Admiring Mama’s tree
While visiting Mama at her new apartment today, we sat on her lovely balcony and enjoyed the sunlight on this beautiful, enormous tree. It’s not really “her” tree, but it’s […]
Flowering fruit trees
Our plum, peach, and pluot trees are all flowering and they’re so beautiful! Today’s #OneGoodThing with Mama is a trio of flowering fruit trees! What was your #OneGoodThing today? Please […]
Fall walk in a lovely Sacramento neighborhood
Paisley and I went for a little walk around the neighborhood this afternoon—not our neighborhood, but the one where we’re staying in Sacramento. The streets are lined with trees dropping […]
First homegrown pluots & 2nd day of Art Challenge
It’s a good thing we started this 30-day Art Challenge for September because it’s been a rough month already. Thankfully, focusing on creativity has provided us with joyful moments for […]
Pluot tree’s first crop ever
The Emerald Beaut pluot tree we planted in our backyard 1.5 years ago is now getting its first fruit ever! This glorious variety of pluot won’t be ripe until late […]
Emerald Beaut’s first buds
The Emerald Beaut tree we planted last year has just started flowering and it is absolutely lovely! This is our favorite variety of pluot and we are praying we’ll receive […]
Pluot tree surprises with buds
We just planted our Emerald Beaut Pluot tree about a month ago; it was tiny and looked more like sticks than a tree. Last week, we wrapped the tree gently in […]
Tiny plum buds are back
Mama and I meandered through our back yard oasis together this morning, examining our garden’s progress before tomorrow’s predicted frost. Besides watering our newly planted fruit trees and seeing what […]
Planting our awesome new tree
Today something truly amazing happened. We planted a new tree in our backyard! That may not sound terribly exciting, but it’s not just any tree. We planted an EMERALD BEAUT […]
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