All around us: corn fields, the stalks dried out from the August sun. In between bouts of rain, the farmers…
A man in full works the soil, and takes pleasure from transforming the land into a plot ready to nurture…
Our cherry tomatoes surprised us this summer. It had stayed cool into June–not a surprise in Colares–but the days warmed…
The tomato plants form an impenetrable fortress against the back wall of our garden, but they also line the sides…
We camped in woods filled with rosemary growing wild. We awoke to the bees rising in a buzz and wondered…
Nasturtiums bloom yellow and orange–almost red–under their spreading green umbrella shades, covering the piles of landscape clippings that otherwise just…