by Alexandria Blaelock | 22nd September 2022 | Beauty, Friendship, Wisdom
Just recently, the notion of leaving a legacy keeps coming up again and again as I research and write blog posts and stories. Seeing the tree and the forest by veeterzy on Unsplash For example, during research for a recent story, I discovered a large oak tree near... 
by Alexandria Blaelock | 18th September 2022 | Beauty, Pleasure
The other day, I happened to notice the daffodils are out. It’s not as exciting as when I lived in the UK – one day nothing, the next masses of them, but then again, mine have only been in the ground for a few years; not long enough to naturalise. But the... 
by Alexandria Blaelock | 25th July 2022 | Beauty
We’ve seen climate change in the garden recently, because we took the first step toward our extension by cutting down some of the trees and shrubs, most of them weed species that had to be removed anyway. Cut tree on boggy ground, 2022. Photo by me! We’re... 
by Alexandria Blaelock | 27th August 2021 | Beauty, Pleasure
In a rare break of sunshine, we did a little yard work. A bit of pruning, and weeding, and lawn mowing. It’s amazing how much better the garden looks with a freshly mown lawn. And how much calmer you feel looking out over it. It must shake up the lawn dwelling... 
by Alexandria Blaelock | 17th June 2020 | Beauty
Chinese (Feng shui style?) Garden, 2017 by Leung Cho Pan via Canva With the change in the seasons and the whole social isolation thing, we’ve been working in the garden. Weeding, mulching, pruning. And having done a bunch of Feng Shui research for a fiction...