Ann Loves Plants

Tag: prickly pear

  • Eating and Sleeping in the Garden

    Moving a blog from one platform to another takes time. I dreaded working through this process, and now, I’m simply overwhelmed by it. The list of required changes looms large on my list of lists. Days continue to pass by me but daily I’m trying to learn a new trick here at my new home…

  • Sicily: Part One (Termini Imerese)

    This is Termini Imerese in the province of Palermo, Sicily. It’s the hometown of my great-grandparents Frank and Rosaria Amato. It’s also the town my great-great grandfather Salvatore Amato decided to return to in order to live out his final years after he’d brought all of his sons here to Portland, OR to help them…