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When Life Gives you Lemons
Orchard | Recipes

When Life Gives you Lemons

ByMary Crozier February 4, 2017January 23, 2023

The orchard is full of fruit and flower buds are starting to appear!  We will need to glean the trees so the new buds have enough energy to produce a hearty crop next year. So the harvesting begins! So when life gives you lemons, bake! The lemon tree, well, is not really a tree or…

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Happy February!
flowers | holiday decorating | Uncategorized

Happy February!

ByMary Crozier February 1, 2017January 23, 2023

To celebrate the beginning of February, I decided to purchase some roses before the prices increase 3x for Valentine’s Day.  It’s the Connecticut Yankee in me.  I also bought some red carnations.  I think carnations are considered inferior to other flower types, which is unfortunate.    A few years ago I used roses and carnations…

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Reflections on the Glenn house remodel
house restoration | renovation | Uncategorized

Reflections on the Glenn house remodel

ByMary Crozier January 27, 2017July 27, 2017

My last remodeling project was probably the one that generated the greatest learning and the most heartache with unexpected challenges.  Before I buy a home, it has to “feel” right.  If you believe that the walls of a home speak to you, then you know what I mean.  I can sense if a home has…

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A Bit of Sunshine
flowers | Gardening | Orchard | planting | Uncategorized

A Bit of Sunshine

ByMary Crozier January 20, 2017July 27, 2017

Typically, we enjoy sunny, sweater weather during the winter in Phoenix.  I can’t recall a winter season being so gloomy and rainy~~don’t get me wrong, we love and need the rain, but it’s rare having several days of heavy, gray, overcast skies.  The weather for the next 5 days will continue this pattern so I…

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Restoration update!
historical homes | house restoration | painting | porches | Uncategorized

Restoration update!

ByMary Crozier January 11, 2017October 12, 2020

So much has happened at the Willetta house restoration.  To read the first post on this historical renovation click here.  Perhaps the most noticeable change is to the front of the house.  When I purchased it in August, the entire house was covered in aluminum siding.  Here is the front of the house with the…

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Welcome to Life at Bella Terra. I’m Mary and I am delighted you are here. Life at Bella Terra is about embracing what the present can bring by valuing what the past built. Here, from our historic property, I will share decorating, entertaining, gardening tips as well as my adventures in the kitchen. Occasionally you may see a DIY but it’s only because it was a rare success! I hope that this blog will be a place of comfort and joy and together, we will learn something from each other along the way. Learn more >

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