Susan Branch
@dearsusanbranch.bsky.social
Happy gene, NY Times bestselling author, watercolor artist, love Joe, girlfriends, cooking, my central coast garden, riding train & QM2 to England❤️ Heart of the Home. www.susanbranch.com
Driving an hour south yesterday on California 101… stunningly pretty!
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Driving an hour south yesterday on California 101… stunningly pretty!
Awwww, I’m sorry! Believe it or not I’m working on the 2027 calendars… deadline is coming! Also went to the dentist today! Joe is outside planting a rose tree, I took a picture of the house for you!❤️
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Awwww, I’m sorry! Believe it or not I’m working on the 2027 calendars… deadline is coming! Also went to the dentist today! Joe is outside planting a rose tree, I took a picture of the house for you!❤️
Look what came in!! My new dish towel! So happy with it, luv-lee color, fabric, good size, red stripes on both sides, absorbent, and festive!😆 Read more at susanbranch.com and click on shopping. ❌⭕️
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Look what came in!! My new dish towel! So happy with it, luv-lee color, fabric, good size, red stripes on both sides, absorbent, and festive!😆 Read more at susanbranch.com and click on shopping. ❌⭕️
How come monsters don’t eat ghosts???
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Because they taste like sheet. 😝 😅🤣
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Because they taste like sheet. 😝 😅🤣
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
How come monsters don’t eat ghosts???
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Because they taste like sheet. 😝 😅🤣
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Because they taste like sheet. 😝 😅🤣
I love him so much… he stood guard over Halloween in our neighborhood from our front 2nd story bedroom window for at least 15 years! 👻 #Casper #Halloween #Tradition
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I love him so much… he stood guard over Halloween in our neighborhood from our front 2nd story bedroom window for at least 15 years! 👻 #Casper #Halloween #Tradition
Waaaaaah! 😪 Way too soon! We should have a Diane Keaton party and everyone come dressed like Diane Keaton, and celebrate her life and all our memories she was part of. Very sad to see her gone.😔
October 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Waaaaaah! 😪 Way too soon! We should have a Diane Keaton party and everyone come dressed like Diane Keaton, and celebrate her life and all our memories she was part of. Very sad to see her gone.😔
I’ve been watching this butterfly chrysalis hanging from my birdbath… yesterday it was EMPTY!😱 I’m new at this so I thought something got it. But no, just below it, supping on yarrow, there it was!💃🏻 We grow butterflies in our butterfly #garden You’re welcome earth, it’s the least we can do. 💞💞💞
October 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I’ve been watching this butterfly chrysalis hanging from my birdbath… yesterday it was EMPTY!😱 I’m new at this so I thought something got it. But no, just below it, supping on yarrow, there it was!💃🏻 We grow butterflies in our butterfly #garden You’re welcome earth, it’s the least we can do. 💞💞💞
It’s a Time Machine in our garden! And an amazing sky!
September 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It’s a Time Machine in our garden! And an amazing sky!
Going fast, to the tune of 400 books in the mail each day! Did you order yours? When you get it, let me know; already running out! Think Christmas! BTW, from left, Kellee (Queen of my Studio), her MOM, Kitty😍, Kellee's friend, Ashley, MY Joe!!!💝 Revised 30th Anniversary edition of The Summer Book!👏
September 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Going fast, to the tune of 400 books in the mail each day! Did you order yours? When you get it, let me know; already running out! Think Christmas! BTW, from left, Kellee (Queen of my Studio), her MOM, Kitty😍, Kellee's friend, Ashley, MY Joe!!!💝 Revised 30th Anniversary edition of The Summer Book!👏
Last night, warm and crickety! Outside enjoying Joe’s birthday lights at 8 pm when it finally got too dark for gardening!!!
August 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Last night, warm and crickety! Outside enjoying Joe’s birthday lights at 8 pm when it finally got too dark for gardening!!!
Guess what? A new blog post is UP!! Hope you love it!💝(Video catches sights and sounds on my walk! Joe on the tractor!)
August 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Guess what? A new blog post is UP!! Hope you love it!💝(Video catches sights and sounds on my walk! Joe on the tractor!)
