About Me

I started gardening seriously at the ripe age of 41 when we moved to this large property. It was a blank slate of old farm field with small patches of woodland. Over the past 10 years or so, I have planted many, many trees, including 3 crabapples, a crape myrtle, 6 River Birch, 10 ornamental cherry trees, 12 White Pines, 6 hollies, 6 viburnums, and one golden wheeping willow. There is also a small orchard of 8 semi-dwarf fruit trees my husband planted from whips.

I garden pretty much all organically, though I have been known to occasionally use Round-Up in some areas. The three acres around the house are kept reasonably tame, while the other 3 acres farther out I am letting revert to woodland with only some mowed paths. For this task I use a Gravely garden tractor--it's beltless and it cuts through anything, including lots of brambles.

I've enjoyed taking photographs from childhood, when I bought my first camera with money saved from relatives' birthday and Xmas presents. I got my first slr when I was just out of college, a Pentax K1000 and with that I learned basic concepts of manual photography. I recently bought a digital slr Konica Minolta 5D and also use a Panasonic Lumix DMC with 12x optical zoom.

All photographs on my site were taken by me unless stated otherwise and are copyrighted.

I have two grown children, one 25 and one a college junior. I also have one husband who works in downtown DC. As for my pets, I have two cats, a Maine Coon, and a tuxedo; and two parrots, a Timneh African Grey and a White-Capped Pionus.

Plus, lots of deer!