I plant sweet corn not only because I adore the taste of it…but because I am also in love with the way the wind dances through its leaves, singing its beautiful songs of summer…
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Happy Monday everyone! This week brought a mixture of harvests, including the first jalapeno and the first Happy Hot Peppers! Dave, I’m hoping you might have some insight/shared curiosity about why ours went straight from green to red instead of the pretty orange you’ve gotten in the past. Very interesting…I guess we’ll…
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With our warm spring and zero late frosts, our fruit trees are doing wonderfully this year! Despite the cherry fiasco, we are anticipating a hefty harvest of apples, apricots and pears this summer and fall…well, as hefty as one might expect from a couple of young trees 😉 We noticed…
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UncategorizedThe Flowering Carrot
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.~Phyllis Theroux Wishing you all a lovely weekend full of creation!
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Uncategorized1950s Singer Sewing Machine
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that I work at a non-profit that serves girls from age 5 to 15 through after school and summer camp programs. Because we are a non-profit, people are constantly donating items to us that they think might be “good” or “fun” or “useful” for the…
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A good friend of mine celebrated a birthday recently, and given her love of trees, I decided to paint her a tiny tree to wear around her neck 😉 Yes, that means I’m painting again! I haven’t painted in a while and have had a myriad of excuses (school, work, the garden…yada…