Today's Harvest

Meanwhile, Out in the Garden

Dueling Movie Quotes

From The Princess Bride: "He's not entirely dead, he's only mostly dead."

From Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "I'm not dead yet!"

Celebrate the Light

I have cleaned and swept the flagstones and gathered the greens that decorated the house at the Winter Solstice. There is amber ale chilled in the garage fridge. In a couple of hours I'll celebrate the Summer Solstice with a fire and a beverage and contemplate the last six months of my life. Now as the light lessens just a bit each day and summer marches on, I'll tend my garden of vegetables, the raspberry thicket, and the herb garden and delight in the gifts they offer. Blessed is the turning of the seasons. 

Join This Club

I have made a seriously major executive decision. From this point forward, whenever I am filling out some kind of form that requires me to indicate my race, I am going to answer with Human. Yes. Human. We are all humans no matter the color of our skin or what part of this Earth our ancestors hail from. Everyone still gets to claim a cultural and national background and celebrate all that is involved with that. Traditions, food, ceremonies, art, costumes, rites of passage. Since we're all in this together, let's make the best of it! So. What race are you? I'm a member of the Human race. Nice to meet you. 

Best Garden Tool Ever

No, this isn't the actual size of the thing. But sometimes when you swipe a photo it's not precisely what you want. Anyway. When you're old and creaky but still want to get things done out in the yard, be like me and get one of these. It's a place to sit in the position shown, but then you can flip it over and there's a cushy pad for you to kneel on! And the legs for the sitting function conveniently become supports so that you can get up and down more gracefully. Makes weeding and planting ever so much more manageable. And you still get dirty. Which is the fun part of yard work. 

Brief Intermission

Yes, I'm still here. Yes, I expect I will blog more frequently when the yard work and other crap slows down. Yes, I have missed all of you terribly. Keep checking back, children, eventually I will take an interesting photo or two or have something to say that doesn't slip right out of my brain before I get to the computer. See y'all later.