by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
After a harvest just three weeks ago, our beekeepers here from Honey Bee Abundance say we’ll have another honey harvest in August. ❤️🍯🐝 They’re busy at work! What a common miracle. #MagnaliaDei
by MAGNALIA | EVENTS, PLANTS & ANIMALS
Happy #250th, U-S-A!!! ❤️ 🙏 What an honor and responsibility to be an American Son, an American Daughter. Thanks to all the Patriots who volunteered and joined us last night at the Homestead to mark this epic and historic milestone. John Adams envisioned Independence...
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
What a crazy run of days at the Homestead: tending to eight newborn lambs, and a boxer pup named Jeb (who has a thing for chickens 🙁). We have also welcomed a newborn calf named “Hannah Vanderbilt,” thus named because our Tiny House resident here Hannah...
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
Family and friends, our “Captain of the Homestead Guard,” Jackson, has passed. After his cancer-wrecked, bony frame chased one last delivery truck early yesterday, and I then found him for the first time ever hiding under a bush, I brought him inside and...
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
Here’s a Swallowtail flitting in a happily overgrown (untended) Lantana plant, and the majesty of one of the many spider webs of August (dazzling me, just after my frustration walking THROUGH one!). Both reminded me on a morning walk today how God gives to us...
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
There seem to be “National Days” for nearly everything now. But. National Sunflower Day (which my laptop informed me upon login is TODAY) seems a worthy thing. Please let me tell you why I think it’s so. Last summer when I planted sunflowers in the...
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