Feeling a little nostalgic for my kitchen garden back in Virginia this morning. These are photos resurrected from the archives, and taken over several years. I do hope my old watering can is OK.
Tag: garden
Longhorn.
I found this sleeping longhorn bee while weeding early in the day. It’s lucky it didn’t end up in the compost bin. Excluding its antennae, it is only about a centimeter long.
In Glendale, Arizona.
Cukes are coming in! The kitchen garden seems to be lagging a bit this year due to our cool spring weather. I will be eating my first cucumber of the season today for lunch – a few weeks later than usual, but still before the first day of summer. I don’t expect to have any tomatoes until well after the 4th of July.
Cukes are coming in! The kitchen garden seems to be lagging a bit this year due to our cool spring weather. I will be eating my first cucumber of the season today for lunch – a few weeks later than usual, but still before the first day of summer. I don’t expect to have any tomatoes until well after the 4th of July.
What’s Blooming: My favorite spiderish daylily. In Portsmouth, Virginia
What’s Blooming: My favorite spiderish daylily. In Portsmouth, Virginia
I decided today was close enough to Tax Day to set out the hummingbird feeders.
Also, today I’m sporting my new garden hat for 2013.* I like it because it is utterly formless and completely without style, and there is no brim to get in the way when I’m shooting photos. I have recently been informed (with totally needless snark) that I have a huge minor and inconspicuous bald spot (though I haven’t verified it by personal observation, and am somewhat skeptical) that probably needs protection from the sun. My motto: Better safe than neoplastic.
*L.L.Bean twill bucket hat, Cat. No. TK269747, “The Geezer.” I mean it when I say this hat is completely without style, despite what the April issue of GQ says. If you wear one of these and think you look stylish, trust me, you do not. Even your mythical L.L.Bean boyfriend looks foolish wearing this hat.
I decided today was close enough to Tax Day to set out the hummingbird feeders.
Also, today I’m sporting my new garden hat for 2013.* I like it because it is utterly formless and completely without style, and there is no brim to get in the way when I’m shooting photos. I have recently been informed (with totally needless snark) that I have a huge minor and inconspicuous bald spot (though I haven’t verified it by personal observation, and am somewhat skeptical) that probably needs protection from the sun. My motto: Better safe than neoplastic.
*L.L.Bean twill bucket hat, Cat. No. TK269747, “The Geezer.” I mean it when I say this hat is completely without style, despite what the April issue of GQ says. If you wear one of these and think you look stylish, trust me, you do not. Even your mythical L.L.Bean boyfriend looks foolish wearing this hat.
Found: My guess is that a crow took this as plunder from a neighbor’s yard, and dropped it in my garden when it lost interest.
Found: My guess is that a crow took this as plunder from a neighbor’s yard, and dropped it in my garden when it lost interest.
Dithyramb 