All around us: corn fields, the stalks dried out from the August sun. In between bouts of rain, the farmers…
While we preferred those fruits of our Random Garden most of all, we were able to flesh out our weekly…
Our cherry tomatoes surprised us this summer. It had stayed cool into June–not a surprise in Colares–but the days warmed…
We’re growing avocados. We have three viable plants, now holding their own in the Random Garden—the veritable highlight of our…
This morning I saw a squash blossom trumpeting its way through the tangled leaves of our Random Garden. Sigh. A…
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…