Planting in the Vegetable Garden
Today we got started on our vegetable garden. We pulled up the weeds from the winter, added three bags of compost and turned the soil. I didn’t think to take a ‘before’ picture of the raised bed, but it was looking pretty shabby. I…
Mindless Physical Labor Equals Mental Creativity
I had a lot of physical work to do today (steam cleaning the carpets) and it was the perfect kind of work for letting the mind wander, since it doesn’t take a whole lot of brains to push a steam-cleaner back and forth across…
Taming the Black Bamboo
We have a small grove of black bamboo planted in our back yard, and while its not completely taking over everything it does need a bit of maintenance to keep it in line. We planted it about five years ago to try and block…
Front Porch Ashtray
My mother-in-law is coming to visit us from South America for an extended stay, and she’s a smoker. She’s always been very accommodating about smoking outside of our house and she generally goes out onto our covered front porch to smoke. In years past…
Japanese Plum Tree
I did some more playing around with photographs tonight. I took these photos yesterday at the same time as the hellebores, but I did the photo editing tonight. First I tried the same technique of selectively colorizing a photo, with a more subtle effect…
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