A fairly well know food blogger (up for a Saveur award this spring) posted a photo on Instagram the other day. There was a mason jar full of budding twigs with lobed leaves and dangling flowers. The caption read, ‘Just picked these honeys out back. No idea what they are!’ I took one look at [...]
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This week has been so full. Full of doing taxes and thinking about money. (Do I make enough? Do I want to make more? Can I make more?) Full of barbecue baking successes and failures. (Good muffins, bad bagels.) Full of running around doing errands I’ve put off for way too long (My driver’s license [...]
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honeybees on meadowfoam Happy birthday, Oregon! I do love you so. (I also really love food and flowers.) strawberry harvest Oregon Coast canning tomatoes hydrangeas in Yachats Lumos vineyard Mosaic Farms Gathering Together Farm sea anemones Jersey dairy cow summer roses endangered Fender’s blue butterfly heirloom tomatoes columbine in a Portland front yard bigleaf maple [...]
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First off, we don’t know what we’re doing. Secondly, THIS IS SO MUCH FUN! A few weeks back, Henry and I were standing around the kitchen, and maybe it was because I’d been reading too much Little House in the Big Woods to the kids or admiring archived posts on Amanda’s blog, but for some [...]
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Hoar is such an unpleasant word for such a beautiful thing. The weather finally broke today, and we got rain instead of the freezing fog that’s been hanging around for over a week. I think I’d prefer sunshine or real snow, but rain will have to be good enough. I don’t usually do link roundups [...]
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I’d never been to the Northern California coast before last week. Now I know what I’d been missing all those years. We stayed in Crescent City for the better part of a week, and I was continually impressed by both the town and the landscapes. The thing that I couldn’t get over is that the beach [...]
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‘Tis the season for mistletoe! Actually, mistletoe is evergreen, so it’s around all year, but no one seems to notice it until December rolls around. Henry brought home a giant pile of mistletoe the other day. He trims horses at a quarter horse ranch in Airlie that has a grove of oak trees on the [...]
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We live in the woods in an area that’s close enough to town that it doesn’t get hunted much. There are a lot of deer, rabbits, and smaller critters roaming these hills, and it’s a well known fact that there is quite a robust population of bobcats around, too. There have even been a few [...]
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Any day that starts with peaches is a good day. Early this morning, Henry and I went up to the greenhouse and picked the last of the peaches off our one peach tree. We still have two small nectarine trees in the greenhouse with fruit that hasn’t ripened up yet, so there will be more [...]
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One of our huge ceanothus bushes just finished blooming, and so I thought I’d tell you a little about Henry’s collection of ceanothus varieties. Ceanothus is the genus name for a group of nitrogen-fixing shrubs of various sizes. Many ceanothus varieties have been bred for their ornamental qualities, specifically their showy (usually) blue flowers. All [...]
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