It may have been all stars and stripes in NY in the wake of our departure, but it was mostly business as usual here in the garden on the 4th of July. Still, maybe it was reading blog posts about people's days, or emails from family, but yesterday my mom and I suddenly found ourselves …
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Compote
A recipe for compote: You'll need some peaches, And some apricots. Peel them if you like, and cut them up. Put them in a pot with water to cover and sugar (or honey, or stevia) to taste. Toss in: Herb flowers- these are oregano. They grow wild in the garden and are a great favorite …
Have your roses and drink them too
I was talking to my mother as I weighed the sugar to add to the rose sherbet. We will be visiting her in NY in a month, so there always seems to be plenty to talk about. "Okay," I said, "the sugar is weighed and I can add it with the water." "Are you going …
Roses and a recipe
Spring is wonderful because it is full of flowers that are brave enough to push up and bare their faces to the chilly days. They dare us to forget the dark winter months, and how could we not in the company of daffodils? Some flowers, though, wait until the season is well underway, even turning …
New neighbor
SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/siobhanwilde/Documents/cigdem.doc Finding a new apartment is one of my least favorite things to do. It just brings back visions of all of those horrible, horrible tiny smelly flats that I would find myself standing in, with a real estate agent intoning that this was the last apartment available on the planet Earth, so I had …
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