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Sunday music: Chris Smither

Finally, some music that might actually have something to do with gardening. In Origin of Species, Chris Smither starts off in the garden and later actually rhymes cabbage.

And here’s No More Love Today, (audio from New Hampshire Public Radio), a song inspired by the call of a New Orleans produce vendor. Be ready for a rhyme with okra. Graham will like this one more, as Smither does more with his feet.

Because in the end no one will sell you what you need.
You can’t buy it off the shelf. You got to grow it from the seed.

Ancient peppers front-paged in WaPo

Washington Post Friday, February 16, 2007; Page A01

Inhabitants of the New World had chili peppers and the makings of taco chips 6,100 years ago, according to new research that examined the bowl-scrapings of people sprinkled throughout Central America and the Amazon basin.

Upcoming questions on the research agenda — and this is not a joke — include: Did they have salsa? When did they get beer?

Read the rest …

Remembering summer 2006 (Part 1)

I rediscovered a bunch of images I’d taken and prepared for blogging last September, but never had time to put them online. The scenes came as quite a shock, now that I’ve gotten used to the snowy landscape. Will try to get the rest of the images — mostly vignettes of favorite plants and combos — over the next few weeks as we countdown to spring.

Click on pix for larger images.

View from the bathroom window, now under that curvy drift in the winter images.

Border and containers.

The container cluster, which is now the container stack in the winter images. Brugmansia, cannas, elephant ears, dahlias.

Expanded water garden, which finally froze over about 3 weeks ago. Hope the fishies are doing OK.

‘Half Dozen of the Other’ – With Snow

Ever since helping with Patrick Dougherty’s sculpture installation last fall, I couldn’t wait to see what it looks like in the snow. We finally got a storm. But I wasn’t able to get down to see the sculptures until noon. I suspect that they had shed some snow in the morning sun. But they still have a different atmosphere than they did in fall. Click images for larger view.

Approach

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Inside

Backside

Hot music on a cold night

Manu Chao performs live at the Prospect Park Bandshell, Brooklyn, summer 2006. Can’t wait until it’s hot again. Listen to a two-hour Manu Chao concert.