Hereford Zone
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Bug of the day
Sometimes the best bug is a dead bug. And today Harper and I found a really cool dead bug. It was about the size of a house fly, but irredescent blue and green, and it had a really long stinger. I have never seen one of these flying around. Just as well. The stinger is Continue reading
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Life’s a jungle–eat raspberries
Turn your back on things for a bit, watch a few thunderstorms roll through, and the yard becomes a jungle. Weeds sprout tall and vines creep in, around, and over everything. Multiply that by a few years and even things you planted start to take over. In the front of my house, the dark north side where Continue reading
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Where there’s smoke…
Where there’s smoke at Maywood there may be a driver on 83 who thinks the woods are on fire. We live at the dead end of nowhere bordering an interstate. In summer we can’t even see the highway. We hear it, though– a constant whoosh that is immensely soothing to our 6 week old grandson. Continue reading
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Smelling the roses…
“Life comes at you fast.” We all love those insurance commercials because we could all have our turn starring in one. Sometimes it even involves a big insurance claim, like for my daughter who recently went through labor with their first child while her husband dealt with a massive basement disaster. Other times, we get caught up Continue reading
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Fluffball 2 (or is it 3?)
Lately there is always some drama going on around here. It has gotten so intense that I was really looking forward to the drive to Tennessee this weekend for a nephew’s wedding. Initially I was dreading using Memorial Day weekend for an all day drive, but sometimes you just need to get away and you don’t even care Continue reading
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Sage Blossoms
Sage blossom–it sounds like a paint color that my daughter Kristin would pick, except that she picks variations on sage green. Sage blossoms are purple. I didn’t even know that sage got flowers until two years ago. (Just shows how “expert” a gardener I am.) At that point my plants had decided they were mature enough Continue reading
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Tadpoles
What do you do when you and your favorite five year old find yourselves stuck at home on a gorgeous sunny morning? Check out the tadpoles, of course. We had gone down to the field to see how the blueberry plants were doing and, while I was yapping on the cellphone, I tried to distract him by making Continue reading
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Fête du muguet
I’ve been around long enough not to be surprised, but I’m still delighted at how things bloom every year like clockwork. It is now May and the lilies of the valley are opening their little bell-shaped flowers right on schedule. In France, May 1st is the Fête du Muguet, when one gives bouquets of lily of the valley Continue reading
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Mondays at Maywood
Mondays at Maywood are my musings from my corner of the Hereford Zone. So far the posts on my MaywoodLiving blog have been mainly read by friends, family, and whoever reads my husband’s Facebook posts, but The Zone Magazine has invited me to share my posts via their website on Mondays. So welcome Hereford Zone readers! Maywood is the property on which Continue reading
Slightly Off the Grid 