Raquel's Blog archive

Early morning.

Today I was watering my plants at 6:30am in the dark (this is when you realize WHY...

Blackberry-eating

Now that the weather has changed, just thought I would share this poem by Galway...

Last Saturday in September

Last Saturday-well, all last weekend, actually-I spent it happily dedicated to my...

Insects and other things.

I don't know what happened, maybe the hurricane stirred up eggs and larvae, because...

The plants sheltered in place.

And happily, they all survived the hurricane! We were told late Thursday that everything...

Poems

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign...

Pet evacuees

One of the more touching aspects of this whole hurricane ordeal (after the human...

After the storm

After the storm everything slowly returns to normal, but nothing is quite the same...things...

It's myrtle time! Crape myrtle, that is.

In the depth of summer, around late June and in July, the crape myrtles really take...

So what would you do with a farm?

Sometimes when i think of my dad's farm, I wonder what I would do with it if I could....

La finca / The farm

I always write about my mother and her garden, and that's because it is really she...

Flowering gerbera in pictures.

I thought it might be fun to record how a gerbera slowly flowers over the course...