Highlights in photography. Joy in gardening. Optimism in an imperfect sustainable life.
Continue reading “Street Photography – Plant Portraits”People are the focus of most of my photography – either candid portraits or on the street.
But my walks have been solitary so I’ve had to stalk a different kind of subject.
Continue reading “Garden Plans – Up Date”The architect sketch for the garden is on the left. Tame, easy care … boring. My ideas and scribbles are on the right – no instant lawn and easy care planting for me.
Continue reading “Seeds of Change”This virus has turned the world upside down.
I’m hoping, in time, we’ll be able to blame it for some really positive sustainable and environmental changes.
Continue reading “Foraging for Compost”Growing a garden requires planning for a future by responding to the conditions of the present.
Continue reading “Gardening as Art”Viewing rice terraces in the northern mountains of Vietnam is like being in an enormous outdoor exhibition space.
Continue reading “Fiddlesticks and Fiddleheads”I imagine holding a fiddlehead in my hand – it’s light and fragile but weighty with comfort. At the moment we’ve been called to return to our homes, to seek safety within the fold but, in time, we will emerge into a new
beginningnormal.
Continue reading “The Lonely Fly”Then the silence would be broken …
And the gymnastics and shouting begin
Continue reading “Garden Progress”When I’m feeling that it’s all too hard and the garden still looks scrappy, I get my photos out to remember how far we’ve come.
