This Kitchen’s Best Carrot Salad Recipe
As far as salads go, my favorites are the ones with little or no lettuce. (Hear me out.) I think I've had one too many plates...
Stoop With a View: Good Morning Bluebells
Beautiful backyard bluebells
My back stoop covers just about enough space to provide resting and reading room for one husky guy and two beefy bulldogs (given the pups opt...
Daffodils: How to Encourage Next Year’s Blooms
In late winter, drifts of daffodils punctuate my property like streams of sunshine. They are a welcomed sight and a needed reminder that better weather is...
An Apple Named Opal, A Dog Named Boz
As I coasted down the steep hill to the Pt. Defiance ferry dock, actively praying that I would make the boat, the security gate which separates...
Confessions of a Reluctant Beekeeper
Bees are magic made visible. From my first barefoot encounter in a clover patch, to the eye-level flybys among the ligustrum, to their temporary confines in a...
Makah Ozette Potato: Hash Browns With a History
Plants that taste good have legs (and in some cases wings). If they strike our palate's fancy, the world becomes their oyster (or serving dish...
Sweet Meat Squash: Stores Well, Tastes Great
If I only had one culinary pumpkin or winter squash to grow, Sweet Meat would be it.
For some varieties, beauty is only skin deep. Their color,...
Daffodils: D is for Deer Proof
Deer proof is a designation that I usually find laughable. I suspect that given the chance, deer would dine on blue tarps and roof shingles. If these beasts...
Houseplant Clivia: Tough as Nails, Pretty to Boot
About this time every year, I look at my sickly menagerie of houseplants and wonder why I bother. The leaves of my streptocarpus have...
Trumpet & Oriental Lilies: Perfection in Bloom
Lilies Are the Whole Flower Package: Beauty, Fragrance and Strength
The phrase to gild the lily says it all. Why would anyone attempt to improve or adorn something that...
