Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Our garden from hell is planted with good intentions and a whole bunch of other things we never intended to grow. An evil hosta lurks in the northwest corner. It points its giant spiky leaves at us and hisses a little when we try to sneak past. God know what henchmen scurry around underneath that [...]
Rising from an unlikely neighborhood, smack in the center of town, the St. Therese Community Garden stands as a fitting parable, a successful beautification project and an excellent source of good, clean food. Built in conjunction with Goodwill Grows, and spearheaded by chairperson Andy Somers, the 20-plot garden has completely transformed a sad, empty playground [...]
Our tour through our friends' garden left Molly and me speechless last night, mostly because we were chewing on all of the delicious goodies it produced. In a leafy neighborhood full of fat rabbits and determined hobby horticulturists, this box garden looked like the Taj Mahal. An electric fence surrounded wooden sections of gorgeous herbs, vegetables and fruits, including [...]