Still Raining (damn it)

31 May 2010

Yup, it’s still rain­ing. Three bloody weeks of the driz­zle falling down my neck. I took advan­tage of a half hour break last week­end and went for a lit­tle ram­ble about the place. Here are some pics. The red­bud is finally bloom­ing and has a few ten­der look­ing leaves. (And some of these shots are silly and arty.) […]

Tagged as: cilantro, deer trail, honeysuckle, hot tub, iris, lilac, redbud, vine maple

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Another nice Saturday in May

15 May 2010

Tagged as: maple, peonies

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The optimism of a nice weekend in May.

8 May 2010

It is the first nice wek­end in May and like all Seat­tlites I am doing all sorts of get­ting ready for sum­mer things out­side. We have an entire week of Sunny days for­cast so it’s time to start hav­ing tea on the porch in the morn­ing. I’m still pleased with the new cush­ions I made […]

Tagged as: BBQ, laundry, porch, sunshine

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Gardening Report — March 14

16 March 2010

Last week­end the front bed with the cedars in it got new shrubs. Con­tin­u­ing the theme of happy flow­er­ing shrubs and brood­ing conifers that we started with the cedars and the (now gone) bud­dleias we’ve added more happy and more brood­ing. the weep­ing cedar bed got shrubs Start­ing with the happy, a flow­er­ing cur­rant. I’ve […]

Tagged as: Chaenomeles, Chamaecyparis, cornus, currant, dogwood, juniper, juniperus, quince, ribes, taxus, thuja, whipcord, yew

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Gardening at the End of February

1 March 2010

It was a busy gar­den week­end here at Black Dog Farm. We started with a trip to Mol­baks to take advan­tage of their 30% off bare-root and b&b trees and shrubs. We started with some­thing to go in front of the three cedars. The early white blooms of this mag­no­lia shrub will lighten up the […]

Tagged as: hellebore, iris, lenten rose, magnolia, mint, peony, redbud, reticulated iris, spirea, tulips

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First Garden Report

25 February 2010

Last fall we dug up and divided a lot of over­grown plants. Among them a patch of iris so thick that it took a tree saw to hack it apart. All eight sec­tions have begun to grown nicely. I’m not sure how much bloom we’ll get this year. They’re going to look great at the back […]

Tagged as: garden, irises

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Meanwhile… …Back at the Ranch

16 November 2009

I’ve been work­ing on updates and upgrades and all around tidy­ing to the web sties. It is unset­tling to know that of all the infor­ma­tion pro­vided on all my sites and blogs. The thing peo­ple most want to know about and to look at are: the chicken pic­tures… sigh.

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Day 10 — in which there are pots and metal creatures

2 November 2009

Most of the day was spent in San Bar­tolo Coy­ote­pec. Our first stop was at the work­shop of the fam­ily of pot­ter Dona Rosa. The Dona Rosa invented the bur­nish­ing tech­nique that pro­duces the glossy black pot­tery that the vil­lage has become known for. Her son don Valente con­tin­ues the tra­di­tion. Here are three pots […]

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Day 9, in which there is a lot of thread(s)

31 October 2009

Today is the Hal­loween for most of you all. Here in Mex­ico it is the day before Muer­tos. There’s lots of get­ting ready and clean­ing and arrang­ing going on. We were out and about doing tourista things this morn­ing. Our des­ti­na­tion was Teoti­t­lan de Valle, home to the most famous of the Zapotec weavers. We started […]

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Day 8, in which there was one very big tree and a lot of little stones.

30 October 2009

Today is Fri­day, we must be headed for Mitla and ‘the tree’!. Our first stop is in Santa Maria del Tule, to see a huge, sev­eral thou­sand year old tree. In the cen­ter of the town. Pretty amaz­ing. The red­woods are taller, but this honker is huge at the trunk! Play­ing ‘name that crea­ture’ is an […]

Tagged as: mitla, mosaic, tule

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