Month: April 2018

Lamb keftedes served with rice and spinach salad

Lamb Keftedes with Tzatziki

Perfect for a quick weekday dinner, but so flavorful that it’ll taste like you cooked all day!

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A brick wall stretches to the garden gate

Williamsburg The Long Way

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, April 2009. ? © 2018 auntjoannblog.com.…

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Honeysuckle "Hawkeye" bloom is pink, with bright and prominent yellow stamen.

April in the Garden, Six-on-Saturday 4-21-18

The daffodils waited to bloom, and still are being stung by repeated snowfall.  I share their “droopy-headed” resignation. 

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chia seed pudding bowl with berries and violets scattered on top

Grow Your Own Edible Flowers for Health and Beauty

Edible flowers are not just for decoration, and not made of pure sugar.  These are the real deal.

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A robin perches on a vine stem outside a rain covered window

Sharing Is for the Birds

Robins and many other suburban-dwelling birds repeatedly fly into windows because they interpret their reflections as other birds invading their territory. 

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baskets of ripe tomatoes fill a table at the farmers market

Prolific Tomato Plants

Beefsteak, Roma, Sweetie, I love them all in their own ways.  

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a daffodil with a ruffled yellow corona and white perianth

Daffodils Survive the Deer and Snow; Six on Saturday 4-14-18

There are two reasons deer don’t like daffodils.

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