two years ago, even though it culminates in the last three days in these pictures. It began with a single bird talking to himself somewhere near my large back garden, though clearly not in my garden. The chattering reminded me of the same kind of talking on and on [...]
Posted on April 1st, 2012 by Kathryn
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Luna Today is the 14th birthday of my Maine Coon cat, Luna, and it would be all smiles and glory if we had not been on a very intense healing journey for the last three weeks. The mere fact she’s still on planet Earth is well worth celebrating. That is for sure! And many more [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2012 by Kathryn
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The following is an excerpt from my book Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden. Enjoy! Love and winter blessings, Kathryn xoxo After two years in North Carolina, I had made the decision to return to the West. Strangely, I knew one of the things I would miss about North Carolina were [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2012 by Kathryn
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November is Bee Month, apparently, as the Universe initiates me more fully into a life that includes more bees. Anyone who has seen the image above, first introduced to us upon the release of the film “Queen of the Sun” and now, on the cover of the book Queen of the Sun from Clairview Books [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2011 by Kathryn
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“You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.”~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery Longtime readers of my blog will recall I spent a goodly six months working with loving knitters in the US, UK and Canada to make and send over 100 beautiful handmade scarves to young schoolgirls in the very remote village of Askole, Pakistan. [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2011 by Kathryn
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Honeybee in borage As the sun falls further to the south as it crosses the sky in anticipation of the end of summer I suppose I have suddenly become nostalgic, particularly about the bees which live in abundance in my garden from spring through fall. Soon I will miss them so and will be thinking [...]
Posted on August 15th, 2011 by Kathryn
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“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau This story most appropriately is being told the week [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2011 by Kathryn
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