Tied Up Today

Today we are celebrating the life of Wilma Wollenweber (1929-2026)! She loved my "flowers on dark green" tie, naming it almost eve...

For Mother's Day 2025, I'm wearing this tie with pink flowers on dark green, selected (often) by Mom Wilma Wollenweber. We've kn...

Today was the first of three celebrations for Wilma Wollenweber's 95th birthday! More than 60 family and friends gathered at Richmond Fi...

Yesterday was Paul Kleppinger's sixth birthday, and he wanted me to wear this flowered tie -- so he gets to see it today! (It is also a ...

 Happy Birthday, Wilma Wollenweber! My great mother-in-law has reached 93, and (as far as I know) all of her family are very proud of her wi...

Today's floral tie was chosen by Wilma Wollenweber -- she says it's one of her top favorites in my collection. Today is Mom's bi...

Today's floral tie honors the birthday of Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), best known as the author of "The Secret Garden...

My tie for today was chosen by Wilma Wollenweber, to honor her 90th birthday! Our celebration continues after the party yesterday with a fam...

Today is (Mom) Wilma Wollenweber's birthday! She is very happy to be celebrating #89. She asked me to wear this flowers-on-dark-green ti...

265 years ago today, Carl Linnaeus published his book "Species Plantarum," defining the taxonomy for the plant kingdom. So this is...

My dear sister Gloria Rae (Kleppinger) Huizenga is celebrating her birthday today! Let's just say she was an "early" Baby Boom...

Today is "Houseplant Appreciation Day," as proclaimed by The Gardener's Network . We have many leafy and flowering houseplants...

It's Bastille Day! And so it is very appropriate to honor the French Republican Calendar's identification of today as Sage Plant Day...

Today is Mother's Day! I asked my mother (-in-law) Wilma Wollenweber to select a tie, and she chose this flowery one.

Bright flowers today to honor my Uncle Bob Kleppinger, whose funeral is today (in Bethlehem, PA). He loved houseplants, particularly African...

Flowers on green, selected by my mother-in-law Wilma Wollenweber to help celebrate her birthday today! I've been very happy to be part o...

Today's Bastille Day celebrations coordinate nicely with honoring Sage Day (26 Messidor) on the French Republican Calendar. The blue-pur...

This is Wildflowers Week! It is also National Hug Holiday Week, but you must be very careful which wildflowers you choose to hug -- avoid hu...

April (and May) showers have brought out May flowers!

My tie for today was chosen by Clyde David Burberry, our "adopted brother" and great friend (and former pastor), whose birthday an...