Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 5/23/12

My hens average nearly a dozen eggs per week—and I'm very grateful, too!

Fresh eggs from my backyard hens in a glass quart measuring cup
LaGrange, Georgia—21 Feb 2010

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 5/16/12

They once belonged to my great-grandmother, Mae Barrett Williams

I've always adored these antique cut-glass buttons from my mother's vast sewing stash. My great-grandmother gave them to Mom when I was a toddler, adding that she'd never used the buttons on any dress she'd ever made. "The edges of the buttonholes are sharp, and wear out the thread," Maw-Mae said.

They probably date from the late 1890s through the 1920s. Mom's kept them for nearly 40 years, preferring not to use them despite major advances in sewing thread technology. We've seen many gorgeous buttons in fabric stores, but none quite like these.

Antique cut-glass buttons from my mother's collection
Heard County, Georgia—11 July 2010

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 5/9/12

Once ripe, they made the best homemade peach ice cream ever.

Tiny green "baby peaches" on the ancient peach tree in my mother's yard
Heard County, Georgia—25 April 2010

Previously featured in "The Little Peach Tree That Could"

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 5/2/12

I reuse commercial egg cartons to store my own chickens' eggs.

My little brown hens lay brown eggs. And pink eggs. And suntan eggs. And café-au-lait eggs.
LaGrange, Georgia—4 August 2011

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 4/25/12

The blemished ones made excellent plum jelly.

An early summer harvest from the plum trees surrounding my mother's house, with some fruits looking a little better than others.
Heard County, Georgia—7 June 2010

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 4/18/12

He's gorgeous, and he knows it.

Leroy the rooster is loud and proud in my backyard chicken run.
LaGrange, Georgia—20 June 2010

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 4/11/12

Like miniature cabbage roses, no?

Deep pink blossoms on my mother's crabapple tree
Heard County, Georgia—11 April 2010

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 4/4/12

Every bloom is multi-colored, much like its biblical namesake

Joseph's Coat climbing rose in my yard
LaGrange, Georgia—April 2010

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 3/28/12

Amazing mid-spring color

Flame-orange native azalea
Warner Robins, Georgia—April 2010

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 3/21/12

How many pops would a maypop pop...

Maypop (also called passionflower) in bloom on wire fence
Heard County, Georgia—Early September 2011

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 3/14/12

Last year's drought was the worst in many years.

Dried-up pool in the waterfalls at the defunct Wehadkee Yarn Mills
Rock Mills, Alabama—August 2011
Courtesy of Gina Adamson-Taylor

Nearly Wordless Wednesday: 3/7/12

Peonies may be old-fashioned, but they never go out of style.

This one's about 6" wide.

Peony blossom in my back yard (LaGrange, Georgia)
April 2011