06.14.09
Around the June garden



Walk down these steps, and you’ll find A’s pea trellis:

Elsewhere, the strawberries and osoberries are ripening. The latter taste like…hmm, bitter lettuce? Something vaguely familiar, but something we don’t commonly taste. Kind of horrid and kind of tantalizing.


They look just like perfect miniature plums, don’t they? I adore them.
My neighbor gave me a ton of plants today, so I got to putter in the yard for a few hours. I love sedges and grasses and I don’t love lawn grass, so that worked out well. We ripped out a few square feet of lawn and extended the planting area.

04.26.09
Fiddleheads and blossoms



Same ferns, fading light.
I took a little walk into our woods and saw this blossom suspended by a spider’s silk:


Here’s my pretty 4-inch posy: pacific madrone bark and cherry blossoms.

02.25.09
miniscules
I have a natural affinity for small things. I know this can tend toward the schlocky and cloying and cutsie, but I really can’t help myself. (And it may be balanced by my love of huge art installations.) I’ve been going through my 2008 photos, making an iphoto album for last year, and here are some images that still delight me:

These are sea shells I collected on the shore of the Red Sea in Egypt in 1996.

Fun-size cones. Perfect amount.

A. loves these tiny pine cones. So do I.