Today's photo — after astonishing rains, with more on the way — is inspired by the song "Hang On Little Tomato" by Pink Martini: The sun has left and forgotten me It's dark, I cannot see Why does this rain pour down I'm gonna drown In a sea Of deep confusion...
There is a part of me that has always craved old-fashioned American goodness. I could watch endless marathons of Lassie and Leave It to Beaver. I love mid-century style, movies like It's a Wonderful Life, and songs like "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive." I am trying to...
Greetings from my air-conditioned bunker as summer 2007 clatters apart overhead like an unbalanced engine. Amy's at work, I'm on hiatus, and out in the backyard the heat and humidity are mounting over the soggy vegetation — a prelude to an afternoon forecast of...
As detailed here in the past, we'd like to keep our yard organic and hopping with life — food plants, flowers, birds, butterflies, earthworms, shrubs, trees. We're not using chemical fertilizers, weed killers, or pesticides. We are using compost, cow manure,...