Digging wins three Mousies!
I’ve just learned that Digging has won three 2007 Mouse & Trowel Awards: Best Photography, Best Design, and Best North American Garden Blog.
Wow!! Thank you, readers! I’m honored by your votes, especially when I reflect on the wonderful blogs that shared the ballot with Digging. To be nominated was thrilling; to win, humbling.
These awards mean so much to me in the way of validating what I do at Digging. As other bloggers know, garden-blogging takes a lot of time and effort on two different levels: writing and photography. With other types of blogs, the focus may be just on writing. But when you blog about gardening, you also want great photographs to illustrate your topic. And you can’t just go grab someone else’s images to do that. You’ve got to get out in your garden, lying in the dirt, if necessary, to get the right shot. You also must have a garden to photograph. As even the smallest container garden requires time and manual labor—labor of love though it may be—you’ve got to factor that in as part of the garden-blogging equation.
What I’m trying to say is that everyone who garden-blogs works hard at what they do. And they do it, for the most part, with no expectation of profit or fame. They just love gardening, sharing their garden, enjoying other people’s gardens, and having a conversation about gardening. So thank you to Colleen for giving all garden-bloggers a little love with the Mousies, and thank you to all the garden-bloggers. You all deserve recognition for what you do, and the Mousies, by bringing attention to garden-blogging, have given you some.
But most of all, thank you to everyone who reads Digging and thought it worthy of your vote.
Congratulations, Pam – your site is a continuing delight, and you bring honor to Austin. If there were an extra Mousie for bringing Garden Bloggers together in person, you’d have that one, too. Your hospitality led to our first meeting, and your organizational skills led to the recent meeting of the Austin Garden Bloggers.
Thank you for all of it.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Pam… Congratulations! I always enjoy a visit to your blog because it is like a travelogue through either your garden or some great garden place nearby. You’ve introduced us “northern gardeners” to a different kind of garden with different challenges than we face. Keep up the good blogging!
Carol at May Dreams Gardens Where Today Will Be Bright and Sunny and 70 Degrees. Heaven on Earth!
Pam — Congratulations. All well deserved. And I second what Annie said about bringing us Austin garden bloggers together.
And I want to hear (and see) more of the garden’s on yesterday’s tour. We only made it to two — the one off of Far West and the one (two houses) off of 360. I’ll be interested in hearing your thoughts and seeing the wonderful pictures I”m sure you took (I heard good things about the pool/pond in Westlake).
— Susan
Congratulations, Pam!
Pam, congratulations on your blogging awards, they are much deserved. I’m so glad the you have taken the time and effort to blog your gardening experiences, as I have said before they have brought me much enjoyment.
Congrats! Very well-deserved.
Yay, Pam! You go, gardening girl. Thanks for all your work toward putting Austin on the garden blogging map and showing the world gardening Texas style. We’re not just cactus and cowboys down here.
Congratualtions Pam! I look forward to seeing your view of the garden tour this week.
Tim-
Good for you! Much deserved recognition for all your good work.
Congrats. Just hope you aren’t charging for tours by the time Elly gets the Airstream up and running and we come down for SxSW.
A big Congrats to you, Pam! You deserve the praise!
Your blog was the very first gardening blog I found when I moved here, Pam. I was (and still am) so impressed and happy to have found a place in cyber-space where I could read about Austin gardening and learn about what is going on in the gardening world here. I am so pleased and honored to have met you and the other Austin Garden Bloggers. You have lovely websites and as you so rightly point out, work so very hard on your beautiful gardens, writing and photography. Well done!
With Admiration,
Dawn
P.S. And a very Happy Mother’s Day to you and all the lady bloggers who give so much of themselves to those around them.
Congrats Pam on your well deserved Mouse and Trowel awards. Well done and cheers:).
Hi Pam, congrats on winning 3 (three!!!) Mousies, well done you. Keep up the good work!
Congratulations on winning the Mousies in three categories. WOW ! I have enjoyed reading your many interesting posts. Keep up the good work.
Pam:
Congratulations on your Mousie! Your site is beautiful and informative and I always enjoy reading what is going on in the southwestern gardening world! Keep up the good work!
Congratulations! I’ve enjoyed reading your interesting posts and seeing the wonderful photographs! Great work!
congratulations! did you plant any laurels to rest on or will you have to recline on the prickly pear?
Everyone, thanks for your supportive notes. I deeply appreciate your visits and comments.
And Bright, you made me laugh out loud. Do Texas mountain laurels count? I sure hope so. Those prickly pears are brutal.
Congratulations, Pam! Well deserved–you have such a lovely, informational blog. 🙂
Thanks, Kim! —Pam