With the warm temperatures popping up off and on, the garden started bursting into bloom early. Here is a look at my garden in March.
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Spring Carrot Cake
This carrot cake has all the traditional carrot cake ingredients I remember growing up with in Texas – carrots, pineapple, and coconut which make the cake moist, fruity and deliciously unique.
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February Garden Pics 2018
With all the warm weather we had in February my garden is quickly waking up from its winter dormancy. Flowers blooming range from daffodils to freesias to pink tea trees and blue flowered rosemary bushes. Here are a few pics of my February garden.
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Drive Through Blossom Trail in Fresno County, California
Blossom Trail is an area in Fresno County’s farm land where thousands of stone fruit trees such as peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots are grown in addition to almond and walnut trees. I’ve wanted to check out Blossom Trail for over two years now. I finally made it out there this past President’s day weekend with the family!
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Primrose. A Delightful Winter Flower
Every winter while I am waiting for my garden to wake up from it’s dormancy I stop by the nursery thinking that they will have some colorful plants to brighten my garden blues. And every year the same plants catch my eye – cyclamen, pansies, ranunculus, and primrose. It’s the primrose that I gravitate towards as in comes in lovely shades of the rainbow.
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Warm Winter Wedding in Bangalore, India
For someone who loves flowers, these photos that my daughter Sri sent from a wedding she attended in India last week in January were the perfect antidote on a dreary winter rainy week.
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Curly Kale and Ricotta Salata on Crackers with Edible Blooms
The combination of kale and ricotta are so good together that I decided to try them in an appetizer.
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Foraged Flora: A Year of Gathering and Arranging Wild Plants and Flowers by Louesa Roebuck and Sarah Lonsdale
Love flowers? Love nature? Love vibrant colors? Love photography? Then you will love this book. Titled Foraged Flora: A Year of Gathering and Arranging Wild Plants and Flowers by is for those of us who can get lost in the pages of a beautifully photographed book on nature and flowers. Continue reading Foraged Flora: A Year of Gathering and Arranging Wild Plants and Flowers by Louesa Roebuck and Sarah Lonsdale
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, …
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – by poet Stanley Horowitz.
An art metaphor to describe the seasons, how fitting!! Autumn has finally arrived here in the Bay Area, which means for our gardens it’s time to plant spring-flowering seeds, bulbs, and plants. I’ve written a few articles about the best bulbs and seeds to plant in the fall for amazing out of this world color in the spring. Let me share a few of those along with some photos. Continue reading “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, …
Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies with Chrysanthemum Petals
Think Mexican hot chocolate with cayenne pepper and cinnamon but in a cookie form.
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