Continue reading “Garden Plans – Up Date”The site 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.
Garden Plans – Up Date
Fishing Village in Vietnam – (and how to choose a fresh fish)
It’s the seagulls that alert me. When there’s a swarm of them close to shore, I know what’s arriving in my home port in Lyttelton, New Zealand. They fight and cackle and I stand at my window watching fishermen off load their catch …
… or I used to.
Seeds of Change
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.
Salt Pans Vietnam
Continue reading “Salt Pans Vietnam”Daily I season my meals with it
But, when food comes in packages, it’s easy to be ignorant and disconnected from its source.
Foraging for Compost
Continue reading “Foraging for Compost”Growing a garden requires planning for a future by responding to the conditions of the present.
Gardening as Art
Continue reading “Gardening as Art”Viewing rice terraces in the northern mountains of Vietnam is like being in an enormous outdoor exhibition space.
What will become of this city?
Continue reading “What will become of this city?”A collection of A4 prints on Canson® Infinity Rag Photographique.
Seeing photos in good quality print is a completely different experience from seeing them on screen.
Fiddlesticks and Fiddleheads
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.
