Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Week Fifty One

Only brighter from here

Thursday, December 08, 2016

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Week Forty Nine

Installation at the Washington Pavilion

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Week Forty Seven

A colder walk to work

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Week Forty Six

I didn't know my new bushes would turn these pretty colors (now they just need to - PLEASE - last through the winter).

Sunday, November 06, 2016

Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Week Forty Four

Neat bench at the Retreat at Pointer's Ridge

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Week Forty Three

What time is it? Houseplant time!

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Week Forty Two

From my walk to work last Monday

Monday, October 10, 2016

Week Forty One

From the restored lobby of the State Theater in Sioux Falls 
(where I got to see a silent film with live accompaniment!!) 

Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Saturday, October 01, 2016

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Week Thirty Seven

The whole reason I plant a garden

Monday, September 05, 2016

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Monday, August 22, 2016

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Week Thirty Three

Jökulsárlón - Iceland is amazing

Monday, August 08, 2016

Week Thirty Two

My front yard on a foggy morning

Monday, August 01, 2016

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Monday, July 18, 2016

Monday, July 11, 2016

Week Twenty Eight

My garden + new (to me) 28-105 mm lens

Monday, July 04, 2016

Week Twenty Seven

One of my wildflowers

Monday, June 27, 2016

Monday, June 20, 2016

Friday, June 17, 2016

Garden's in!


It's such a relief to have the garden in!

This year, with some help from my dad, I tilled a compost/manure combo (8 bags of it) into the garden before planting. I also added Osmacote to help feed my veggies and flowers. I'm hoping both of those will help with the poor growing results I've gotten in the last few years.

My sister shared a bunch of seeds (and started tomatoes) that she'd gotten from the Rare Seeds catalog, so I'm excited to see how things turn out. I hear some of the tomatoes are yellow with blue stripes (!!).

I also got two different kinds of sunflowers this year - one that's bigger than the Mammoth ones I usually get (already forgotten the name) alternating with Lemon Queen sunflowers (shorter but should be a really pretty yellow).


As of yesterday, I also have straw and newspaper down around all the tomatoes, peppers, and between the radishes and herbs. I'm going to give the rows time to come up (and give myself time to get more straw) before I do the rest. If it works as well as it did last year (completely lifechanging), I'm looking forward to doing almost no weeding this summer. 

Monday, June 13, 2016

Sunday, June 05, 2016

Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Week Twenty One

At Palisades State Park

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Week Nineteen

Flowers at Whitewater State Park, MN

Sunday, May 01, 2016

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Week Seventeen

Blue Mounds State Park, MN

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Sunday, April 03, 2016

Week Fourteen

All tree branches, all the time ;) 

Monday, March 28, 2016

Week Thirteen

Looks like spring at Clinton Lake State Park

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Week Eleven

No dog butts this week (just a new camera body and 50mm lens, yay!!) 

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Week Ten

Warm weather? Time to get our butts outside

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Monday, February 15, 2016

Week Seven

Freezing fog + a tree in my backyard

Sunday, February 07, 2016

Week six

Another dried up branch and sky picture

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Week Five

Back outside again for week five

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Week Four


Continuing with the indoor photography - here's one of Mom's houseplants