August 31, 2021, Tuesday – Like Blasts of Summer Sunshine, Lantana . As usual, I have started my day today by making a stroll through my garden. An early morning blast of sun has fallen on a corner of one
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Jacki Kellum
Like Blasts of Summer Sunshine, Lantana … August 31, 2021 – Jacki Kellum Garden Journal
Beatrix Potter’s Garden at Her Hill Top Farm in Cumbria, England
Hill Top Farm, Which Was Once Owned by Beatrix Potter Image Credit: Visit Lake District Cumbria Hill Top Garden – Image Credit of the National Trust A special place “Hill Top was never a traditional home for Beatrix. It was
Read moreWatch the Painted Parade! – August 30, 2001 – Jacki Kellum Garden Journal
August 30, 2001, Monday – Watch the Painted Parade! It rained last night, and although the sun has begun to peek from behind the clouds now, there is still a heavy wetness about my entire garden today. Several of my
Read moreHow to Create A Garden Journal – Step 1 – Create A Garden Notebook
If you are wondering how to create a garden journal, the most obvious answer is: Write. As usual, however, obvious answers are hardly ever true answers. Many times, they are insults thrust toward what a true answer might be. As
Read moreThe Eyes Have It! Learn to See – Don’t Just Look!
I often write about the importance of an artist’s or a writer’s or a thinker’s truly “seeing,” as opposed to merely looking. There Is A Huge Difference Between Looking and Seeing – Even Flies Can Look I have lived a while now, and
Read moreChurch In My Garden – August 29, 2021 – Jacki Kellum Garden Journal
August 29 Sunday – Church In My Garden Today The grasses are arching above the places where the perennials had bloomed only weeks ago. The Purple Fountain grass is darker than most of my garden now, which is still a
Read moreMindfulness – I Garden & I Journal about My Garden to Be More Mindful — To Live in the Moment
The spring and early summer have been the months during which I created my garden in the Ozark mountains. I garden for many reasons, but one of those reasons is to celebrate life rather than merely existing in that life.
Read moreDorothy Wordsworth – Word Painter – Excerpts from Her Grasmere Journal
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH’S JOURNAL WRITTEN AT GRASMERE (14th May to 21st December 1800) May 14th, 1800.—The lake looked to me, I knew not why, dull and melancholy, and the weltering on the shores seemed a heavy sound. I walked as long
Read moreDorothy Wordsworth’s Life and Garden at Dove Cottage During the 1800s
Dorothy Wordsworth – Word Painter – Climbing England’s Scafell Pike during the Early 1800s
While she was alive, Dorothy Wordsworth was the uncelebrated sister of the famous Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Now, a couple of centuries later, Dorothy Wordsworth is lauded as one of the greatest nature diarists of all time. Dorothy was born
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