Category: Colonnades Senior Living Community

  • A shrinking space …

    A shrinking space …

    Who knew there was a moth (Hemaris thysbe) that looks like a minute hummingbird?

  • Happy National Pollinator Week from the Colonnades Gardeners!

    Happy National Pollinator Week from the Colonnades Gardeners!

  • Butterfly Garden

    Butterfly Garden

    Colonnades Gardeners are so pleased to have received our certificate and sign recognizing our Butterfly Garden from the North American Butterfly Association. Thanks so much! We will try to capture some beautiful photos to share as the weeks go by.

  • Prompt: Crisis

    For about the last five or six years, my life has been one crisis after another – or maybe the whole period could be classified as a single crisis. In any case there is light at the end of the tunnel, so I have decided to write about a long ago crisis that probably shaped…

  • Our Loom Project Is Getting Very Interesting!

    I am finding that 3D modeling and printing custom looms involves many more variables than I ever imagined. There are so many choices to make even from the first step of beginning in Fusion 360, and the terminology is taking me a while to learn. I am finding that it is hard to do something…

  • A Tale of Two Barbaras

    Again this is a story driven by my college days in the early 60’s at Trinity College in Washington, DC. One of my good friends in those days was a chemistry student named Barbara who was from New York City. She was such an interesting person to talk to because she always had so much…