Life is Good

Thank you to Magmoment for nominating me for the Life Is Good Award. As part of this award, I answer the following questions that Mag has posed, create my own list of six questions and nominate six people for the award. 1. What is your favorite song and why? “You are my Sunshine” is the [...]

Fertilize Friday / Flaunt Your Flowers

My greenhouse sister has this wonderful tradition of flaunting some of her fabulous blooms on Friday. I hope you will stop by her site and check out what she has growing in her Northern Garden. You saw my RED on the previous post so here is my white. My blue is captured with my fisheye [...]

Standing Out Above the Rest

The red hovering above in my Midwest Garden. I had a few others to share before heading out to the garden this morning but this image moved me in a way that I am going to leave you with that. -Bren

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday is always hard to participate in when my kitties are involved. This is a photo of Father & Son enjoying the deck after a few days of rain.

Interview From My Front Porch

From my Porch Recently after my photo of our front porch was featured on the cover of Lawn & Garden Retailer Magazine I was asked to be featured on the Front Porch and More website. I was interviewed by the lovely creator of this site who is a former Ohioan. Mary Morris’ site shares everything you could possibly [...]

Bench’s Greenhouse is a Country Favorite

FanFair at Bench's This was a special weekend for my husband and I. We celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary. One of the highlights of our weekend was a beautiful country drive in our little convertible to Bench’s Greenhouse in Elmore, Ohio. There is nothing more romantic then a sunny spring afternoon cruise down Rt. 105 to one of [...]

Inspiring Sister In Laws

This weekend my husband and I celebrate our 19th year of marriage. I can’t believe we are getting close to 2 decades of being a couple. As I look back on how fast the time has past by I came across a few photos from our first home. I couldn’t help but remember what inspired [...]

Top 10 Must-Haves in my Midwest Garden

coleus Yesterday I was recognized as one of the top10 garden Twitter users.  I love making new contacts on social media networking sites so this was a real treat to be ‘RT’ ( retweeted). To show my excitement for being noticed on this fun site I decided to do a Top 10 of my own. Sunflowers [...]