Search results for: “garden”
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Diversions #3: Gardening, Remodeling a camper, Designing an addition
Diversions is the central hub for news about the membership, behind-the-scenes details of my personal projects, as well as a wide variety of links to people, places, and things that inspire me. Living this far north means that for a quarter of our year we seem to do much less outdoors. The warmer weather brings,…
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Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021
Yesterday, in the garden – May 7, 2021 All frames made yesterday at around 7am in the garden.
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Trees of Longwood Gardens – May 2018
SET: Trees of Longwood Gardens I love that every tree was marked with it’s name. And that nearly 90 year old Bonsai.
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Flowers of Longwood Gardens – May 2018
SET: Flowers of Longwood Gardens I have far too many images to put all into a single set. So I’ll be sharing multiple photosets. Longwood Gardens in early May is an explosion of bloom. I took hundreds of photos of flowers.
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Zach Leatherman’s garden
Zach Leatherman: As my own little corner of the web uncermoniously turned ten years old this year, it’s really starting to feel more like a garden than a piece of software. I certainly enjoy tending to it. I can plant what I like and with proper care it can grow into something useful. First, how…
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Gardening is a violent act
Harold Jenkins: I’ve long wanted to do a piece on the subject of gardening as violence. Gardening is an extremely violent act. To start a garden you must first kill whatever is already growing in the place you want to garden: cut down trees, tear out vines, rip up or smother sod. Then you break…
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Rooftop gardening in Bukchon, Seoul, South Korea
I’m totally jealous and inspired by this woman’s rooftop garden in South Korea. Simple, great use of space, economical, environmental.
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Our garden, so far
A quick and very, very dirty panoramic image of our garden so far (as of last week). Watch for a short video from Eliza in the near future. See also: Video: Our backyard, so far.
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Our first garden, preparation and planting
Eliza and I have, for as long as I can remember, always wanted a garden. While we’ve always had flower-boxes, pots, small sections of flowers next to our homes, etc. – we’ve never had a garden proper and so we’re excited that this will be our first year of gardening. We live in an apartment…
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Diversions #9: The garlic of March
The sun has returned! I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth’s tilt is such that as it revolves around the nearest star the portion on which I live (the northern hemisphere) is getting ever so slightly closer and faces…
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On the need to disrupt the structure of a blog
Chris Armstrong, advocating for a digital garden over a blog structure: A blog structure places the highest emphasis on ‘what’s new’… but what’s new has had the least scrutiny and little authority. Robin Rendle linked to Armstrong’s post recently and reading it reminded me of my 2011 post The blog format is ready for disruption.…
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As I mentioned in Diversions #5, I bought a pair of Crocs. It wasn’t long after purchasing that first pair that I bought a second pair to wear more casually in the garden, on the beach, or in mud – keeping the first pair nice for special occasions. Now I’m shopping for a third pair…
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“You should go to conferences” – Sophie Koonin
Sophie Koonin recommends attending conferences for personal and professional growth. I agree.
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Molly White on building the web we want
Molly White: Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it’s become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we loved about the old web while incorporating the wonderful things that have emerged since, developing even better things as we go forward, and…
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A few snaps with my phone while browsing a few local antique shops and garden center last weekend.
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I’m getting dangerously close to switching away from WordPress and onto Tuff – my personal static site generator. Like any well tended garden, I’ll need to pick weeds and cast seed, but the important bits are done.
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Humans, making things, and art
Kevin Kelly: Humans are born to make stuff. We almost can’t help it. Place us in an empty flat plain and we’ll start building things. Put us on a dried lake bed in the middle of the desert and we’ll build things, take them down and build different stuff next year. We make tools, which make other tools,…
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Spring 2022: I’m super busy at the day job, six active customers for the side gig, a freelance project that could start any day, a ton of personal projects that I’d love to spend time on, our garden!, and a (much needed) short vacation coming up.
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Merlot lettuce from the garden.
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A garden is the best anxiety med.
