When I drove into the Greenfield High School parking lot last Saturday morning at 10:30 the parking lot was already full. Fortunately, I saw a couple with full canvas shopping bags get in their car and drive away; I took their spot. When I walked into the school lobby it was clear Winterfare 2009 was in full swing with more local farms represented than I knew existed in our area. One of the largest booths…
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There is no end to the chores. We go through a lot of firewood so Rory helped the Major.But then it was off to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. We aren't allowed to take photos in the galleries, but the special big murals that Carle painted give a taste of the tissue paper he works with in his unique way. One exhibit was celebrating Carle's 80th birthday and the 40th Anniversary of The…
Rory has come to visit during school vacation and the chores begin. We found out the worms are not dead after all. At least not all of them, so we have to feed them eggshells to help reproduction, and squash flesh and seeds. If you look really closely you can see a couple of worms in their last meal. We also saw very very tiny worms, so I guess the eggshells work. We are not the only ones…
Again! Another 5 inches.
Ode to Tomatoes “come on! and, on the table, at the midpoint of summer, the tomato, star of earth, recurrent and fertile star, displays its convolutions, its canals, its remarkable amplitude and abundance, no pit, no husk, no leaves or thorns, the tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.” Ode to Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973 Nobel Prize winner) (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden) It seemed appropriate that a friend sent me this…
My jade plant has overwintered happily in our unheated Great Room for several years, but this past year the room did not maintain temperatures above freezing - and as you can see the plant suffered. However - when life is short, the instinct is to procreate! A few branches at the top of the plant are blooming. I will be able to start a new plant or two.
The state of my indoor plants, such as they are, makes me long for spring bulbs in the lawn. But alas the lawn is buried under deep snow, fresh snow, with more snow promised. The cyclamen is sprawly, but still going. This one a bowl of daffodils I potted up in November. I made the mistake of using a bag of mixed bulbs on the sale table at my local garden center. I will know if future to…
Tomorrow we are hosting the Heath Gourmet Club (27 years of serving ourselves) February dinner. Since it is Valentine's Day the theme had to be love. I sent out word that our entree will be chicken with citrus and amaretto - the amaretto supplying the love. I suggested that in addition to thinking of aphrodisiac foods which did at least once on an earlier Valentine's Day, there were many ways of thinking about food of love. They…
Tomorrow we are hosting the Heath Gourmet Club (27 years of serving ourselves) February dinner. Since it is Valentine's Day the theme had to be love. I sent out word that our entree will be chicken with citrus and amaretto - the amaretto supplying the love. I suggested that in addition to thinking of aphrodisiac foods which did at least once on an earlier Valentine's Day, there were many ways of thinking about food of love. They could…