Check. 🌱
January 18 2025: Started tomato seeds inside today.
Hard to imagine a sweeter time than the Sunday afternoon between Christmas and New Year listening to “My Bar’s Jukebox” and enjoying local IPAs in the backyard on a sunny 67(F)-degree day with my associate.
As impersonal systems play increasing roles in information-gathering and decision-making, the personal element can be summed up as “human error.” … [T]hen of course the fields concerned with human nature—specifically, all the ways it is not predictable—are unseated, too…
[I]t is simply better to be a human when a personal God is at the heart of the universe. Human lives are easier to defend. Human joys have cosmic significance. Human foibles are “a feature, not a bug.” Human creativity is more arresting. Human language can be savored. Human stories must be told.
When I first sat with Wendell [Berry] to talk about educating farmers as farmers, he started by turning to the idea of love—in the fullness of the term, not sentimentalized but fully rounded, with the joyful and the difficult joined through membership in a place and with its people.
He then asked a question that I try to answer every day: what works does this love propose?
Start with love, then see what works that love proposes. (H/T: @ayjay)
Hosta [really?!] 🌱
The little ones that don’t look quite red are ‘Sungolds,’ which aren’t supposed to be red, but yellow. (Just sayin'.)
I started making ths BLT a bit less than six months ago. (At least the “T”.)
I hear you, but don't see you
Late May at the Arboretum
An-TI-CI-PA-A-A-A-A-A-tion
Triangle Bed, May Day
Coreopsis doing their thing; purple salvia spikes in the background.
Green
Oak Leaf Hydrangea
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More sweet life.
First Fruits
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From the garden:
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One of the benefits of gardening in the South. January 27: tomatoes are sprouting and onions are planted.
