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Discovered: A Secret Nest in the Window Box

May 25, 2018

Spring has taken it’s sweet time to come to Cape Cod. Still with temperatures in the 40s at night- mid May, it seems as though everything is stalled. Beautiful annuals that usually spill from the window boxes on the front of my home were also delayed. The window boxes lay dormant and lifeless. Still filled…

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Halloween Fun: Tricks and Treats

October 24, 2016

I love celebrating Halloween with my kids. Both of my kids do not enjoy being spooked with scary masks or things that go bump in the night, but rather they enjoy the more whimsical side of Halloween. This year, we were especially lucky that my editor at DIY Network had kid-friendly Halloween crafts in mind…

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The Umbrella Nest

July 7, 2015

Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this lovely robin’s nest. A robin must have felt safe and stealthy made a nest in the top of my garden umbrella. A few days ago, I went to take the umbrella down because of an approaching storm. I suddenly realized that I couldn’t. A nest with a single…

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DIY Corsage and Boutonniere

February 4, 2014

One of my favorite things to collect are birds nests. Over the years I have collected quite a few. A little while back HGTV asked me to come up with a fun garden-inspired corsage and boutonniere, nests immediately came to mind. I wanted to fill the nest with round blooms that resembled eggs. Ranunculus blossoms…

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Nesting Carolina Wrens

August 7, 2013

The Carolina Wrens were back this year to make their nest in the window box outside the kitchen window. As a surprise another couple, maybe one of last year’s babies, selected a very strange place to build a new nest. This nest was built in the window underneath the air conditioning unit in our master…

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The Wren’s Surprise

May 4, 2011

A Rare Glimpse I had been trying all weekend to capture a picture of the Carolina Wren’s eggs that they have built in the nest of my window box. This is the third year that they have returned to the same window box on our deck! Last year, we were deeply saddened to find out that…

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Discovered: A Secret Nest in the Window Box

Halloween Fun: Tricks and Treats

The Umbrella Nest

DIY Corsage and Boutonniere

Nesting Carolina Wrens

The Wren’s Surprise

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