Saturday, March 1st
Days of warmth and general sense of life on its way back. Aura of spring. The way the light falls, liquid-looking. Have so looked forward to end of monochromatic days. Continue reading
Nature
In the January Greenhouse
We’re having a stretch of frozen nights and nearly-frozen days this week. While I derive a certain amount of comfort from news stories of stranded air travelers and lake effect snow – “up to six feet expected in Buffalo” – this is winter enough for me. Continue reading
Here’s the Thing
Here’s the thing about the weather right now: I can’t keep up. We spend the months between July and October locked in to a pattern of hot, hot, hot, sun, sun, sun, hot, hot, hot. We become accustomed to a simple, if occasionally tedious, reality. Then the winds start to shuffle stuff around, and we can hardly figure out what to wear when we head out the door. Continue reading
Why We Live Here
Our house stands in a remote corner of a housing development that bills itself as our fair city’s “First Environmentally Planned Community.” On my crabbiest days I have asserted that its environmental planning is limited to privacy fences and only the blandest exterior paint colors, but now that rain barrels and metal roofs are appearing in impressive numbers, I’m often able to turn my attention to some of the ‘hood’s positive aspects. Continue reading
Some of the Grasses
Forty years ago and more, I read a line in James Beard’s classic American Cookery that was very permission giving. “I loathe divinity,” it said. Continue reading
Joshua Tree
It’s hard to believe it’s almost a year now since we went to Joshua Tree.
