The lovely Rhoades family weasn’t in residence this weekend but we checked Ella’s progress on the mosaic she’s working on. This seems pretty ambitious to me, but under close inspection I think she’s having fun all the way:
Category: Cutler City
Beach Weekend
We went to the beach this weekend where it was cool and stormy…certainly felt like fall. I love the sun-bleached summer beach, but there’s something nice about the stormy gloomy fall–if you can have a coffee!! We drove along the edge checking various view points to reveal the following: Check the circling pelicans–the Bay is […]
Pergola Research II: The Sequel
To quickly review: We lost our beautiful swooping tree at the beach and the cottage looked too blank. We found a local prototype that looked like it might work at our house and Mike Perron built it. we cut the rhodie on the left to the ground and planted clematis. The structure is cedar and […]
Field Notes: a Nature Walk
Having a botanist/biologist for a friend has always provided lively and interesting conversations (bird flu, flesh-eating viruses, pandemics, poison mushrooms) but this year we’re going into the field. The other day Sharon and I hiked the nature trail in Cutler City. Sharon said we would look especially for lichens and mosses, which we did, but […]
Pergola Research
We arrived at the beach to discover the city had cut down the damaged tree, ravaged in the December storms. Our plain little cottage needs some visual interest so we wandered up and down the edge looking for pergolas. First a review of the cottage: Oh dear. So–pergolas: We’re thinking pergola #3 might be the […]
On The Way 