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  • These Days, “Conservatives” Aren’t.
    Jonah Goldberg:

    The market system is man-made, just as gardens are. But it is not the product of any individual will. It is a crowdsourced network of institutions, constructed over generations of trial and error, learned best practices, and the accumulation of common law and legislation alike. …

    It is only when someone tears down or batters these Chestertonian fences all around us that we discover those fences are there for a reason. … That’s where we are now. One man is singlehandedly taking a plow to the garden because he is confident that he knows better than, almost literally, everyone. And his defenders have few, if any, serious arguments in his defense beyond “trust him.”

  • Moonshot

    nighttime image of the moon through silhouetted tree branches

  • Pecans Leaf Later

    budding pecan branches against a gray sky

  • Spring, springing

    blue sky and spring-green leaves just appearing on a treea redbud tree in blooma bed of yellow daffodils in bloom

  • All Lined Up

    Tomatoes started from seed in the garage in January (under lights) went into the beds today. Fertilized, planted, staked, mulched, and watered. Twenty-one plants, six varieties. The game’s afoot, Watson!

    Tomato seedlings just planted and staked in raised beds in galvanized troughs.

  • Grateful

    I planted 200 of these suckers last November, and am so glad to see them coming up. God grew ‘em, not me. But I did participate in the project.

    bright yellow dafdodils Auto-generated description: A garden of vibrant yellow daffodils is blooming, surrounded by patches of soil and bordered by stone tiles.

  • To make a BLT, start (with) tomatoes

    Tomato seedlings in cell packs

    Check. 🌱

  • Garden Note

    January 18 2025: Started tomato seeds inside today.

  • The Winter Garden, Regents Park

    More from Spitalfields Life

  • Noice, Abe

    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.

    A small dog with curly fur stands on a patio next to an outdoor table and a large planter with flowers.

  • Foibles are Features

    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.

    Abigail Woolley Cutter

  • I Love Astertide

    Purple aster flowers

  • Leah Bayans:

    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)

  • Kräuterbuch - “Book of Herbs” | Johannes Hartlieb - 1462 1462 painting of a hosta plant

    Hosta [really?!] 🌱

  • Red & Ready / 🌱
    A container full of bright red tomatoes.

    The little ones that don’t look quite red are ‘Sungolds,’ which aren’t supposed to be red, but yellow. (Just sayin'.)

  • Slow Food
    Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato Sandwich in 3 parts.

    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

    a group of people on a blanket in a parkan old, gnarled live oak treemagnolia blossomhammocks beneath a tree in a parkLooking through a Japanese stone lantern in a parkKoi fish in a ponda light orange and pink rosepurple vitex treesa pink hibiscus blossomgreen bushes and a stormy skya fountain in a parka rabbit
    The Dallas Arboretum

  • An-TI-CI-PA-A-A-A-A-A-tion

    Unripe green tomatoes on the vine.

  • Triangle Bed, May Day

    Photo of yellow coreopsis flowers in a flower bed with grasses and other flowers.

    Coreopsis doing their thing; purple salvia spikes in the background.

  • Green

    an herb garden with sages and other herbs in various shades of green

  • Oak Leaf Hydrangea

    Oak Leaf Hydrangea blooming in a backyard .

    More sweet life.

  • First Fruits

    First yellow-orange cherry tomato ripening on the vine. 🌱
  • The Beginnings of Lunch

    From the garden:

    Salad greens laid out on a blue-and-white-checked towel.
  • Archie Daffodil

    dog in foreground with daffodils in the background
    📷

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