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We have had quite a lot of rain, and yesterday when I was driving through a park I go to to hunt for mushrooms I took these photos of the flooded road. Even my Dog "Wiggles" wondered where the

My maternal grandmother Hazel loved flowers and she and my grandfather planted many on our farm . 70 to 80 years later I still enjoyed the flowering shrubs she and Grandpa planted so long ago. (

My grandmother planted these almost 90 years ago at the entrance to our driveway. Each year their blossoms remind me of her. I copy my grandmother and always try and find things for my gardens that will

Sunrise from my work this morning.

One of the ways we here in South Central Michigan know that spring is finally coming is the turtles trying to cross the roads. This is a snapping turtle. Snapping turtles are pretty large cold blooded

Some 80 to 70 years ago now my grandfather Marlow brought his bride Hazel to the homestead . As part of his campaign to win and intensify her love he planted all along a half mile of roads her favorite

Irises last spring

When I sell the ancestral farm to get away from the power hungry township politicians who sued me for 3 years to stop me from keeping even 1 hen on 53 acres. I want to buy a place I can use to grow forage

Today 243 years ago on April 19th, 1775 was the REAL day America was born. In the early morning hours, some 1500 Red-coated soldiers of King George III marched out of Boston under the orders of the Royal

For much of the last 8 years as the economy crashed down I have been living of the stores I put away when times were good. They are pretty much all gone now but it literally saved my live and kept me off

Every year my grandmother taught me to always plant flowers in our gardens. She said that way we could share with the Bees. I have every year even if all I can plant is a pot of flowers. Above are the

Redbud, attractive flowers, a nitrogen fixer, a bee forage flower and darn pretty. The flowers of the redbud tree bloom in the early spring . You can harvest the flower buds and add them to salads and

Lilacs are not only one of my favorite spring flowers having not only beautiful flowers most spring but also like many flowers have abundant and edible flowers. A delicious recipe to preserve the aroma

Cattle gazing across the landscape moved and controlled with portable electric fence are the main harvesting and landscape control system in the type of permaculture I want to practice on the new farm.

Over the summer I am selling the old family homestead. After some 170 plus years I am being driven to move by the ever increasing urbanization. Three years ago the township I live in sued me to prevent

If a government claiming to act within it's powers rescinds, suspends, or alters in any way, any part of the Bill of Rights, that government No Longer is Legitimate or legal and ALL TRUE American Patriots

My grandmother had these bulbs, she called them "Rain Lilies " They are a sensitive or tropical bulb but by taking them in each winter we have kept two pots alive. Each spring after the danger

One of my favorite things to do each summer is to take my camera and go for a car ride out in the country. Last summer While I was on one such ride I came across this farmyard. This particular farmyard

I plant a good sized vegetable garden, but one of my favorite parts are the flowers I plant amongst the vegetables. I planted these Lilies at the corner of one of my hand dug long garden beds about three

One of my favorite times, when the rosy tendrils of dawn stretch out their fingers of brilliant pinks and reds. The colors of the sunrises are each different and each beautiful. I marvel each new dawn,