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Live in Each Season

September 29, 2019 by Ogee

“Live in each season as it passes.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Having lived through the wet of winter, the erratic fits of spring, and the scorching heat of summer, it is time to rejoice in the mosaic of fall. I love the chaos of the fall garden. All the little starts and shoots have grown tall and wild. Their well-defined contours are now a tangle of color and cascading form. They lay all over each other like summer camp friends […]

Categories: Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature, Nature Photography • Tags: Asters, Bluebeard, Fall Garden, Garden Photography, In Its Season Henry David Thoreau, Sunflowers

Yellow: The Color of Summer

July 22, 2018 by Ogee

Nothing says summer like the color yellow. The spring garden is full of pink, lilac, blue and white. In the autumn, I want depth: oranges, reds, deep purples, golds. But yellow is for summer. This shaggy rudbeckia grandiflora thrives and returns each year where others fail. It is beautiful in a chaotic, messy way – as if it couldn’t be bothered to fully dress itself or comb its hair in the morning. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” ~ […]

Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Photography • Tags: Color Yellow, Garden Photography, Summer, Summer Garden

To My Wayward Gardeners

May 8, 2018 by Ogee

The roses and I thank you for your pruning assistance last winter… they are repaying the effort in their magnificence. Please feel free to stop by to help deadhead them soon. Miss you! 🙂

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden, Nature Photography • Tags: Garden Photography, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Rose Garden, Roses First Bloom

Return to the Garden

October 1, 2017 by Ogee

“Where will you begin?” she asked. “At the beginning, I guess.” This sign was posted over our shed door. The weeds are indeed laughing. Two hours after the last puppy of Irish’s litter was adopted, in rolled the van with six more! I can’t show them to you due to a promise we made to the kind human who brought them to us. She saw that they were in need and intervened. We won’t give her up as she may […]

Categories: Gardening, Nature Photography, Photography • Tags: Bulbine, Dahlias, Fall Garden, Garden Photography, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Weeds Laughing

Wordless Wednesday: Swirling

August 9, 2017 by Ogee

Categories: Nature, Nature Photography • Tags: Clematis Seed Head, Flower Photography, Garden Photography

Wordless Wednesday: Moonscape to a Bee

August 2, 2017 by Ogee

Categories: Nature, Nature Photography • Tags: Bee on Sunflower, Garden Photography, Giant Sunflower, Nature Photography

Wordless Wednesday: Butterfly in Progress

July 26, 2017 by Ogee

Categories: Nature Photography • Tags: Caterpillar, Garden Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography

Summer Upon Us

May 21, 2017 by Ogee

Everybody in the pool! The dog days of summer are upon us. We’re getting a taste this weekend of what promises to be a long hot summer. In the morning, everyone is busy trying to get in their work, play – and tussles before the heat calls for a long, lazy nap. The good news: as the thermometer brushes 100-degrees, the searing sun kills the black spot fungus spores that have invaded our roses. Never before have we been faced […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Nature Photography • Tags: Dog Days of Summer, Dragonfly, Garden Photography, Golden Retrievers at Play, Hummingbirds Fighting, Love in a Mist, Nature Photography, Summer Garden

When All Is New Again

April 23, 2017 by Ogee

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” ~William Shakespeare The garden in April is both young and old. New friends appear… Old friends are reborn. The season was never over. It was just waiting for us to find it again. From cold ground covered in earth and leaves, springs forth our long-lost friends looking new and refreshed; ready to write another season – another chapter in our garden’s journey. “Age is opportunity no less, Than youth itself, though […]

Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Bearded Iris, dog rescue, Garden Photography, Gardens Golden Retrievers, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Spring Garden