New Passport: It All Takes Time and Money!
One of the (many!) things I need to do during 2026 is renew my Danish passport... as a Danish citizen who is a Permanent Resident in the USA. This…

Danish national living in the US Pacific Northwest; Writer, Artist, HSP, Husband, Entrepreneur, Cat Lover
One of the (many!) things I need to do during 2026 is renew my Danish passport... as a Danish citizen who is a Permanent Resident in the USA. This…
It has been very rainy and windy for a couple of days, and it is quite clear that the gardening season is coming to an end! *Last of the fall…
It has been a long time since I have had a chance to post a garden update. I have many good intentions to post more regularly, but much of my time that I would normally give to…
After we closed our gallery downtown six years ago, we brought home several boxes of decorative items that were sitting around the shop, mostly being used as decorative props in…
If there's one thing that experience has taught us about gardening and urban homesteading, it is that you never know what to expect! Whereas we didn't have a particularly cold…
Since we just made it to the Summer Solstice, I realized that we are way overdue for a garden update from the Laughing Dragon garden. *A bumblebee…
Yesterday — March 20th — was the Spring Equinox, marking the formal arrival of Spring, here in the northern hemisphere. This morning, the sun shone weakly from behind some…
Gardening is a very meditative pastime, at least for me. I'm not talking about "irritating yardwork" like mowing the lawn when it's hot, or trimming thorny hedges. I'm talking…
In a few days we will arrive at the Summer Solstice. Around where I grew up we generally referred to it as "Midsummer" even though it isn't actually the middle of the summer…