Tag: Gardening
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Icehouse Landscaping Update, End of May
Sooo much progress as we hustle the icehouse rehab toward its conclusion in these final days of May…
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Asparagus Officinalis
Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis) is an early season perennial vegetable that pops out of Rosslyn’s still chilly soil sometime in May. Each year it is a harbinger of spring, arriving at just the right time to reassure us that the long Adirondack winter is retreating; that mud season is mostly past tense; and a happy, holistic gardening season is underway. Rosslyn’s asparagus bed was one of the very…
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Arborvitae Planted
Another threshold today: the arborvitae have been planted along the south border of the icehouse courtyard. These eight 4’ to 5’ tall evergreens will grow into a hedge over the coming years, layering a living screen in front of the privacy fence that encloses the mechanicals located west of the carriage barn. This combination of…
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Imperfection
Today I offer you a scrapbook meditation on imperfection not only as inevitable but also as appealing and valuable. And for habitués, you won’t be surprised by my mind meandering into the humbling wonders of wabi-sabi. The imperfect moments shape us as much as the sunny ones. (Source: Frosty Ferrying into Rosslyn) With May showers flirting,…
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Asparagus Sunup to Sundown
Eureka! Or, better yet… Spargelzeit! Join me in celebrating asparagus time, one of my favorite highlights of the seasonal culinary calendar. For a month or two our asparagus cravings are sated sunup to sundown. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Why so obsessive? Because the season is short. Because these delicate shoots look like and taste like the quintessence of…
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A Few Friday Updates
It’s been a productive week at Rosslyn. I tip my hat to Glen, Tony, Pam, Peter, Supi, and Steve for leaning in to the multiple tasks at hand. I’d like to share with you a quick photo essay showcasing a few Friday updates. What a difference one week makes! Now it’s time to unwind and…
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Hummingbird Haiku
Perhaps hummingbirds offer us a fleeting reminder to welcome the wisdom of wonder? To wander wider? To pursue a nonlinear path, to be unimpeded by obstacles, to bound between ambrosial blossoms?
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Life is a Garden
This time of year, especially on weekends, my mind melds with moist soil, with the earliest hints of life, the first hint of bud burst, earliest spring blossoms, seed sorting, plant plotting, spring start coddling,… Seasonal synapses begin to fire. I start to count weeks and days working backwards from probable last frost. And I…
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Crocus Time
Crocus are among the most notable and predictable harbingers of springtime, sometimes beginning to poke their delicate green shoots up in the late winter. Considered by some to be symbols of rebirth, youth, and happiness, crocus are the quintessence of the Adirondack shift from inhospitable winter growing conditions to more temperate times when cultivating blooms…
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Daffodil Season
Such splendid springtime erupting alongside lawns and fields, kindling confidence that summer soon will bloom. Daffodil season revitalizes hope, tickles love and levity strained by months of cold, bloomless winter. Daffodil Season Spring’s proof positivelifts last year’s leaves, matted grass,and summer spirits. Would be wonderful to wax wise about daffodil season, to offer some fresh…
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Complaints: Top 5
What do you complain about the most? Such a mysterious adventure story, this thing we call life. Plot twists around every corner. Characters waxing and waning. Textures tangling and untangling, melodies braiding and unbraiding, hues shifting and sifting so subtly we wonder if we’re imagining it,… A mesmerizing mystery so pure, so pulchritudinous as to…
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Dream Job
What’s your dream job? Saturday, a day for job dreaming, right? Or telemark skiing… That’s how I spent my day. But now it’s time to wax wordy about my dream job. Jobs? Hybrid job? A dream job spanning diverse occupations, vertically dissimilar vocations. Let’s start with a few of the more obvious ingredients for my…