Spring Landscape at the Inn

I love the Spring when the landscape burst forth with vibrant shades of green and the perennials let me know that once again they have survived the winter! Here's a little photo stroll around the grounds.






This year I'm trying all zinnias in the driveway garden (between the daffodils). I hope they do better than the marigolds last year.
My decorated duck for the community art project (QuackQuackGreenville) is now up on the porch for a better view of the garden.

Time Changes But Fall Color Continues

Anyone else get caught by the time change? I got up at my usual early morning time only to discover that I had forgotten to change my clock back the night before. Oh, well, at least I now had time for one more latte before starting breakfast prep.

We are still being wowed by the Fall colors on the trees around our inn.

Glimpses of Fall

While many trees in our neighborhood are starting to color up, most of the trees on our property are holding out for mid-October. Still there is plenty of color to be found on a relaxing stroll around the ground.









This is Loki, a recent guest of a guest that stayed at the inn for a week. He was a real sweetie and not at all the troublemaker that his name would suggest.

Local Bounty

August is a wonderful time to live in an agricultural community! A local farmer stopped by yesterday with a bonanza of strawberries and cucumbers! I think I ate a half basket of strawberries before I even had time to put them away. Wow, are they good when they are this fresh. These were from the Boehm Family Farm in Climax, NY on Route 26 just 15 minutes from us. They grow Apples, Peaches, Nectarines, Pears, an assortment of Vegetables. Plus have Apple Cider, Apple Cider Donuts, Handmade gifts, and more. This was their first year growing strawberries and they had such a bumper crop they were driving around to the local restaurants to see if anyone wanted to buy some. We were more than happy to oblige.



And while we are thinking of food . . . In this photo I'm in the middle of preparing one of our breakfast specials, Asparagus and Mushroom strata. This is the onions sautéing, while the torn brioche and mushrooms wait their turn to be layered into the final dish for baking.



Still thinking of food, with a nod to gardening . . . I finally decided that it was unlikely that I'd ever get the big Victorian Greenhouse that I dream of, so if I wanted to get a Meyer's Lemon tree, I might as well just go for it now!

This is a dwarf Meyer's Lemon from Four Winds Nursery in Fremont, California. Four Winds is legendary for their dwarf citrus trees and because I spent my childhood in Fremont, where I walked past Four Winds on my way to school every day, I, of course, had to purchase my tree from them!



I'll be keeping it in a container so that I can bring it inside during the winter, but these trees do very well in containers.

I'm still working on our front garden, trying out various perennials to see what will do well. This is one of the latest - Pink Baby's Breath. It is putting out beautiful sprays of pale pink flowers, perfect for flower arrangements.



This is one side of the front garden. You can see that it still has lots of room for improvement and more flowers. Budget only allows a limited purchase of new plants each year, but I have loads of patience and half the fun of gardening is puttering around it it to see what develops!



One of our recent guests, Barbara Fiore, caught a rare shot of us together with our pups, Hudson and Bree, as we were heading out on a walk! It's rare because usually Mark or I are the ones taking the pictures, which always leaves one of us out of the shot.

Room 2 - New Quilts

Another room outfitted in quilts I have made! This time it is Room 2, which is in the Main Inn on the second floor. It has a queen bed and a twin bed, so I made "matching" quilts using a star-in-a-square block. I do the design, piecing, and binding and then the quilting was done by long arm quilter, Karen Gibbs.

Here is a look around the room:

Snowscape at the Greenville Arms 1889 Inn

We finally got a nice covering of snow in our area, probably about a foot or two. It makes the landscape so beautiful and bright.

Here is a photo tour of the grounds that I took the morning after the snow storm.

The front porch - might need something a little warmer than hot chocolate to keep you warm in those chairs!



Snow is piled high, but the roads were clear already in the early morning. The snow plow crews in our area are great.



A decorative fringe of icicles!



Pressed snow anyone? (This is an antique grape press that Mark got from his grandfather.)



The back porch steps might need a little shoveling.



More icicles on the rear of the Main Inn. This area always gets the mother of all icicles because it doesn't get any direct sunlight.



Somewhere under all that snow is our creek.



This is the front of the carriage house.



The sculpture has a nice party hat of snow.



The wishing well. I'll bet some of you are wishing for Spring!



Icicle row behind the carriage house.



The snow was up to my knees. My foot is somewhere down beneath that snow.