Tomorrow, the boys and I will fly to New York to visit my mom. We'll be away for two weeks, and Ali will be holding down the fort. Yesterday evening as we watered, I thought about how different the garden would be when I returned. The cicadas will be chanting, and the garden will be …
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Bearing fruit
This is the result; but first, some back story.We began work in this garden four years ago. It seems like ago, although it has passed by quickly, but it is not all that much time when you think in terms of trees. With trees, time stretches out before you in decades because the steps that …
Quick trip to the garden
On my way up to the garden yesterday, I had just crossed the (now dry) river bed when I ran into traffic:I didn't have time to do much in the garden, just a little watering, harvesting lettuce (which at this point we have to eat as fast as we can before it all bolts. I …
What’s up
A little while back, the amazing Celi at the Kitchen's Garden wrote this post about what's what in her garden. And in her typically generous manner, she invited us to show her what we her readers are up to. It's not all that grand and I shot these with my iPod because I hadn't found …
Other people’s letters
(bees drunk on last year's lotus) Perhaps because I grew up writing and receiving letters, and because I became (and remain) completely obsessed with mail, I love to read books of writers' letters. Isak Dinesen's letters written while she was in Kenya and Janet Flanner's letters from Paris are among my favorites. A letter is …
Garden Correspondent 