Greetings from Michigan

Dec 30, 2023

Hello Everyone- I’ve missed you!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday week and are looking forward to the new year.

Turns out it’s a bit hectic moving to another state. My hat is off to those of you who have moved with children or two full-time jobs!

All in all it’s been an exciting adventure. Here’s a bit of what I’ve been up to.

The botanical gardens, Rosie zonked, sketchbooking, my new garden plot

We were lucky to arrive in the fall. The colors here were magnificent (Ann Arbor = city of trees). But also anemones everywhere, and dahlias!

Autumn anemones, bonsai, magnificent colors, dahlias blooming

I signed up for a community garden right away. The site is at the lowest point in Ann Arbor, so it floods periodically, making the dirt so wonderful. Folks here make swales in their plots, so I took their advice and mapped out my little spot the same way. I put in allium bulbs, daffodils and garlic this fall.

I bought myself a nice easel before we moved. My first outing with it was at Lillie Park on my birthday. It’s a lovely park with a big pond in the center. The trees were glorious in their fall colors and the sky was full of clouds, changing from periwinkle to cerulean blue. If this is the gray everyone kept warning me about, I’ll take it! The sky here is very dramatic.