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2021 in review: blog and projects
I thought it would be fun to review what has happened this past year on my blog, what I had set out to do, and what I’ve accomplished. I’m hoping that by writing this post it will give me some clarity on what I may want to try to do in 2022. January In very…
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What I saw somewhat recently #86: September 11, 2021
I was recently able to jump on a train and photograph the Engineer. Look for that in my portfolio when I develop the film. Speaking of my photography portfolio, I’ve added several portraits including Max, Anthony, Zombie, and Bill. My goal is far more portraits moving forward. I’d love your feedback on them! You can…
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AirPods Pro observations
My wife recently gifted me a pair of AirPods Pro for our 22nd Anniversary which is coming up in a few days. She loves her AirPods. She has repeatedly said “these are my favorite Apple product ever” and she’s owned many products made by Apple including iPhones, Apple Watches, laptops, and iPads — all great…
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Here I am, in my jammies, appreciating how our garden beds are doing. Thanks @ajennische for starting this thread on your blog.
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What I saw somewhat recently #81: June 17, 2021
Saved this garter from the lawn mower A busy spring is coming to a close. A pool, garden beds, lawn care, work, side work, art, the gallery, photography and so much more going on all at once. But somehow it felt very balanced. I’m happy about that. Scratching every itch. This week I have a…
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Built 3 garden beds this weekend. We were able to move what we started in the mini-greenhouse into the ground. So far, this is what we have going. Tomatoes – 3 types Carrots Squash Green and Red peppers Cabbage Lettuce Red onion White onion Green beans Bunch of herbs Asparagus Strawberries Garlic Raspberries Oh, and…
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My current photo library management solution
In this post I’m going to detail out how I manage my photo library. I have changed my workflow countless times over the years and I have the deep battle scars to prove it. I’ve switched services, storage providers, apps, folder structures, metadata schemes, you-name-it. In 2018 I decided to set out on a sort…
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What I saw somewhat recently #64: April 30, 2020
Are you enjoying these links? I know I am. Light week. Mostly because I’ve been very busy both professionally and on my photography.
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Why I’m shooting with film
Nearly a decade ago Eliza and I began to make our own wine and beer. We started out making quick batches in buckets, carboys, or other small containers. It allowed us to get more familiar with the process of fermenting fruit or barley into one of our favorite drinks. Pressing grapes, 2013 Eventually we graduated…
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Observations on Oculus Go
At work we picked up an Oculus Go for research and development purposes. But of course I commandeered the device first to put it through its paces and I think I have a good enough feel for it to write up a few observations. These are, as always, in no particular order. Many of my…
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Epcot – March 2017
Epcot – March 2017 It was great to visit Epcot during the Flower & Garden Festival this year.
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Disappearing apps and services
Alexei Baboulevitch (archagon) in a comment on Hacker News: These indie apps are often marketed as beautiful, wholesome alternatives to grimy corporate or open source software, but how could I possibly rely on these products for essential tasks like note-taking if they’re just going to disappear out from under me in a few years? The…
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How will the world remember landmark design on the web?
Jason Santa Maria, on The Pastry Box Project: We talk all the time on our personal and periodical sites about the latest techniques for design, but how often do we break down new designs? I mean really discuss them, not just add them to a gallery of notable sites. Jason was moved to rethink about…
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Last pick of the season?
Overall a good season in our small garden. We’re trying to keep it small so that it doesn’t get to be too much to maintain. Next year I plan on the garden yielding about double what it did this year without making it any larger than it is.
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The liverwurst and onion sandwich
The sandwich is delicious but I have a feeling Eliza won’t be kissing me for a month.
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Our backyard, so far
Eliza and I have been hard at work on our backyard since spring. Whenever we get the chance, and energy, we work on our backyard to spruce it up and make it a nice place to get outside. So far we’ve put in a stone patio, planted grass, put in a fire pit, planted a…
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The “What To Do When You’re Bored” list
I can honestly say that I cannot remember a time when I was actually bored. I’ve heard many people say that they get bored, especially younger people, and it baffles me. Isn’t the world filled with more than enough things to do to save us from boredom? I thought I’d take the time to jot…
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Since the garden is beginning to bear produce I’m beginning to pull together recipes that I’ll need. Zucchini bread via Marisa McClellan and Zucchini Breakfast Casserole via Simply Recipes are two of those recipes.