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This is how it starts, the happiness of spring. ???

March 24, 2016 By Talya Tate Boerner

Spring has sprung in my garden and I’m feeling the happiness of spring. I worried about my tulips when our temperature plunged to a rude 25 degrees a few days ago, but bulbs are hardy and they were unfazed. Last night we had wicked weather and I spent some time in my safe place. I felt a little silly sitting in the closet with my purse but with “TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY” warnings blasting through my phone and television and tornado sirens wailing in the neighborhood, I decided I’d feel even sillier when I woke up dead.

Lucy and Annabelle wanted nothing to do with holing up in the closet. I see regular tornado drills in our future.

Luckily, we survived. Our flowers survived. I pray everyone else did because it seemed to be a severe storm. Maybe it blew the crazy March winds out of here…

So back to spring.

Check out this daffodil. What a gorgeous surprise. It bloomed from a bag of bulbs labeled mixed yellow varieties.

daffodil

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Happy Sunday! Happy Spring!

March 20, 2016 By Talya Tate Boerner

happy spring!

Just a quick post to say Happy Sunday, Happy Spring, and go away winter. Today is the first day of spring but it doesn’t feel like it. I’m so over this cold weather. When I left Austin it was 92—not that I look forward to the hot summer because I don’t—but tonight our low in Fayetteville is 25 degrees.

Over.It.

My tulips are about to bloom. I can’t protect my whole yard from the heavy frost we will most certainly get.Continue Reading

All that glitters…

December 5, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner

all that glitters is not gold - sometimes it's frost!

It’s true what Shakespeare, Tolkien and Chaucer said. All that glitters is not gold. It’s not necessarily glitter either. Not the traditional silver and gold and red sort that comes in tiny vials and makes a mess no matter how careful I am. Is that a piece of glitter on my chin? Probably. I used some last February. Oh sure, glitter adds an extra dose of merriment to craft projects. It’s downright holly jolly right until the moment it spills onto the dining room table and magically morphs into a shovelful that somehow floats onto the floor and slips between the floorboards to live for all eternity.

All.Of.Eternity.

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Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

THE THIRD ACT OF THEO GRUENE (coming 2025)

Recent Ramblings:

  • Sunday Letter: 11.23.25
  • Maggie and Miss Ladybug: My New Children’s Nature Book
  • Sunday Letter: November 9, 2025
  • Sunday Letter: Oct 26, 2025
  • Sunday Letter: Oct 5, 2025

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