I had forgotten just how much I like this work- so m uch that I'm taking this lunch to tell you about it. The annoyances will start later but right now I'm dealing with a neat little system.

We deal with some specific types of plants: three kinds of canes, various aglos, a few types of spaths, raphis palms, two or three kinds of ficus, etc. Each ( Read more... )

Also: I saw this saying on a greeting card:

To be happy for a night, get drunk. To be happy for awhile, fall in love. To be happy forever, take up gardening. It purported to be a Chinese proverb. I am enthralled.

Also Greatpoets says:

StarfishThis is what life does. It lets you walk up to ( Read more... )

This is one of two things that are on the horizon, the other one being the BSc Sustainable Agriculture from Kwantlen in fall 2010. Since this fall when I realised (with a little help) that it was so hard for me, I've been saying "I want to be a farmer" once in awhile. The looks of stunned disbelief, horror, and total incomprehension I get really ( Read more... )

So today I started a little later, but didn't get home from work in Mission quarter after ten or so. I poured a good twenty-five gallons of water on my poor wilty deck (yesterday had time to do rats but not water after work) and ate a beautiful raw ear of fresh corn on the cob and now I'm writing a little ( Read more... )

"stifles my ability to live at precisely the same time as it enables it ( Read more... )

Jiro persimmon ( Read more... )

So here I am, at home on time for sleep so I can do VanD volunteering tomorrow, slightly drunk, and very happy ( Read more... )

When the sun rises the light doesn't look pink, but everything it touched when it slants low and long like that in the morning turns a golden peach. In the last twenty-four hours the maples have really started leafing out instead of just blooming outside our window. Leaves are darker than blooms, more green and less lime, and the network of ( Read more... )

Snow and cherry blossoms ( Read more... )

I have a garden again. I went and walked it the other day. It's long and narrow and covered. What this means?

I walked into a nursery today (David Hunter, the one on Arbutus and Broadway-ish) and they had some own-root Austin roses for $17. Not all their Austins were own-root, but Teasing Georgia and Abraham Darby were. Z0MG quartered roses ( Read more... )