A.L.H. Hughes, Author at Day Moon-Crow Moon

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

December 27, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

Another year, another blog look-back (here are the look-backs from the previous years: 2024, 2023). This year things have been a bit thin around here on daymooncrowmoon.com (which is particularly too bad, considering that this year’s Serial Steam-of-Consciousness Story, ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’ is my favorite of the SSCSs posted so far, and then I wasn’t around much with proper posts to give it much company, alas, alack!). This thinness would be easy to blame on the fact…

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 51

December 23, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where my lentin roses are trying to figure out what season it is.)

photo taken in December 2025 of frosted ground cover.

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 50

December 16, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which is sunny and kinda chilly?)

composite of icon images for different story realms, with only the SSCS icon image in full color (2025)

2025 Writing Progress

December 11, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

Well, once again it is the time of year when I’d like to post up how my writing progress has gone for the year. For past years, the posts are at: 2024, 2023. This year I’ve been kind of dreading putting this post together, because 2025 has not been a good writing year for me. Instead 2025 has been a lot in terms of life events, especially in the first half of the year, and that has translated on the…

Weekly Garden Snapshots: 2025 week 49

December 9, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where there was actual snow for a couple of days, but now things are just slightly soggy.)

photo taken in November 2025 of frosted autumn plants.

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 48

December 2, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (With little, tiny bits of snow!)

photo taken in November 2025 of yellow and orange pansies.

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 47

November 25, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (With ladybugs!)

photo taken in November 2025 of autumn-red raspberry leaves.

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 46

November 18, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which still has barely had a frost yet this season.)

fly-by-posting: 2025/11/16 (w/pics)

November 16, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

I climbed a mountain for my birthday! and on purpose this time (which is a lot more fun than the other way). (Okay, so we hiked a mountain for my birthday, but with a 3200 ft elevation gain, I feel like I’m allowed to classify that as ‘climbed’.)

Roses Round-up 2025

November 13, 2025 A.L.H. Hughes

So! November has come and it is time for the Showing of the Roses! This was a really weird year for my garden. It started with a positively luxuriously wet spring, wherein simply everything was green. But that then evolved into the usual Hot and Dry Summer, which was further compounded by my being away and not watering for large swaths of that time. And then we’ve had an exceptionally mild fall, but I think most of the plants were…