Fifty-Something Fashion Sense: A Socks-and-Sandals Guy
My kind of hipster: socks and sandalsAs I set down my morning coffee in disbelief, the ugly truth came to light. There on my...
Homegrown Video: How Does My Garden Grow?
Homegrown Video and What's in my GardenKale starts, two months later you did me proud.
Having discovered the video setting on my point-and-shoot camera, has...
Snapshot: My Favorite Face of Summer
“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered...
Lazy Days of Summer: A Progress Report
Chubby peach cheeks: I picked a bumper crop of three peaches from my Avalon Pride tree--delicious all!
Don't laugh, but today we will likely...
Keeping Up With My Favorite Octogenarian
Cutting the rug (make that the pavement) with my Mom at Vashon's Strawberry Festival Street Dance
I'm a proud on-the-precipice-of-geezerhood, optimistic 55-year who can seize...
Lawn to Meadow: Gardening on the Wild Side
Lawn to Meadow: A Lovely TransitionLeft to their own devices, scattered foxglove seeds will stage a powerfully pink floor show and reseed for years...
Lavender Sisters Harvest Some Fine Friendships
Meet the Lavender SistersRelated in spirit: Lavender Sisters Katy Jo, Merrilee, and Dana cultivate magic.
If Vashon Island ever needed a trio of fairy godmothers,...
Pickled Sweet Cherries…Who Would Have Thunk?
I shall take no credit for the inspiration of pickling sweet cherries. My friend Julie brought the possibility to my attention in a Facebook...
A Front Porch Fourth of July
The Fourth of July crept in this morning under a layer of clouds thin enough to be dismissed by an eager sunrise. While the...
Summertime and the Pittin’ is Easy: A Better Way to Pit Cherries
An inexpensive tool and better way to pit cherries
Did you know that Washington state grows more cherries than any other state? Yep, this is...
