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
by Ogee
A few brave roses somehow survived frost, hail, and cold and were still attempting to put on a show on a foggy Friday. Such is gardening in Northern California. But the arrival of crocuses and narcissus signal – it’s time for the roses to go. Our gardeners are like ninjas; rarely seen – but they leave a trail of weeded and dead-headed beds behind as evidence of their stealth powers. Once a year, I am able to wrangle them together […]
Categories: Gardening • Tags: gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Puppies, Rose Pruning
by Ogee
“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” ~ Dr. Seuss The Calendar says “December.” I knew it was coming; even wished it so. But it arrived so quickly. The valley fog has set in. We had our first real rain. The leaves have nearly finished falling; the beds are all raised; the bulbs […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Nature Photography • Tags: December Garden, dog rescue, Dr. Seuss Quote, Entry Garden Bed Design, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Patience
by Ogee
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson For the community I have found, for the generosity that makes our work […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue • Tags: Garden Golden Retrievers, Gratitude, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Photography, Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, Thanksgiving
by Ogee
“I’m not ready for winter” is the refrain I hear as the fog sets in and the volunteers don their winter wools. But I am. Or nearly so. The garden is putting on its final show – a glorious crown to a long, hot summer. As if it saved up all its energy for a final encore, displaying its growing maturity in tall drifts of purple, orange, pink and gold. By the end of the month, the raising of the […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Nature Photography, Photography • Tags: Autumn quotes, dog rescue, Dogs, Fall Garden, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento
by Ogee
I love the velvety purple stalks of Mexican sage. It heralds fall; its amethyst hues offset by the season’s golden leaves. A perennial in most gardens – but not in our Homeward Bound Memorial Garden. It is too wet in winter, and too hot in summer. The clay soil and baking sun are too much for this tough, but not quite tough enough, sage. The first three seasons, I moved it to different spots in the garden hoping I would […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Rescue • Tags: Dog Loss, dog rescue, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, In Its Season Henry David Thoreau
by Ogee
For the first time in months, I have a weekend without a work project – and without a puppy. Little Journey has found her forever home. Now named Charli, she greeted her new Mom with a smother of kisses and flat out stole her heart. But she picked the right heart, because this Mom is an experienced dog person and a good leader with kind instincts. Charli has grown kids to play with, a new Dad who is making her […]
Categories: Dog Rescue, Gardening, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, Nature Photography • Tags: Dahlias, Fall Asters, Fall Garden, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento
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
by Ogee
The Delta Breeze finally blew in off the Bay, bringing an end to the stifling heat and still air while providing welcome relief to the parched garden. The days are still warm, but the cool nights provide a long-awaited respite after the months long scorching summer sun. The ground holds its drink better; the wind breathes life back into exhausted plants. Fall is my favorite season. Here, it is a second spring extending our flowering season from September through Thanksgiving. […]
Categories: Gardening, Nature Photography, Photography • Tags: Asters, blue sage, Dahlia, Delta Breeze Sacramento, Fall aseason, Fall Garden, Flowering Onion, Frog in Rose Petal, Homeward Bound Memorial Garden Sacramento, Russian Sage
