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Wrens colonized the back porch for their nesting efforts this year. The back porch, which is a high-traffic area with people coming and going and the parrots in near proximity and the cat having anxiety issues about the outside world. That back porch ( Read more... )

Lo, it is the Time of the Coming of the Power Lawn Care Equipment: grass clippings shall rain down upon ye, and thorns shall be cut loose to find their way underfoot, and orange extension cords shall coil vulgarly over the earth, and the skies shall be filled with diesel fumes, and the rivers shall be filled with petrochemicals, and the shrubbery ( Read more... )

Also in the continuing luscious produce theme: our sweet local organic CSA now has amazing tomatoes.

Dude, I have never seen anyone so cheerful to provide me with supplemental tomatoes. It is craaaaazy. (We had this discussion at the market last month: there are days where you have just under the number of tomatoes for a recipe and need one more ( Read more... )

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On the list of Things I Do Not Need To Do Today is 'Make a beret pattern to accompany the spats.'

Head, please to be meeting desk now.

You may blame this on Madelinetosh's new Poet Society tam, which is actually a lot cleverer than my current thought process.On my list of Actual Thing To Do Today is 'Find a cucumber-melon soup recipe that does ( Read more... )

Things I have been assaulted by in the garden this week:

• butterflies
• baby rabbits impersonating patches of dirt
• humming birds as what are too fast for the naked eye, let alone a camera lens
• wrens, although they have a long-standing equal opportunity assault policy for anything that moves in the garden


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Berlin, Berlin. You mad crazy thing, you.

'The "book forest" is part of a program called 'Research for Sustainable Forestry’ promoted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany ( Read more... )

Lately I am a bit in love with these two things:


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