The weather has blown in a cold snowy 2008. I didn't leave the house on New Year's Day except to shovel the steps and part of the driveway in anticipation of trying to get out of the driveway today!
Three New Year's gardening resolutions:
1) to
plan out my garden while it's covered in snow. What do I want to move? Separate? Plant? Mulch? Eliminate? And what order will I do it in? I know I want to use more purple, yellow and red in the side garden next to turn around
2) to
buy some
pruners,
sitting stool with wheels, and new little fence to try to keep the dogs out in March/April.
3) to
add more compost to each of the gardens, but especially the one next to the turn around. The ground has so much clay in there and it's my newest garden.
So while I'm waiting for the snow to melt, I may as well hang out in the house, read my new gardening book from Christmas and dream about being out in the garden.
Or I can win the blogger's contest to get Orville Redinbacker Popcorn & a Netflicks movie every week during 2008! It's a contest only open to bloggers. The rules are simple: you just have to mention the contest in a post by Jan 11 (this one qualifies!) and then link back to Roni at
http://weightwatchen.com and to Orville
http://orville.com. The winner gets picked January 11th, so I don't have to wait too long!
Maybe I'll rent "the secret garden"! Whoot!
Last night we heard a weird sound & when I looked outside one of our trees had fallen across the road. 
Luckily it didn't hit any cars when it dropped. My husband and a driver cleared the tree off the road quickly so traffic could resume. I only cleared off a couple of broken branches - they were working quickly!! 
Mother Nature laid down a sheet of ice yesterday. Even the dogs were slipping on the deck.
This last photo is from the Hudson green outside my office. I love how just a touch of sunlight was peaking thru the clouds to light the gazebo. And don't you just love the red tree behind the gazebo?!
A hidden, winding path tucked in between two block walls. The morning sun. Who would think that this garden oasis would be found at what some would consider "a workout gym"... 
I don't know what these little red burrs are or what kind of plant this is, but it is glorious this time of year.
Wnet to the Pittsburgh Botanical Garden during the Chihuly exhibit of Gardens & Glass. It was awesome and fun!
I especially liked how the glass seemed to grow out of the gardens. All the colors and forms really were beautiful. It feeds the soul.
How about this one?! It's from the Green in Hudson the day of the homecoming game. It's tradition for the seniors to toilet paper the green, but of course they get better at it every year. The seniors clean it up afterwards, but some of the paper was so high in the trees it couldn't come down... This video is a must see. 
