I've already torn down
much of my summer garden — the strange, inside - out summer weather that began in June continued well into September (which turned ridiculously July - hot for days on end), and the confused plants didn't know which way was up.
Not exact matches
With the first frost claiming
much of my produce earlier this week, I was happy to still be able to use my own watermelon and mint in the salad; alas I have no more homegrown cucumbers, but this is a great salad and I'll definitely make it again next
summer when I've got lots growing in my
garden.
Sometimes it feels like everyone goes on and on about all
of the amazing
summer vegetables that they're picking from their
gardens and when fall gets here all
of the colorful, flavorful fall vegetables don't get nearly as
much attention as they deserve.
I suspect that this is a
much different experience when the sculptures are surrounded by the lush
gardens of spring and
summer.
He was interested enough to have grown specimens
of loosestrife in his
garden, and to have spent
much of the
summers of 1862 and 1863 snipping stamens, «castrating» the plants to use his unsettling terminology, and meticulously hand - fertilizing them with camel - hair brushes.
Eat as
much as you want
of these veggies, any time: artichoke, arugula, asparagus, bell peppers, bok choy, broccoli, broccoli rabe, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, Chinese cabbage, collard greens, cucumber, daikon, eggplant, fennel,
garden cress, green beans, jicama, kale, kohlrabi, komatsuna (Japanese mustard spinach), leeks, lettuces, mizuna, mushrooms, mustard greens, onions, radishes, spinach, tomatoes, yellow
summer squash, watercress, zucchini
These images embody so
much of what I love about August... the crisp bay breeze, sleepy sunflowers in every
garden, and the hazy sun, seemingly tired from blazing all
summer long.
I'm also planning to take a trip to the lovely fruit section
of our local
garden centre over the weekend to try and find the doughnut / flat / saturn peaches I loved so
much last
summer...
That movie represents a
much more explicit look at the concept
of molding a woman in your image
of what you want her to be, positioning itself as a rebellion against the manic pixie dream girl tendencies
of films like (500) Days
of Summer or
Garden State, often the result
of lazy writing that had a tendency to treat women simply as a formula to complete the man's desires.
As I participated in the National Writing Project's Making Learning Connected #clmooc and the Tar River Writing Project's Connected Learning Institute this
summer I realized that the 2013 Legacy
Garden project, and
much of my teaching practice, is connected learning.
As the Curatorial Fellow in the Visual Arts Department, I have had the opportunity to enjoy the
gardens and gallery at Wave Hill during the changing seasons from
summer to fall and now to winter (though
of late it has felt
much more like spring than the frigid temperatures we're used to).
Much of the value - added ambiance comes from the great outdoors: the moonlit night, gentle breeze and
summer garden.