I Own Trees…

Or do they own me?

This blog will journal my adventures with my new home, a little house in the big woods of Juneau, Alaska. After seven years in a condo, where I could only count a few shrubs as my own, I am finally responsible for real live trees–a lot of them.

I love house blogs, but something tells me I’ll neither have the cool, calm serenity of those shelter bloggers, nor the cheerful go-to-it of the construction bloggers.  More likely it’ll be rants, frustration, mutterings and slight-out-of-focus photographs.

I counted, and this is my 14th home in 46 years.  Hopefully it will be the last one before they shuttle me off to the Pioneer Home, so I’d like to make it right for me.  I encourage my friends and family to feel free and share their ideas and input to my crazy schemes.

And what’s bear’s bread? A fungus that clings to old trees.  I thought it would be an appropriate title.

For Real This Time

Tags

exterior, garden, pretty alaska pics, seasons

What a difference two weeks makes:

Same scene, different look…

Two hundred plus bulbs planted, and they’re beginning to bloom.

Rain today, after nearly a week of sun and relatively warm temperatures.  The soft, drenching rain of my childhood that’s been replaced by pouring rains more often these days.

The early primroses are up too.

The pom-pom variety aren’t quite blooming at my place yet.

For now, they just look like something from Day of the Triffids

The garden of the couple I bought this variety from.  That’s what mine will look like soon…Er….

 

Random pretty Alaska picture: Auke Lake in the rain today.  There was a trumpeter swan swimming out there, but my camera’s not that fancy to catch him in the shot.

 

Auke Lake: 5.11.13