Little Gems, meet your new view, the mid-winter Portland cityscape. Today, under winter’s cloudy skies, but reasonably warm nonetheless (snowless, too; sorry, NY, DC, etc), I planted lettuce starts on the rooftop…the very same that I started a mere 25 days ago in my January 1st ritual seeding to augur in a good new year. Normally […]
Category Archives: Winter Work
Eye Candy, Hand Heavy
Caution when opening. Once you go in, you’re not coming out for a long time. The first sentence of the Whole Seed Catalog says, “It’s hard to believe that this is our 18th seed catalog….” Perhaps that is hard for them, but it’s harder for me to believe that this catalog has been out there […]
Dispatches from the Winter Garden
An apology: Something happened to this post whereby much of it got underlined and nearly deleted. At the risk of losing it entirely, I am keeping it as is. Sorry for the inconvenience of having to view everything as if it were a book title. Winter parsley is an exalted version of its already-awesome self. […]