Close up photo of Most Beloved Cat at Gardens at Effingham

Gardens at Effingham: Where Cats Tell the Tales

  • Welcome
    • Welcome to Gardens at Effingham
    • About
    • Seasonal Snapshots from the Gardens
  • Meet Most Beloved
    • Meet “Most Beloved” Cat: Her Backstory Writes the Tales
    • From the Journals of Most Beloved
    • Celebrate the Seasons! Gorgeous Garden Photos by Most Beloved
  • Meet More Cats
    • Meet More Cats
    • A Mother’s Day to Remember-Cali Cat Has Kittens
    • Happy Highlights: Newborn Kittens Video
  • Cat Journals
    • “Okay,Who Gave the Cat a Pen?”
    • The Cat, Considering Fall, Wists Melancholy
    • The Cat Writes a Poem-A Cat Tale for Spring
    • Ode to Joy of Being a Cat
    • Cat Naps and Winter Dreams: Is it Spring Yet?
    • When Peaches Meow: Musings with “Most Beloved”
    • Finding Spring in the Snow: Happiness is the Color of Daffodils
    • Happy Spring and Artful Blooms! A Poem by the Cat
    • Three Ways To Know When Summer Ends and Fall Begins (According to the Cat)
  • Seeing the Gardens: A Cat’s Eye View

Gardens at Effingham: Where Cats Tell the Tales

  • The Cat Writes a Poem-A Cat Tale for Spring

    The Cat Writes a Poem-A Cat Tale for Spring

    From the Journals of Most Beloved- Spring Journals A mid-spring’s day, a perfect day, a day neither hot nor cold; exactly as I like it Watching birds.  Robin. 2 mourning doves. A small song sparrow. Courtship of the mourning doves. Choosing a nesting spot. The intentional delivery of a well-chosen site, one safe and out […]

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    November 22, 2021
  • Happy Spring and Artful Blooms! A Poem by the Cat

    Happy Spring and Artful Blooms! A Poem by the Cat

    Celebration in Spring Blooms -by Most Beloved A Poem by the Cat Celebration in Spring Blooms by Most Beloved The serviceberries opened their white blossoms this week. A gentle breeze scatters their petals and airborne, they sift and drift down, joy in their flight, celebration in their journey. Most Affectionately Yours, Most Beloved

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    April 14, 2021
  • A Mother’s Day to Remember-Cali Cat Has Kittens

    A Mother’s Day to Remember-Cali Cat Has Kittens

    Mother’s Day Surprise A glorious May Mother’s Day, replete with brilliant blue skies and wisps of sun-drenched clouds, became gardens requiring enormous clean-up once the storm had passed. We had walked in the mid-afternoon, savoring the sun and remarking on the cerulean blue sky. But we had no longer returned home before the skies grew […]

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    March 7, 2021
  • Most Beloved’s Wish List for Spring: “David Austin Roses-A Photo Gallery of English Roses”

    Most Beloved’s Wish List for Spring: “David Austin Roses-A Photo Gallery of English Roses”

    Spring Planning (and Wishing and Wanting More Roses) It’s that time of year all over again where I’m curled up fireside, nestled on the pillow in the basket near the hearth. Snow, ice, and now gusty winds are not my cup of tea, so I’m here ruminating about what roses we need in the Gardens […]

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    February 19, 2021
  • From the Journals of Most Beloved-Dreaming of Roses

    From the Journals of Most Beloved-Dreaming of Roses

    Somewhere between here and there– Autumn in the Midwest November now-Late fall, crunchy leaves, shades of muted yellows and browns, trees standing stark against this November gray. In the midst of a dreary rain on a late fall afternoon, one must dream forward to an invincible spring, one where everywhere the gardens awaken. Only a […]

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    January 19, 2021
  • Meet “Most Beloved” Cat: Her Backstory Writes the Tales

    Meet “Most Beloved” Cat: Her Backstory Writes the Tales

    How Did I Come To Be Most Beloved? The Garden Shed Once upon a snowy winter’s evening, a little boy found me shivering and terribly hungry. I hid from the bitter cold under a garden shed, but the little boy cried out to Mommy, “Mew, Mew-Mew, Mew” over and over until she peeked down to […]

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    September 9, 2020
  • “Okay,Who Gave the Cat a Pen?”

    “Okay,Who Gave the Cat a Pen?”

    Ah ha! Captured! That stray pen–twirling, whirling, edging ever closer its way towards me. And Paper? Well, that’s a given. I’m already sitting on top of a stack of papers. ’Tis my place (always) to sit atop her papers, especially when she’s writing, especially the papers she’s trying to use.  And besides, what use does she […]

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    September 9, 2020
  • When Peaches Meow: Musings with “Most Beloved”

    When Peaches Meow: Musings with “Most Beloved”

    The Orchard Years I look up and above to the picture Mom gifted me of my 11-year-old self, hand across the back of our Labrador Retriever’s shoulder, and Dusty (our rescued groundhog) pulling at his jaw. I was sitting, plaintive smile, faraway look in my eyes even then, blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail, […]

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    August 31, 2020
  • Three Ways To Know When Summer Ends and Fall Begins (According to the Cat)

    Three Ways To Know When Summer Ends and Fall Begins (According to the Cat)

    #1. The cat is subsumed by melancholy “Oh yet to relish, to sleep, to bathe in the heat of the midday sun–” –sighs the cat Oh yet to languish, to sip, to savor a cup of catmint tea–” –bemoans the cat Act 1, Scene 1: Bay Window in the Breakfast Room. Most Beloved upon seeing […]

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    August 24, 2020
  • Hungry Hawks and Plump Kittens

    Hungry Hawks and Plump Kittens

    The kittens, at 7 months now, flush beautifully with their full winter coats. Poofy and gorgeously striped, they frequent the food bowl together, an inherent pecking order amongst them, one often under the forsythia while the other one eats.

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    August 20, 2020
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