Happy New Year to my faithful subscribers! May 2026 be one of your best gardening years ever! The focus of this post is to share my recent interview with Francis Van de Vogt who lives in Poland and is found on LinkedIn at Enlightened Leadership. In ...
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Enlightened Leadership interview w/Kathryn and more...

Enlightened Leadership interview w/Kathryn

Happy New Year to my faithful subscribers! May 2026 be one of your best gardening years ever! The focus of this post is to share my recent interview with Francis Van de Vogt who lives in Poland and is found on LinkedIn at Enlightened Leadership. In spite of one more round of some tech challenges I am here posting our recent interview, recorded...

     
 
 

Interview announcement for Kathryn

Dear Plant Whatever Brings You Joy readers,

This post announces that I have begun to do interviews on behalf of Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden once again. My first interview takes place tomorrow, November 20, at 9:00AM (PT) on LinkedIn with podcaster Francis Van de Logt in Poland! You will need to have an account on...

     
 
 

Create a Morning Glory Wall!

Greetings to subscribers of Plant Whatever Brings You Joy! It has been a full year since I placed this blog on hiatus, giving me time to adapt to my new environment in New Mexico, which offers a wide variety of plants heretofore unknown. Some of the plants I have knowledge of can adapt, however, or can be grown annually. The one that stands out...

     
 
 

Love Affair with a Grasshopper

What you are looking at, dear readers, is a photograph of an egg case full of fossilized grasshopper eggs that a mama grasshopper laid in the Earth 29 million years ago! They were found in Oregon by someone who does this kind of research.

I have been enchanted by grasshoppers since I was a young child. How could one not be? The jumping alone...

     
 
 

High Desert Skies!


Desert willow in winter, and moon…

One of the greatest joys and unexpected pleasures of high desert living has been the stunning beauty offered by desert skies, which are awe inspiring and breathtaking! I wanted to share with you this morning some of the imagery I have captured, largely from the back patio of my home. What a treasure to...