A Great Picture
Here’s a picture of my pretty and talented sister Kris in my meadow garden. Isn’t it awesome? Yes, I pressed the shutter release, but she set up the whole shot and told me exactly what to do and where to stand–and I think the end …
Author: Leslie Kimel
Super Baked Ziti
Today we made our famous baked ziti. Rob stayed up until 1:30 last night making the sauce. He’d watch TV for 15 minutes, then get up and stir it again. It cooked through two episodes of Jericho, an episode of 30 Rock, and Saturday Night …
Vegan Zucchini Bread
Last weekend we harvested two gigantic zucchinis (literally the size of bowling pins). They were so big we had to make a double batch of vegan zucchini bread and a huge vegetable curry (it fed us for days) in order to use them up. For the bread, we used a recipe from The Joy of Vegan Baking, the best vegan cookbook I know of. Here I am showing off a loaf in the meadow garden. Buy The Joy of Vegan Baking! The recipes are so good, even I can’t mess them up.
Pretty Friendly
I’m still hoping the staff at the water management district will use a picture or two of mine in their new brochure on Florida-friendly landscaping. So this weekend I spent a good deal of time crawling around with my camera, trying to document a few …
A Florida-Friendly Yard
The water management district is putting together a brochure on Florida-friendly landscaping (environmentally friendly landscaping). They were looking for pictures, so I sent in a bunch, including the ones below. I really hope I’m included. I would be so, so jazzed.
For Sophie
I thought Sophie would like to see what her cats, Tuxie and Feltie, looked like as tiny kittens:
Through the Needle Palm
Here’s how the house looks right now, through the needle palm in the bed along North Adams Street. Rob just repainted the front steps, and we’ve decorated the front porch with four big pots of fancy multi-colored caladiums. There’s a nest on top of one …
April Flowers
Despite the drought, the yard is still producing a bounty of flowers. Here’s a little peek at what’s blooming right now:
Purple coneflowers–so reliable and easy
The chestnut rose. This heirloom is pretty even when it isn’t blooming. It’s so dense and shrubby, a great place for birds to hide their nests.
Lizardtail in the pond
Petunias by the Vine House. Rob picked out the colors; I thought he did such a good job.
