This year I have my own tree for the very first time. In the past, I've spent Christmas under other people's trees -- my parents' or my cousin Elaine's, or I've been abroad on my own somewhere and improvised. I feel a bit ambivalent about having bought a fake tree, but there it is. I …
Author: Garden Correspondent
Gardener, mom, reader, and all round messy person.
Snapshots
My father took it almost personally when it turned out that I was not so great at taking photographs, and this in turn made me not want to take them so much. Then one day I decided that I would just take snapshots and not worry so much about it, and just like that I …
Happy Thanksgiving!
1 p.m. Turkey goes in4 p.m. Turkey comes out6:30 p.m. Blast off!Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I hope a lovely day was had by all. I'm going to go sleep off all that turkey...
In my kitchen November 2012
With school back in session for a few months now, we have settled into the routine of moving between the garden and the city. This month, I am in my city kitchen, not our outdoor garden kitchen. In this kitchen, there is ... A tea cozy Before I lived with chickens, I used to think …
Farewell, summer, hello green tomatoes!
Some garden chores we do without thinking much of it. You know the ones I mean -- the weeding, cutting plants back, staking them, crushing caterpillars or looking for eggs on the underside of a leaf. But others have more weight because they are harbingers of their seasons. As we move ever more firmly out …
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