by Sandy Connolly | Apr 14, 2017 | Flowers
I’m visiting my mother over spring break, and you would think there would at least be a SIGN of spring SOMEWHERE – anywhere! But here’s what I’ve been getting: Dead grass in dead tree stump Hey! I'm dead! Yep... dead Dead Elm? Dead Stuff...
by Sandy Connolly | Sep 12, 2016 | Flowers, Grasses, Photography
My good friend Glenn Levinson came over the other day for something of an impromptu visit with our family (Uncle Glenn!), and I had just come back from a grass, flower, and other types of plants raid at Chittenden Park in Guilford. Now, I hadn’t seen Glenn in...
by Sandy Connolly | Aug 1, 2016 | Flowers, Photography
The moment I heard that my friends Aaron and Noah (ages seven and five) were running a flower business by selling arrangements in the park with flowers they grew in their own backyard, I was seized with a dire need to document the story. The cuteness factor was just...
by Sandy Connolly | Aug 24, 2015 | Flowers
It happens every August, and maybe it happens to you too: we’re being invaded by Lady’s Thumbs. They grow in all the places that can’t be reached by the lawn mower. Here’s what they look like as you come up our driveway: But if you pick them...
by Sandy Connolly | Jul 26, 2015 | Flowers
I love our bee balm; it brings the hummingbirds. Seems like an awful lot of trouble for a being to get his dinner… sticking his beak into each one of those flowers (or whatever those individual petal thingies are) while flying at the same...
by Sandy Connolly | Jul 24, 2015 | Connolly Family, Flowers
Rachel: What kind of flowers are those? Me: Here! Here’s the [wildflower idenfication] guide. Take it out there. Is it Wintercress? Golden Alexanders? Yellow Milkwort? Go look at it! Rachel: My life is hard. ********* Abigail: I’m feeling really...
