Tag Archives: Nature

As I mentioned in my last Veggie Files update, patience is not something I have a large supply of.  I got really tired of waiting for lettuce to show up in my lettuce pot, so I stuck a few seeds a bit more shallow in the pot with my cucumber, and whattya know!  A few days later, I have lettuce …

A while back I got a package in the mail from Xander’s step-mother which included seeds for growing cucumber, lettuce and beans.  Not just any old kind, but the urban kind for people like me without gardens, they can be grown on the balcony!  By gardening idiots like me! Last week I dug out some pots and got my hands …

Yesterday morning we woke up and it was foggy and grey. Not exactly what we hoped for on a Sunday morning but it would have to do.  I had a lot of housework that I was avoiding, so I asked my husband how he’d feel about going for a drive so I could take some photos.  He was up for …

On Sunday Xander and I went to the Biesbosch in Brabant, just south of here.  It’s quite lovely around there with lots of water and nature.  There are boats you can rent to see the area from a different perspective and lots of trails for biking and hiking.   We drove around the area for a few hours, stopping every so …