Category: garden

September

It doesn’t seem like we really had summer this year. It was 47 degrees this morning! But it’s September, and I welcome the new month. I am really enjoying the circle garden. The native...

A harvest feeling

I love looking at the pile of garlic bulbs. All cleaned up and ready to hang in the pantry. There are more in the shed but they’ll wait until we get back from Portland....

Whirring

I spent some lovely time in the garden this morning. Everything looks beautiful, but I chose to photograph this view. The asparagus raised beds are in there somewhere, but overflowing with winter squash, cosmos,...

Seeing what I see

Beautiful morning after a rainy night. Chilly outside early. Everything was sparkling with raindrops. Today picking raspberries in the fruit yard, I was thinking about what I see there. Sam usually picks raspberries, but...

Fava beans and a shift

I’m going to a family party later today. I decided to bring fava bean pesto. This is a major process with many steps. I made a photo essay. Note: about the shift. For the...

Back to the land

I’ve been neglecting the garden. All the rain – I convince myself I don’t need to water, and thus don’t need to do anything. But – the weeds! And the climbing things like cucumbers...

My neighbors

I know a lot of my neighbors. Not all of them, but many more than I knew where I lived in Connecticut. Some of them are “summer people” – don’t live here year round....