Category: Autumn

The Absolute Best Mashed Potato Recipe, Ever

The Absolute Best Mashed Potato Recipe, Ever

This mashed potato recipe from Food & Wine has everything: creaminess, depth of flavor, fluffiness, and reheatability without loss of flavor or texture, which provides the make-ahead convenience we all crave when we’re doing holiday cooking.

Autumn Leaves: Haiku for Autumn

Autumn Leaves: Haiku for Autumn

Three haiku that celebrate autumn, along with the lyrics and a recording of the lovely old standard “Autumn Leaves”.

Easy Caprese Salad for Two as Summer Moves Aside for Fall

Easy Caprese Salad for Two as Summer Moves Aside for Fall

This caprese salad is fresh, deeply satisfying and light, just the right thing for a late-summer / early fall first course.

Zippy Blueberry Spice Muffins: A Flavorful Twist

Zippy Blueberry Spice Muffins: A Flavorful Twist

Blueberry muffins are a comforting yet predictable treat. This recipe reinvents them with our “Zippy Autumn” spice mix, enhancing flavor and making them a standout at any meal.

Pumpkin Crepes Recipe, Just in Time for That Fall Fever

Pumpkin Crepes Recipe, Just in Time for That Fall Fever

These rich pumpkin crepes are rich, satisfying, not-too-sweet and worthy of a place on your holiday or dinner party table.

I Don’t Love Halloween, But…

I Don’t Love Halloween, But…

Halloween is an acquired taste, but adorable kids and taateful decorations make it much more palatable.

Our Zippy Autumn Spice Mix is the Real Deal

Our Zippy Autumn Spice Mix is the Real Deal

The latest Glover Gardens spice mix is called Zippy Autumn. It is our permanent replacement for “pumpkin spice”.

Happy First Day of Fall 2024! Summer Colors Abound

Happy First Day of Fall 2024! Summer Colors Abound

Peace is the overwhelming mood in the backyard at Glover Gardens today. The flowers are still blooming bright, and birds and butterflies are enjoying the first day of fall alongside us.

Birds and Beverages and Beavers’ Dens: Back in Colorado

Birds and Beverages and Beavers’ Dens: Back in Colorado

We’re finally back at Little House in the Rockies, taking some vacation time to enjoy the gorgeous fall weather at our little cabin in central Colorado.

Autumnal Haibun Flows Like a River

Autumnal Haibun Flows Like a River

A haibun about haibun and fall colors, in response to a prompt from D’Verse Poets’ Pub.

Sometimes, Just Fall Pics of Flowers, Birds and Butterflies

Sometimes, Just Fall Pics of Flowers, Birds and Butterflies

The hibiscus were the star of the garden this weekend. And the butterflies and birds were very photogenic, too.

Pumpkin Spice Blend Bird Seed? Are You Kidding Me???

Pumpkin Spice Blend Bird Seed? Are You Kidding Me???

Pumpkin spice is a thing, a social movement, a gotta-have-mine-it’s-October pull of nature almost stronger than a biological clock, but geeeeez, trying to project that onto poor birds seems like a Big Bad Bird Wrong

Gratitude and Food: Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup

Gratitude and Food: Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup

A selection of mouthwatering and tradition-laden Thanksgiving recipes from the Glover Gardens archives.

Seeds of Change

Seeds of Change

There are so many unknowns these days. But seeds of change are being sown, and autumn can bring a welcome respite.

What the Car Saw: Evening Edition (plus haiku)

What the Car Saw: Evening Edition (plus haiku)

A gorgeous, fiery sun merging with the horizon while it generously backlit the clouds and turned the evening sky into a work of art deserving of a haiku.

Autumn Haiku: Just Like Dorothy

Autumn Haiku: Just Like Dorothy

Autumn is all around us at Little House in the Rockies, and a haiku came naturally, like the fall colors.

Rooster Ballet Haiku

Rooster Ballet Haiku

I met this rooster over the weekend in Wimberley, Texas. He’s quite handsome, isn’t he? I think in ballet, this position is called a Tendu. This Hill Country rooster was so grand that he deserved a haiku. cock-a-doodle-doo cock’s-comb silhouette ballet a rooster tendu ©…

Sangria Still Life

Sangria Still Life

Real life at Glover Gardens has been a little too busy for the Glover Gardens blog to be active for the past week or two…but I’m revving up for a revival. I “catered” a friend’s 50th birthday party in the Texas Hill Country this weekend,…

Haiku: Dinner Prep Still Life

Haiku: Dinner Prep Still Life

Vegetables posing for pictures in the golden autumn afternoon light.

Haiku: The Uninterested Llama

Haiku: The Uninterested Llama

Fall colors in Jefferson, Colorado make the perfect backdrop for an uninterested llama, who inspired a haiku.