Food for the Body | Gardening

State of the Garden

ByElizabeth August 8, 2014

Rhubarb

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Urban Wildlife
ByElizabeth March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

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In Which Ganesha Oversees the First Popsicles of the Season (Lemon-Strawberry)
ByElizabeth May 28, 2015

The strawberries were very nearly mashed into juice by the hot walk from the Penn Quarter Fresh Farm Market Home, but no matter. I had intended to make them into popsicles. I couldn’t resist the bouquet from one of the farmers.

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Found Quotation
ByElizabeth June 28, 2013June 28, 2013

Last week’s DOL elevator poster.

Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.

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Be Careful
ByElizabeth April 11, 2009April 11, 2009

what you wish for. Or at least enjoy it when you get it. I’ve been praying for rain. It was supposed to come yesterday afternoon, then last night. And it did not, and I worried about another storm passing to the northwest or southeast of us again. (We are, in fact, getting alot less rain from this storm than originally predicted).

Now, this morning, when it is time for me to walk the ten blocks to the metro to teach class at Willow Street, it is pouring. It has been so dry I am grateful for the rain. So I’ll have to dress right and enjoy the wetness for its nourishment and not whine about the cold, damp discomfort. Darn! Sometimes it is more fun to whine.

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New Leaves on Roses
ByElizabeth February 7, 2011February 7, 2011

As I enjoy the briefly warmish weather before it is cold again tomorrow, I delight in the very earliest signs of spring (check out the leaves starting on the rose bushes all around town) and remember why I love this city filled with gardens and flowers.

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Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary?
ByElizabeth May 20, 2009

Spotted in my backyard in the last month (in no particular order): carpenter bees (concentrated wintergreen oil spray works to get them out of the deck; no need to use chemicals), yellow jackets, wasps, mosquitoes, house flies, aphids, sparrows, pigeons, morning doves, starlings, cardinals, robin redbreasts, mocking birds, gnats, earthworms, cabbage butterflies, slugs. I have invited in praying mantis (hoping for the best). I choose to trap the rats and monitor for termites (or I would be seeing them). The ants are late this year.

Teeming with life or full of unwanted pests? It’s all a matter of perspective. What I do know is that the beings whose presence I welcome and enjoy would not be there if I just had a pesticide-laden chunk of concrete.

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