Tend to Your Garden/Blog

Hello, readers (if any you be!). I have been negligent about tending to my blog and, much like a garden, intellectual weeds have grown right under my feet and I find myself getting reoriented to the environment. Anyway, I'm moving into the next assignments and am finally delighted to have the parenthetical description of metadata - "descriptive information". How simple the definition and how confusing the term!

Anyway, one seed for thought as we proceed. In visiting different spots in my garden, I'm always delighted witht the botanical serendipity therein - a lamb's ear pops up where only beebalm grew; a yellow coreopsis visits in my pastel patch of yarrow. There is, to my mind, intellectual serendipity as well - and, it occurs most frequently when I allow myself the luxury of exploring a new website or reading a peer-reviewed (of course!) article that may be peripheral to my discipline. I always find new growth emerging - and I welcome the new "interlopers" (plants and ideas) into my gardens!

Fertile Ground for Videos

Greetings! This is the second portion of this Web 2.0 exercise - embedding a video in my blog. First of all, if continuity is at all important in one's blog - one needs to remember what font type, size and color you used when posting your first entry. I didn't - so I'm not sure if this will reflect consistency - but we're just practicing - whew!

So........to continue with the blog theme - I performed several different searches on Kentucky gardens; Kentucky gardening; Kentucky landscaping; Kentucky horticulture and came up with, as you might imagine, a wide assortment of video selections including container gardening with baby diapers for liners; "rock gardening" in Harlan County with four-wheelers; gardening tips from a crusty octogenarian and, finally, my choice Mickey's Garden (1935) from Walt Disney. Of course, the quality and content is wonderful and entertaining. I'm mystified, however, that is is available on YouTube. Can anyone explain the copyright complexities here? Anyway, please enjoy Micky and Pluto in this wonderful, summertime dreamscape.

Blog Bog - Too Many Choices

I'm simply amazed at how simple this first experience is - technologically speaking. The problem arose when I had to choose a Blog Topic - eeegads! Too many choices and too many interests.

Hence, I chose one right outside my window - the fine - and challenging - art of gardening. I write this to the melody of the cicadas that have come to occupy our yard here on Lancaster Rd. in the state's fifth largest county (go look it up!) @;-}

I hope to continue this blog throughout the summer - check back for more "Seeds for Thought" during the summer months as we continue our We 2.0 experience.