On Sunday afternoon, after braving the BART ride back to the airport to pick up our rental car, we stopped off at Golden Gate Park to visit the Japanese Tea Garden and the SF Botanical Gardens. Eric...
Blog posts from Garden
early morning farmer’s market run
It's spring again and that means another year of trying to score an heirloom sungold tomato plant from Craig and Susan LeHoullier. We got started too late last Saturday and by the time we arrived at...
Duke Gardens in the spring
Friday was beautiful here in NC- 80 degrees and sunny- so we headed over to the Duke Botanical Gardens in the afternoon. They have a number of raised beds filled with tulips in the spring and this...
February showers bring March flowers
The recent rainfall along with the warm temperature has brought most everything in our garden to life over the last few weeks, and we are fully in mid-spring in Durham. Some photos from the garden:...
The garden in November
Even with the drought we still have a few plants that have provided us some color late into November. For example, we planted hardy cyclamen several years ago, and they send up flowers every fall....
homegrown tomatoes and basil in November
Because we live in the South, I was able to harvest some basil (for pesto!) and cherry tomatoes this afternoon. I freeze the pesto so we have plenty through the winter and I munch the tomatoes as a...
Too early for Fall
August was a very hot month with the most sustained heat I've ever experienced. Several weeks of 90°F+ days (many of them 100°F+), low humidity, and only one short thunderstorm in the past 7 weeks...
our kitchen garden
We built the deck box in April and planted a few things. By May everything was looking really good and we were confident that the placement of the box next to the deck was the best spot in our yard...
garden photos for may and june
New photos from our backyard are now up! May June
More flowers for the garden
What can I say- it's almost impossible to ignore the flowers in the Farmer's market this time of year...
kitchen garden
Here's what the new raised garden looked like three weeks ago. Everything in our new deck box is doing fantastically well. The cherry tomato plant had fallen over while we were in Virginia, but...
our garden, version 2.007
Eric has been posting quite a few photos of our backyard here, but I'd like to continue the tradition of a separate garden page as well... so the one for this year is now up with photos from...
herbs and veg
The fear of frost has passed, so we picked up some herbs and a tomato plant at the Raleigh farmer's market on Saturday. We also planted the yellow bell pepper plants, mesclun and basil seeds. Water,...
Wilmington
For the first time in the 2.5 years we've lived in Durham, NC, we finally made the easy two hour drive down I-40 to Wilmington on Easter weekend. During our two day stay we saw everything on our...
More spring photos
Quick update on our garden - the daffodils are nearly done blooming, but the azaleas and dogwoods are in full bloom: Most of our perenials have sprouted or leafed out by now too. Among them we've...
Springtime pollen
The Southern springtime pollen deluge is upon us: This layer is from the last two days! Most of the visible pollen comes from oak and pine trees which I'm not highly allergic too (thank goodness)....
Duke Botanical Gardens
The two photos below are my favorites from a trip to the Duke Botanical Gardens last Saturday. tulip magnolia in full bloom. I'm hoping Leandra uses this crocus shot for one of her upcoming...
More springtime photos
I've been practicing with my 60mm macro lens and manual settings this week. Evidence follows: afternoon and morning shots, respectively. This one is a little soft, but the depth of field worked...
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Mosel Valley, Germany (Oct)
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San Diego (Jan)
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Northern Italy (Apr)
NC Mountains (May)
Long Island (Jul)
Wisconsin (Aug)
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Oak Island, NC (Sept)
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Castilla y León (Sep)
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