In each month of the year, on the first few days, we post wide views of what our gardens look like in that month. Town Mouse of Town Mouse and Country Mouse, started this series of posts, called meme, and any garden bloggers can take part. Go here to post a link to her blog.
Indian Summer. Those words sound wonderful when, I remember shivering into my coat when coming in and out of the house in other Januarys. Now, not only am I not shivering, but I am out in the garden watering and weeding,…even planting with the sun hot on my back.
An Indian Summer is a period of considerably warmer temperatures than normal, usually in the Fall. While mostly associated with an Autumn event, in colonial times the term may have referred to a December or January thaw when tracking Indians after a raid was more difficult without snow on the ground.
This month, or I should say, on the first day of the year, I’ll take you on a garden tour of the garden set just 20 miles south of Yosemite, on a mountainside that runs north and south next to the Sierra National Forest.
The next morning…
Here we are back at the start. Thanks for coming along. After so much good sunny weather, I bet we have snow by February First Views. Right now, we are thoroughly enjoying sitting,… soaking up the warmth like a cat in a sunbeam.
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