The Inconsequential Blogger

I recently read this book . It was fascinating (even if felt a bit preachy at times) and as a result of reading it I've begun to look at...

Last night I added apple jelly to the list of jellies that I've made recently. So far, between my daughter, her boyfriend, and I, we...

I still live a life of begging time on my children's computers whenever I need the use of one. My computer - which broke, um, I don'...

Gardening Gone Wild's August photo contest theme is "Down on Your Knees," encouraging gardeners to view the world from a diff...

Yesterday my daughter and I went out in search of a crabapple tree we had spotted on the wild side of a farmer's fallow field last fall...

Yesterday I made a batch of elderberry jelly. Actually I, my daughter, and her boyfriend made the jelly. I harvested the berries from a cou...

Last night my husband, dog, and I drove to a hike a bike trail for a walk after dinner. I took along a small back pack with plastic bags in ...

I had such plans for gardening this year. I was going to grow mostly veggies in the plot at the back of the yard, and prepared a new plot in...

We went for a walk along one of the trails in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park today. It was a bridle trail, but we only met a few people o...

Over at literary agent Nathan Bransford's blog, there's a funny guest post - a rejection letter written to J.R.R. Tolkien for his ...

Yesterday, hubby, dog, and I strolled down to the farmer's market. We had a very pleasant walk, the weather was beautiful. We even bumpe...

I made up a batch of salve with some plantain infused oil that I made up a couple of weeks ago. In an earlier post I mentioned how fresh pl...

That describes my yard. If I turn my back on it, it begins to go wild. I've been battling weeds, spraying poison ivy, trimming wayward h...

I've been busy gathering herbs. I found an elderberry bush from which I've gathered some blossoms. The bush grows near the old farmh...

Here is a sculpture, found in the Louvre, depicting the main characters in one of my favorite mythological tales, that of Cupid and Psyche: ...

Here are some fireworks for you: Bang! Ahhh! Ooohh! Pop! Wow! Ahhh! Boom! Pop! Swii!shhh Bang! Ooooh! Ahhh! Wow! Ohhh! Bang! And the final...

We are having people over tomorrow for a fireworks party. Our nice little town has a spiffy 4th of July display, usually just before, or jus...

Apparently many churchyards in England have yew trees growing in them. Some of the trees are much older than the churches, and some have obv...