Before I get into our trip to the market, let me warn my faithful few readers that I am having a terrible time publishing to iweb. Much woe is me, as I love the interface which enables me to so easily add photos and links despite my state of html ignorance. There is a work-around, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Astoria’
flashback: 16 September 2007 — Astoria Sunday Market
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, tagged Astoria, Astoria Sunday Market, bulbs, flowers on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
flashback: 14 July 2007 — Astoria Garden Tour, Adolphson-Drafall garden
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, private gardens, tagged Adolphson-Drafall Garden, Astoria, Astoria garden tour, gardening, hardscaping, Japanese Maples, Oregon, plants on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
maples, rooms, wonderment Onward we go with the Astoria garden tour, a benefit for the Lower Columbia Preservation Society. Five years ago, two gardens were on the tour which I have remembered ever since with fond admiration. One my friend Carol and I tried to peek at this past May but were thwarted by the [...]
flashback: 14 July 2007 — Astoria Garden Tour, part one
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Astoria, Astoria garden tour, Oregon on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 14 July: Patti Jacobsen, organizer of the Long Beach Peninsula garden tour and Sonja May, local artist, and I went to the Astoria garden tour in Patti’s blue bug. The Astoria tour benefits the Lower Columbia Preservation Society. Our first stop was to visit Patti’s family members staying at the Elliot Hotel awaiting a [...]
flashback: 3 March 2007: a movie, a garden, books
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, public gardens, tagged Astoria, Blue Scorcher Café, books, gardenings, reading on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Occasionally there is a film which I so much want to see that I will kick over the traces to go see it in Astoria even on a non-rainy gardening-worthy day. So it was with Pan’s Labyrinth, which lived up to our expectations and more. I think it is rare for a foreign language film [...]
across the river in a storm
Posted in journal, nurseries, plants, tagged Astoria, Basket Case, Brim's, driving phobia, Long Beach Peninsula, weather on May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After three days of madly planting Cosmos, including Cosmos ‘Sonata’ in all the Long Beach main street planters, we learned a major storm was about to hit the coast. Even if I had known of the wonderfully informative blog by weather expert Professor Mass, I wouldn’t have seen the storm warning in time to abort [...]
