We love all things coniferus on Serendipity Farm…we have our own cypress trees in the making. At the moment they are NOT 100 years old and are all just over knee high…one day Serendipity Farm will be redolent with the scent of heat and conifers…an amazing thing on a hot day :). All hail the mighty Cypress!
Someday those tiny little trees will be the picture of majestic, I just know it! Due to your penchant for conifers, you’ll be excited to know that next month I’ll be featuring a Nature Walk post about a wonderful place in south Florida called Corkscrew Swamp and it was filled with lovely Cypress trees!
The only thing that we have seen about Cypresses (one of our absolute favourites) was on one of Steve’s redneck TV shows called Swamp People where they were talking about how the logs can lay in water for centuries and still be useable (no rotting). I just love them. I have a beautiful Taxodium distichum ‘Cascade Falls” that my girls gave me a couple of years ago for Christmas that we planted out this year on Serendipity Farm that is absolutely gorgeous. We also have a couple of regular Taxodiums that we will need to find a “moist” place for as they LOVE it wet. 🙂
Cypress trees are on of my favorites too! I just love tromping through the swamp and seeing these majestic trees. It is because they don’t rot, that they were prized for lumber and many of the cypress forests in south Florida were logged almost completely…it was very sad. Most of them are protected now. 🙂
I would love to tromp through a cypress swamp and see that magnificence 🙂 The son and heir has decided that his American sweetie Kelsey is just the ticket and I think it might go much further now so who knows? Maybe one day we might have to hop a plane and head on over to the US. I might just head on down to Florida (not that far from Texas as the crow flies…) and have a look-see for myself 🙂
Ahh that’s amazing.. 🙂 it breaks my heart when they chop trees like that. Mostly for industrial reasons here in the city. Grr. I visited a small town in Holland a couple of weeks ago, where the entire village was filled with giant old trees!! Hanging silently over the water.. standing next to the road, everything. What made everything even better, it was foggy!
Ohhh, I’d LOVE to go to Holland some day! I’m studying horticulture and Holland is the birthplace of so many great gardening and greenhouse innovations. Plus, tulips are my favorite flower and I’d love to see them in bloom there! That picture came from an area that was saved from the devastating logging that happened a couple of decades ago. I’m actually writing a Nature Walk post about it next month. 🙂
Ah yeah that’s true! As soon as you cross the border, at least where I used to live, you enter the countryside.. and if you don’t have land, you create some to grow veggies in your own backyard lol!
As a matter of fact, the countryside is so intertwined with the country itself, that it keeps going until right at the edge of the city. And then in the city there’s trees, and tons of interior design stores to make the inside of your appartment feel happy too. With sheets with cows on it for example lol!
I loved it there, and I think you would too. 😀
What a great idea. I keep hearing people say, “You should start a grateful journal.” But it would be much more fun on line, especially with pictures. And help me keep things in perspective when I get overwhelmed. I might have to just implement that in my blog, or maybe I’ll start a new one….brilliant idea, Katie. (Which is my all-time favorite name btw.) And thanks for the shout-out on Twitter. 🙂
I was inspired by a 30 Day Gratitude Challenge that I found on a fellow bloggers site. This is the link: http://cauldronsandcupcakes.com/2012/07/18/day-1-gratitude-challenge/ It is a great excersice, she gives you a topic to think about each day and it helps get you into the habit of finding those little things that you’re grateful for. After the challenge ended, I just kept writing in my gratitude journal each evening and thought it might be fun to put some pictures with a few of the entries. I write five things every night and some of them are just for me but some of them I like to share too! I’m going to start sharing one each week on the blog and I’ll be inviting everyone else to share too, so get your links ready! 🙂
Check out more of my Gratitude Picture Journal.
I love it!
Thanks, Emily!
beautiful. baked apples look awesome!
They were SO delicious and just perfect for the slightly chilly weather that blew in!
We love all things coniferus on Serendipity Farm…we have our own cypress trees in the making. At the moment they are NOT 100 years old and are all just over knee high…one day Serendipity Farm will be redolent with the scent of heat and conifers…an amazing thing on a hot day :). All hail the mighty Cypress!
Someday those tiny little trees will be the picture of majestic, I just know it! Due to your penchant for conifers, you’ll be excited to know that next month I’ll be featuring a Nature Walk post about a wonderful place in south Florida called Corkscrew Swamp and it was filled with lovely Cypress trees!
The only thing that we have seen about Cypresses (one of our absolute favourites) was on one of Steve’s redneck TV shows called Swamp People where they were talking about how the logs can lay in water for centuries and still be useable (no rotting). I just love them. I have a beautiful Taxodium distichum ‘Cascade Falls” that my girls gave me a couple of years ago for Christmas that we planted out this year on Serendipity Farm that is absolutely gorgeous. We also have a couple of regular Taxodiums that we will need to find a “moist” place for as they LOVE it wet. 🙂
Cypress trees are on of my favorites too! I just love tromping through the swamp and seeing these majestic trees. It is because they don’t rot, that they were prized for lumber and many of the cypress forests in south Florida were logged almost completely…it was very sad. Most of them are protected now. 🙂
I would love to tromp through a cypress swamp and see that magnificence 🙂 The son and heir has decided that his American sweetie Kelsey is just the ticket and I think it might go much further now so who knows? Maybe one day we might have to hop a plane and head on over to the US. I might just head on down to Florida (not that far from Texas as the crow flies…) and have a look-see for myself 🙂
Ahh that’s amazing.. 🙂 it breaks my heart when they chop trees like that. Mostly for industrial reasons here in the city. Grr. I visited a small town in Holland a couple of weeks ago, where the entire village was filled with giant old trees!! Hanging silently over the water.. standing next to the road, everything. What made everything even better, it was foggy!
Ohhh, I’d LOVE to go to Holland some day! I’m studying horticulture and Holland is the birthplace of so many great gardening and greenhouse innovations. Plus, tulips are my favorite flower and I’d love to see them in bloom there! That picture came from an area that was saved from the devastating logging that happened a couple of decades ago. I’m actually writing a Nature Walk post about it next month. 🙂
Ah yeah that’s true! As soon as you cross the border, at least where I used to live, you enter the countryside.. and if you don’t have land, you create some to grow veggies in your own backyard lol!
As a matter of fact, the countryside is so intertwined with the country itself, that it keeps going until right at the edge of the city. And then in the city there’s trees, and tons of interior design stores to make the inside of your appartment feel happy too. With sheets with cows on it for example lol!
I loved it there, and I think you would too. 😀
Ohhhh, you’ve made me so much more excited to go there now! I may have to go a little sooner than originally planned! 🙂
What a great idea. I keep hearing people say, “You should start a grateful journal.” But it would be much more fun on line, especially with pictures. And help me keep things in perspective when I get overwhelmed. I might have to just implement that in my blog, or maybe I’ll start a new one….brilliant idea, Katie. (Which is my all-time favorite name btw.) And thanks for the shout-out on Twitter. 🙂
I was inspired by a 30 Day Gratitude Challenge that I found on a fellow bloggers site. This is the link: http://cauldronsandcupcakes.com/2012/07/18/day-1-gratitude-challenge/ It is a great excersice, she gives you a topic to think about each day and it helps get you into the habit of finding those little things that you’re grateful for. After the challenge ended, I just kept writing in my gratitude journal each evening and thought it might be fun to put some pictures with a few of the entries. I write five things every night and some of them are just for me but some of them I like to share too! I’m going to start sharing one each week on the blog and I’ll be inviting everyone else to share too, so get your links ready! 🙂