The LA Times has a photo spread today on the burgeoning roof garden at Blue on Blue. This is a really cool idea and I do sometimes have fantasies of a restaurant or cafe with fresh garden food from right outside the back door (but before I let that fantasy take up too much [...]

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Earlier this week I had what I, upon waking, immediately characterized as a nightmare.  In the dream I woke up and looked out my bedroom window to see a backyard lightly covered in white flecks.  Snow.   Overnight temperatures below freezing.  Somehow in the dream the front of the house and the back were different microclimates [...]

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I garden.  Those who know me personally may have noticed that I have a tendency to fall behind when walking or occasionally drift off during conversations outside.  When walking I get distracted by plants, wanting to know what they are.  When talking I get distracted by space, start fantasizing about how else it could be [...]

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