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Whoever Makes A Garden

March 26, 2017 by Ogee

To my wayward gardeners (one excused for her good work with the dogs)… I understand your spring fever, but while you are away, the weeds grow wild and tall. The garden and I carry on without you – because a garden doesn’t make itself. The roses have been fed their poo tea and the narcissus tied back. The paths have been freshly laid. The weeds have been are being pulled and the beds mulched. And the new entry has been […]

Categories: Gardening, Nature, Nature Photography • Tags: California Poppy, Ceanothus, Cherry Blossom, Garden in Spring, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Memorial Garden, Lavatera, Lilac, Nature Photography, Rosebud

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

November 1, 2015 by Ogee

In the garden, opposites attract, like the purple aster against the yellow bush marigold – and things that are alike complement each other: two different varieties of Gaillardia: Dogs: not necessarily so. Dogs that don’t want to live with other dogs take a little longer to get home. Like our beloved, Barnaby here. But dogs that react negatively to other dogs, require dog-savvy humans committed to their training. Their journey can take longer still. Some dogs have had very troubled […]

Categories: Rescue • Tags: dog rescue, Dogs, Golden Retriever Garden, Photography

More to Love

August 2, 2015 by Ogee

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and Peggy’s got to take home a senior tub-o-love. Peggy – one of the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden volunteers – was out last weekend. She is an excellent gardener, and a long-time member of our rescue family. She also has a well-earned reputation for working miracles with the senior dogs that have either been loved or neglected into obesity. “All we ever get are the old and fat ones,” says her husband, Steve. (Excuse […]

Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: dog rescue, Golden Retriever Garden, Golden retrievers, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Obese Dogs, Pets

Happy 4th of July!

July 4, 2015 by Ogee

Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: 4th of July Dogs, Dog Photography, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Puppy 4th of July

Going Home Parade

May 24, 2015 by Ogee

It’s beginning to look a lot like summer, with the return of the Asiatic lilies, daylilies… Monarch butterflies, and snakes. There is just one thing missing: my dahlias! When I last saw them, they were healthy, six-inch tall plants shooting rapidly skyward. Upon my return this weekend, they were barely stubs. Maria says they fell prey to snails. I’m not so sure that bunnies weren’t involved. There certainly are enough of both in the garden. Do you think we can […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Asiatic Lily, Daylily, Going Home Rescue Pictures, Golden Retriever Garden, golden retriever rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Monarch Butterfly

Promises Kept

April 5, 2015 by Ogee

It wasn’t a lot … but it was something … and in our current state of drought, we are grateful for anything. Just after all the dogs were walked, dark skies turned to a quick downpour – with the promise of more on Tuesday. Every drop and every cool day extends our hope for the garden (which looks lush and full in spring) to survive another California summer. “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: California Drought, California Rain, dog rescue, gardening, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Nature Photography

Perfectly Imperfect

July 4, 2012 by Ogee

There has been a lot of discussion recently about sun dial which was donated to the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden. We set the dial in position – but it did not move correctly with the hours of the day. We read up on it a little and set it again. Still no luck. We assumed it was made incorrectly. Not true. We read some more and learned that it can tell time precisely – in its own way. It definitely […]

Categories: Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: dog rescue, gardening, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Imperfection, Perfection, Sun Dial, Sunflowers

A Summer Evening in the Garden

June 29, 2012 by Ogee

There is nothing I would rather do after work on a warm summer evening than avoid exercise and putter around in the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden. The sun baths everything in this warm glow which coats the imperfections so you can relax instead of focusing on the weeding and projects you know will have to be done. Out in this country garden, a light breeze picks up late each day off the cool Sacramento Valley rice fields. Quiet as it […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Country Gardening, Golden Retriever, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound, Homeward Bound Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Rice Fields, sacramento, Sacramento evening, Summer

NBA Draft Day Close-ups

June 29, 2012 by Ogee

It is NBA Draft Day, an official holiday in my house. In other words, I might as well be invisible. So I took the opportunity to make an evening trip to the Homeward Bound Memorial Garden to get up close with some of our blooming friends – beginning with Deb’s first Dahlia’s of the season… Susan and Jeff’s Miniature Dahlias… Maria’s Sunflowers, Vonnie and Randy’s Roses, Sue’s Marigolds, and a host of others: Next up…wide shots of the garden as […]

Categories: Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Black Eyed Susan, Coneflower, Country Gardening, Dahlia, Day Lily, Golden Retriever, Golden Retriever Garden, Homeward Bound, Homeward Bound Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Lupine, Marigolds, Memorial Garden, NBA Draft, Roses, sacramento, Sunflowers