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Slice of Life Day 15: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Our “back-door” neighbors as I call them have an absolutely beautiful yard. Both the husband and wife love to garden and you can clearly tell. Most weekends, I’ll see one or both of them tending to flowers, vegetables, trimming this, moving that. It’s a constant battle – protecting the young…
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Memorial Day Weekend
It’s Memorial Day Weekend and for me that usually means I’m heading to my parents’ home for the long weekend to visit family. This year, my sister was planning to come out to my parents’ for a few extra days to do some wedding planning, but with everything closed it’s…
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9 Picture Books About Gardens
It’s Saturday in late July which means I’ll be spending much of my day working on my garden beds. I have a flower garden in front of my house (that is currently being taken over by weeds) and a vegetable garden that runs along the side of my house filled…
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Slice of Life Day 16: Looking Forward to Spring
It was 70 degrees yesterday and one of those glimpses into spring that just makes everyone in a good mood. It also got me thinking how much I’m looking forward to planting my garden this year! I grew up gardening with my parents. Both of whom have green thumbs –…
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#blogbookaday: Florette
Summary: “When Mae’s family moves to a new home, she wishes she could bring her garden with her. She’ll miss the apple trees, the daffodils, and chasing butterflies in the wavy grass. But there’s no room for a garden in the city. Or is there? Mae’s story, gorgeously illustrated in watercolor,…
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AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Gardening
Program Name: How Does Your Garden Grow? What: Offer one or a series of programs about gardening for your patrons. We do this every year and it’s some of our most well-attended programs. This year we’re offering – Backyard Composting, Vertical Gardening, Raised Bed Gardening and Container Gardening. Where: These classes are…
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#blogbookaday: Go Big or Go Gnome
Summary: “Laugh your whiskers off with Albert the Gnome in this charming and funny picture book about friendship, self-acceptance — and beards! A beard is the biggest point of pride for a Gnome, but poor Al can’t sprout a single whisker. Each year, Al feels left out of the Beards International…
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#blogbookaday: My Busy Green Garden
Summary: “So begins this lyrical tribute to the bugs, bees, and birds that make the garden such a busy place. With each turned page, more visitors appear, and all the while the “surprise”—a chrysalis—changes unnoticed until, on the last page, a butterfly emerges and flies away across the garden’s well-tended borders.…
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#blogbookaday: Anywhere Farm
Summary: “For any anywhere farm, here’s all that you need: soil and sunshine, some water, a seed. You might think a farm means fields, tractors, and a barnyard full of animals. But you can plant a farm anywhere you like! A box or a bucket, a boot or a pan almost…
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Blogging A to Z: Vegetables
During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. My theme for the month is Storytime Plans From A to Z. Each plan will have eight stories as well as four songs, fingerplays or rhymes to match the theme! As you can see,…
