Monticello

"From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs." -another good one by T.J., who's birthday is today.
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Local

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Odd Melon

I don't know why my watermelon looks like a peanut.
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Bake Extra And Share

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Get Dirty

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Arboreal

"When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily." -Mary Oliver
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O'K

"That first summer I spent in New Mexico, I was a little surprised that there were so few flowers. There was no rain so the flowers didn't come. Bones were easy to find, so I began collecting bones." -Georgia O'Keefe.

Finally made it to the Georgia O'Keefe museum on Friday -- a wonderful space.

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I Live in a Desert

"Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth...in the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." -Margaret Atwood.

This little tomato plant is as close as I'm going to get this spring.

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Gourd Growth

Can someone please tell me how I planted watermelon seeds and got these:


In related news: "The American Gourd Society promotes interest in all activities relating to gourds: cultivation, historical uses, gourd show competition, craftwork, and artistic decoration." Who knew?! Maybe I should join.
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Let it Grow

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile, some have a sad expression, some are pensive and diffident, others again are plain, honest and upright." -Henry Ward Beecher.

Moral of this photo: always check what you're planting before you throw some bulbs in window boxes.

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Our First Tomato

"We would be happy if we studied nature more in natural things and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable." -William Penn

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Hello, Strawberries!

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress." -Charles Dickens
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Eat Up

"The only thing that really improves with age is your appreciation of food." -from an article in Gastronomica.

I'll say. Cooking is one of my favorite things to do now. Farmers' Market today!

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Tulips

"Earth laughs in flowers." -R.W. Emerson. Our front yard must think something is really funny.
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No Joke

"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." -T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922.

Whatever, April's bound to better than January, February or March.
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Happy Days

"Every gardner knows under the cloak of winter lies a miracle -- a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream." -Barbara Winkler.

Our blueberry plants are alive!

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