Sunday, January 11, 2015

Onward to the New Year

Well, I finally decided to update my blog. I can list all the excuses, but it boils down to this. My holiday season was ridiculously busy this year, and there's not a darn thing to see outside in my garden. December was just the drabbest month. It didn't really snow, the skies were rainy and foggy, and it was just generally dreary. Blah.


 But with the arrival of the new year came the arrival of real winter time. It's been snowing, and bitter cold, just like you'd expect from winter. Brrrrr! Sometimes I think that I'll never feel warm again.

I'm ready to finally settle into my winter cocoon. Honestly, I'm looking forward to things turning a little bit dull. You see, we just held our annual wine party last night, and I'm exhausted! Don't get me wrong, it was a blast, but now I can call my time my own. We normally hold it between Christmas and New Year's, but this year we moved it off the holiday just a bit and that turned out to be a good move. However, it means that I still haven't been able to wind down from the "holidays". I promise, today I did nothing! And it felt wonderful.
In trying to inspire myself to write about gardening, I scanned through last year's pictures for ideas. Instead, I got a little lost there in my photo files. Heavy sigh. Sometimes I can put it out my mind for awhile, but seeing all those flowers reminded me just exactly what I'm missing.

 I guess that just means that one of my first winter projects will be sorting through the seed catalogs. Oh darn.
I'm actually ahead of the game with next year's seeds. I already bought some of my favorites so that they wouldn't sell out before I got to them. After all, I couldn't do without my beloved Queen Red Lime zinnias. I wonder what other treasures I'll find.
There are a couple of other winter projects to keep me occupied, and they are actually related to gardening. That's how I keep my sanity till the garden starts blooming again. I need to gather vegetable recipes for the Master Gardener farmer's market, and I need to tweak my butterfly gardening presentation before I present it to the garden club next month. Of course there are plenty of other non-garden related craft projects too. Before I know it, the first iris reticulata will pop up, and the next garden season will begin again. I can make it.

4 comments:

  1. We can make it, Robin. We have freezing rain here, today, but I am enjoying the down time. And really enjoyed the photos you shared in this post! P. x

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  2. I am really loving all the beautiful flowers you posted this morning. Getting my color fix. LOL! I really like your wine bottle display amongst the flowers. So pretty Robin.

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  3. Hello Robin girl !
    We are in an extreme cold alert here right now ... -23 but the calculation is "feels like" -30 .. so it is COLD but clear.
    Thankfully it isn't going to last long.
    I really like you individual bottle stands ... I didn't quite go for the trees .. but the individual shot of colour like that is really pretty !
    Your garden always looks wonderful ... I think I need to post 2014 pictures too ... anything to get over the winter months right now ... they are stretching way ahead of me ... Spring is very far away !
    Joy

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  4. Hey, I missed you! You can blog about other stuff besides gardening! I would've loved to hear about your holidays and your wine party, though I did see some of your pics on FB. It's nice to finally do nothing for a change, isn't it? I actually kind of like January (except for the cold, lol) because it's such a low-key month. I've been in a decluttering and organizing mood, but at least I can do it at my own pace and there's no rush involved.

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