FLORAFAUNAANDFAMILY.BLOGSPOT.COM

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: Old Garden Roses and Dad

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/2015/07/old-garden-roses-and-dad.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Saturday, July 18, 2015. Old Garden Roses and Dad. Probably the closest I’ve ever felt to my dad was in the late ‘90s when he became interested in old garden roses. I was living in Atlanta at the time, trying to get my first yard going, and suddenly Dad was offering me these wonderful roses he’d rooted himself. Some had delightful fragrances. Others had bunchy, fluffy flowers like Persian kitten faces. All of them were charming. Part of our ritual was to enthuse about the roses...

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: The Imperial Piedmont Azalea

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-imperial-piedmont-azalea.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Sunday, April 19, 2015. The Imperial Piedmont Azalea. When I was growing up, my parents had a piedmont azalea that was queen of the side yard. From my earliest memory, it was sprawling and spready—utterly enormous. A grand thing. In spring it would be dressed in pale and shining raiment and surrounded by fawning courtiers (bees and butterflies). Our azalea seemed like a precious relic of the past—that’s how my parents treated it. Like a dinosaur bone. I neve...So I was really e...

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: Day Trips & Cool Places

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/p/fun-places-around-big-bend.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Day Trips and Cool Places. Birdsong Nature Center (Thomasville, Georgia). Dudley Farm (Newberry, Florida). Eden Gardens State Park (Santa Rosa Beach, Florida). Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village (Tifton, Georgia). Goodwood Plantation (Tallahassee, Florida). Grandma's House (Green Bay, Wisconsin). Lafayette Park (Tallahassee, Florida). Landmark Park (Dothan, Alabama). Luna Plantation (Tallahassee, Florida). Maclay Gardens (Tallahassee, Florida). May Me and Mom.

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: Maintenance

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/2015/05/maintenance.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Recently we had to have all our porch and step railings replaced because they'd rotted. It took months to get them rebuilt and painted. Now that all the work's done, I wanted to show you some “after” pictures and tell you a little about how I became interested in historic preservation. I didn’t grow up in an old house; I grew up in a new house in a new suburban neighborhood in Tallahassee. Yet my love of old houses began when I was very young. See, my fa...

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: About Me

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/p/about.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Hi, I’m Leslie, and this is my blog about living in an old house in the country in North Florida. I write here about decorating, gardening, and cooking vegan style. I think of my blog as a sort of virtual bed and breakfast. My aim is to offer you a little vacation from the hectic modern world. I hope you enjoy. Thanks so much for visiting. October 15, 2012 at 10:00 PM. Loved the cemetery post. October 16, 2012 at 8:37 AM. Thats so great to hear! December 30, 2012 at 2:21 AM.

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: Plant Profiles

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/p/plant-profiles.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Garden on Fourth Street. May Me and Mom. Unless otherwise noted, all photos and text by Leslie Kimel. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: Ferns: A Love Story

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/2015/07/ferns-love-story.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Friday, July 3, 2015. Ferns: A Love Story. I love ferns. I’ve always been drawn to them by their softness and quiet beauty. As children, my sister Kris and I spent many hours in the scrap of woods behind our house, gathering fern fronds. They were an essential part of our games. They made lovely fans for our dolls, and glorious plumes for their hats. My first house, in Atlanta, with its rows of autumn ferns. Here in Quincy: Sad cat statue and chain ferns. July 3, 2015 at 5:33 AM.

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: House & Garden

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/p/garden-projects.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Another Flowery, Cat-y Weekend. Another Saturday in the Yard. Around the House in Late Summer. Clean as a Whistle. A Front Porch Freshen-up and More. The Humble, Helpful Log. In the Depths of August. In the Slow Lane. The Landing and Other Stuff. New Sod and More. Painting the Back Bedroom. Pecans, a Pummelo, and More. Precious, Fleeting Fall. Rangpur Limes, Sweet Potatoes, and More. A Roble Orange and Other Good Stuff. Sprucing up the Vegetable Garden. A Very Productive Weekend.

sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com

Spruce Pine Cottage: Vegan Lemon Coolers, Version 2

http://sprucepinecottage.blogspot.com/2015/06/vegan-lemon-coolers-version-2.html

Day Trips and Cool Places. Friday, June 26, 2015. Vegan Lemon Coolers, Version 2. Today I'm taking a vacation day from work, so I celebrated last night by making a new version of the vegan lemon coolers I cooked up a few weeks ago. These new coolers are a bit chubbier (I added more flour) and more sugary (I rolled them in powdered sugar twice- right before baking and right after). They're pretty good. Rob, predictably, rolled his eyes. "Are you sure it's a pony and not a miniature horse? May Me and Mom.