Leaves

I am obsessed this week with the amazing leaves in our neighbourhood… can’t get enough of tromping through them when we go out for a walk, totally fascinated with the never-ending clean-up job in people’s yards, utterly intrigued by the big trucks and sucky-blowy machinery that the council uses to collect them from the big […]

Why We Need to Stop Adding Plastic to our Environment…

I just found a link to this heart-stopping series of images (one preview here) from The Catskill Kiwi and had to say that I was thankful to live somewhere where we do make some effort towards recycling… BUT that it is plainly not enough if we clutter up these amazing baby birds in such a […]

Autumnal Weekends

This past month was an explosion of glorious colour in our neighbourhood and across St Louis. As I sit and reflect on the busy weekends we had over the past few weeks, I am thankful for the way that trees are such a dramatic part of the landscape here in the Lou. We have ventured […]

Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterflies

At the beginning of September I noticed that my poor sad organic parsley that had fried in the hot St Louis summer was beginning to come away in the lovely early autumnal coolness and I was thinking that maybe we would get some eating out of the plants before winter set in. A couple of […]

…and Hand Picked

In our continued programme of finding lovely outdoor things to do on the weekends while the sun still shines, we set out early yesterday morning to pick the last of the summer blackberries and some Encore Peaches that have just come onstream at Wind Ridge Farm near Wentzville, about 45min drive away. It was the […]

Dealing with the Heat

We have been extraordinarily lucky so far this summer. St Louis is notorious for the sticky high humidity of its long hot summers and last year I toughed out the morning sickness in the air con of our apartment and harboured nostalgia for the calm sunny days of my Nelson adolescence. Thus far, it has […]

Of Water, the Web and Wimbledon…

This has been a week of wonderful outings and much much cooler weather, so better for all of us to bear. Having had a very harrassed afternoon at the university pool last Friday, where Kazuo did manage to have his first swim, but also seemed ready to expire from the heat… I was keen to […]

Weekend of Wonderfulness

So this past weekend we went on a holiday to the Ozarks with some of our lovely St Louis friends. We stayed at a Camphill Community home in the countryside – an oasis of calm with baby chicks, hens that roost in trees, lots of perfectly mown pathways through the fields and a spacious and […]

Bird Day

So, it is OK not to be working on a weekend. And with a firm date (Jan 16) now for the arrival of our new family member, we decided to make the most of this weekend and do things we might not get to do for some weeks. And one of those things was to […]