Juniper Rydge

12/15/2025

The Christmas decorating has begun at Juniper Rydge! The “Gallery Room” will be transformed next! We hope you will put us on your dance card🌲

09/18/2025

Please take 30 seconds to have letters automatically sent to our reps in Miami-Dade telling them hands off the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center!

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/take-action-protect-the-biscayne-nature-center-and-marjory-stoneman-douglass-legacy?source=direct_link&

The Issue: The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center, located in Crandon Park on Key Biscayne, has been issued an eviction notice by Miami-Dade County, requiring the nonprofit to vacate its facility by November 23, 2025. At the same time, the County’s proposed FY25–26 budget includes a...

08/13/2025

Happy Garden Dance!!
Jim and I are delighted to announce we have found a Monarch Caterpillar on a tiny Milkweed plant. The plant was stealthily hidden away between two overgrown blooming Romaine plants!!

06/22/2025

Happy Solstice from our home to you! May all your Midsummer Nights dreams come true.

05/18/2025

A Sunday morning walk in my garden, May 18, 2025. A beautiful day🦋

05/15/2025

Happy 46th Anniversary to our 1905 American Four Square Home!!
Today, May 15, 1979, Larry, Judy, along with two very little boys, Kirk and Ryan, moved into this old house.
Little could we imagine that 46 years later our family would still be here.
Larry, in spirit, Kirk and Ryan with their families visit when they can.
It is truly a love story and as a willing caretaker I am still delighted to be able to continue sharing my home, now with Jim, friends and family.
This year we are adding
raised beds to our vegetable garden. Photos to come upon completion.
Since our home is flexible we gave reimagined two rooms. The living room has become our at home art gallery and Jim is working on his music in our former formal dining room.
We feel blessed to be here and hope you to will visit!🤗🤗

03/02/2025

Making the house ready for Spring days and kind visitors.
We are excited that our neighborhood is being youthfully regenerated! Only 46 years ago we were the youngsters with big dreams too!

03/02/2025

Setting a table and presentation of food makes for a wonderful experience. When I studied Japanese cooking our first lesson that we were taught was people “eat with their eyes first”. So a beautiful presentation is key to a lovely meal.
These were taken when our dear friend visited many years ago. Thank you Janel Fox, we hope to see you someday soon!

Weekend Brunch with Janel Fox and Jim. We made some old favorites with healthier ingredients. Menu: Vegan Borscht Soup with Homemade Tofu Sour Cream; Quiche w/ Wild Alaskan Salmon, Broccoli with a Dijon Mustard Sauce; Sautéed super greens with ginger and assorted veggies; French Croissants with organic strawberry jam; Juices including Carrot, Pear, Orange and Grapefruit. What fun we had!

02/21/2025

One night in 1982 I had tucked the children into bed, the laundry was finished and breakfast was prepared and put into the refrigerator for safe keeping. My husband, asleep as well, I sat down to watch something on TV. This show came on and I was fascinated by the title, with a sad start it had a lovely ending. I never had a Grandmother to be with me but my Mother was fabulous. To make a long story just a wee bit longer…maybe you might like to see Ray Bradberry’s “Electric Grandmother”.

One of the greatest movies ever. For whatever reason, my grade school would play this god damn movie every year from kindergarten to fifth grade. Enjoy thi...

02/17/2025

Did someone say “Tea Time”? Coming soon…