Creating Interest

This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives.

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

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Family History - Teen Fashions - and Clamdigger Blues A family memory has prompted me to register this hybrid daylily with the name Clam...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Family history - my maternal grandfather

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This is my grandfather, William Feaster, on his farm in central New Jersey.  I estimate his age to be about 30 and the year to be 191...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Family history - hints of prosperity in 1921

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Because the car behind the people looks new, I think this family portrait dates from either the late autumn of 1920 or the early winter of 1...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

April colors

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The start of April brings a few thrills here as the creeping phlox come into bloom on the berm that most people imagine is on my neighbor...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The Story of Frank and Naples

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In the year we no longer feared "Y2K" and the collapse of world banking and missile defenses, I invented a private detective in a ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Things Are Shaping Up Nicely

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My title is taken from a the mouth of a character in one of the novels of the French author, Colette, who I remember reading during the summ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Bright Day After a Grieving Day

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There's an open circle of water inside frozen Hidden Lake today.  A huge council of Canada Geese arrived a week or two ago to take up...
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St. Peters, Midwest/Missouri, United States
I am a retired director of a statewide cultural foundation. For several decades, my professional focus was on improving the level of interest in small museums and in community programming in libraries. During that time, my private passion was gardening. I was drawn to hybridizing daylilies in 1992. That, and classical choral singing, and playing my guitars are my passions in retirement. In 2010, Kathy Bouman and I left our cozy city neighborhood to live on an acre and a half "estate" at Hidden Lake (Lago Segretto) in St. Peters, MO. Kathy passed away in 2014. I married Karen Berry in June of 2015. She is a passionate gardener and has brought birds and butterflies to our deck and our gardens. We are a good match. In late September of 2015 we added a standard poodle puppy, Lucy, to our family. A year later we added another standard poodle, Max. My daylily garden is named Daylily Lay with a smile in the direction of the Nashville skyline and a song by Bob Dylan. You can see all about that part of my life at daylilylay.com
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