We met in 1972! Girlfriends forever! Terrie has ice cream, I have peach dessert, Diane has pitcher of water! Getting by with a little help from our friends!😘😘😘😘 New friend, Butch on guitar!🥰
August 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We met in 1972! Girlfriends forever! Terrie has ice cream, I have peach dessert, Diane has pitcher of water! Getting by with a little help from our friends!😘😘😘😘 New friend, Butch on guitar!🥰
More more more…💝💝💝 🥳🎈🥳🎈🥳🎈🥳🎈🎂🎈🎊🎁
August 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
More more more…💝💝💝 🥳🎈🥳🎈🥳🎈🥳🎈🎂🎈🎊🎁
MIA because we had a party that took every last second to prepare for— Joe’s birthday! It was the BEST! Such a fun time… a whole garden full of love -~ to heart overflowing!
August 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
MIA because we had a party that took every last second to prepare for— Joe’s birthday! It was the BEST! Such a fun time… a whole garden full of love -~ to heart overflowing!
It’s my dad’s birthday, he’d be 102 today. My champion! Here he is with me at a book talk in Santa Barbara; plus a little note he wrote for no reason, (proof of paternity👏showing off his happy gene), and two excerpts from my book, Fairytale Girl.💝 Happy Birthday darling Daddio in heaven.💝
August 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It’s my dad’s birthday, he’d be 102 today. My champion! Here he is with me at a book talk in Santa Barbara; plus a little note he wrote for no reason, (proof of paternity👏showing off his happy gene), and two excerpts from my book, Fairytale Girl.💝 Happy Birthday darling Daddio in heaven.💝
Last night! 💝💝💝
August 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Last night! 💝💝💝
It’s here! 5 copies for me, overnight from the printer — it’s gorgeous! They did a wonderful job.👏👏👏This never gets old! If you preordered, your book will be sent the minute the rest of the shipment arrives! Can’t wait to see what you think!💝
August 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It’s here! 5 copies for me, overnight from the printer — it’s gorgeous! They did a wonderful job.👏👏👏This never gets old! If you preordered, your book will be sent the minute the rest of the shipment arrives! Can’t wait to see what you think!💝
This orange tree was here when we bought this place in 2002.🍊 Juiciest best oranges, no seeds, maybe Valencia. It sits on the edge of the driveway with a dry field behind it. I gave it a bench and a hydrangea… and WATER! 💝
July 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This orange tree was here when we bought this place in 2002.🍊 Juiciest best oranges, no seeds, maybe Valencia. It sits on the edge of the driveway with a dry field behind it. I gave it a bench and a hydrangea… and WATER! 💝
News from the garden! Nature is pure magic. I am in awe of what it can do. We need to love it more. Such a GIFT!💝 Here’s our Calamondin tree in bloom, happy agapanthus, our plum tree, the calamondin is still a baby, someday it will be 15 to 20 feet tall. 😊 Have a WONDERFUL day!😘
July 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
News from the garden! Nature is pure magic. I am in awe of what it can do. We need to love it more. Such a GIFT!💝 Here’s our Calamondin tree in bloom, happy agapanthus, our plum tree, the calamondin is still a baby, someday it will be 15 to 20 feet tall. 😊 Have a WONDERFUL day!😘
My dad used to review my books.👏👏👏How I miss him!!! 💝
July 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My dad used to review my books.👏👏👏How I miss him!!! 💝
Summer afternoon in the garden!!⛱️
July 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Summer afternoon in the garden!!⛱️
Not yet, but yesterday we “walked the path” from the map I made… which meant plowing through shoulder-high wildflowers. Joe marked our way with little numbered flags. It was so fun to see it coming true! We’ll keep the path dirt ~ till it’s flat & weed free… then we’ll lay it with sod.
July 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Not yet, but yesterday we “walked the path” from the map I made… which meant plowing through shoulder-high wildflowers. Joe marked our way with little numbered flags. It was so fun to see it coming true! We’ll keep the path dirt ~ till it’s flat & weed free… then we’ll lay it with sod.
We planted a new apple tree in the wildflower garden!
July 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We planted a new apple tree in the wildflower garden!
More colors will come as the plants establish themselves and grow … I’m sort of waiting for next year to see what this turns out to look like before I finish planting the other side. That’s the other side in the photo. I love this so much I have no words! Communing with nature! Figuring stuff out!
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
More colors will come as the plants establish themselves and grow … I’m sort of waiting for next year to see what this turns out to look like before I finish planting the other side. That’s the other side in the photo. I love this so much I have no words! Communing with nature! Figuring stuff out!