This is a pic taken of sunset a few days ago. I thought it was pretty. The next pic is my newest plant project. I removed a couple of lobes from the prickly pear cactus, have let the cut end dry out well, and yesterday planted them in a mix of perlite, gravel, and planting…
Category: Doodads
Doodads — Cherry Point Market and Little Sable Point/Silver Lake (video at end of post)
I could have and probably should have taken a bike ride today as it was so beautiful out there, although things are cooling down. Instead, I took at drive north, to Cherry Point Farm and Market, the place that has both of those things and includes the “labyrinth” I’ve written about before. I bought honey…
Doodads — tomato, prickly pear propagation, fermenting, witch hazel, oh my
There are still pics from Tuesday at fmg but they will have to wait. Instead, the focus of this post will be tomatoes, prickly pear propagation, more fermentation, and status of the witch hazel bushes. Tomatoes It’s been an ongoing experiment with the purple reign tomatoes. The reviews that said they produced dwarf tomatoes is…
Doodads fmg
We met up at fmg on Tuesday, as we have all summer. We headed back to the recreation of the farm from Lena’s childhood and planned on taking a back route over to the Japanese Garden, but there was work going on in that area, so it was gated off. Instead we took a boardwalk…
Doodads over past (busy) week
On Monday, a group of 8 of us, 6 adults and 2 kids, drove out to the farmer’s market I frequent, where a playground and farm animal petting area has been added over the summer. The playground included a giant tractor tire that has been made into a sandbox, with included farm equipment trucks to…
Doodads — GRPublicMuseum and yard pics
Instead of going to Meijer Gardens this past week we went to the Grand Rapids Public Museum. We only had 1.5 hours in there so a limited # of pics. Learn more about uranium glass here. The weather has been gorgeous. Here are some pics from around the yard.
(update with Democracy Now! video) Doodads — graffiti and new flora
On the bike ride on Wednesday I took some pics of the graffiti in the tunnel we rode in under the highway. Interested in knowing how you feel about graffiti. Art? Vandalism? Both? I also found a couple of unidentified flora in the yard. The arrowwood berries are enjoyed by critters and are also edible…
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