It is the first nice wekend in May and like all Seattlites I am doing all sorts of getting ready for summer things outside. We have an entire week of Sunny days forcast so it’s time to start having tea …
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Gardening Report — March 14
Last weekend the front bed with the cedars in it got new shrubs. Continuing the theme of happy flowering shrubs and brooding conifers that we started with the cedars and the (now gone) buddleias we’ve added more happy and more …
Read MoreGardening at the End of February
It was a busy garden weekend here at Black Dog Farm. We started with a trip to Molbaks to take advantage of their 30% off bare-root and b&b trees and shrubs. We started with something to go in front of …
Read MoreFirst Garden Report
Last fall we dug up and divided a lot of overgrown plants. Among them a patch of iris so thick that it took a tree saw to hack it apart. All eight sections have begun to grown nicely. I’m not sure …
Read MoreMeanwhile… …Back at the Ranch
I’ve been working on updates and upgrades and all around tidying to the web sties. It is unsettling to know that of all the information provided on all my sites and blogs. The thing people most want to know about and …
Read MoreDay 10 — in which there are pots and metal creatures
Most of the day was spent in San Bartolo Coyotepec. Our first stop was at the workshop of the family of potter Dona Rosa. The Dona Rosa invented the burnishing technique that produces the glossy black pottery that the village …
Read MoreDay 9, in which there is a lot of thread(s)
Today is the Halloween for most of you all. Here in Mexico it is the day before Muertos. There’s lots of getting ready and cleaning and arranging going on. We were out and about doing tourista things this morning. Our destination …
Read MoreDay 8, in which there was one very big tree and a lot of little stones.
Today is Friday, we must be headed for Mitla and ‘the tree’!. Our first stop is in Santa Maria del Tule, to see a huge, several thousand year old tree. In the center of the town. Pretty amazing. The redwoods …
Read MoreDay 7, in which we watched a man pull a rabbit out of a tree trunk.
To day it was south and a little west of town to the Zaachila valley. Traffic has been terrible this week so our guide Nico took us down a super-secret short-cut. Like going down the rabbit hole. Speaking of rabbits. Our …
Read MoreDay 6, in which we went to the market
Today began with a trip to the Abastos market, near the south edge of the central district of oaxaca. Today was the opening of the special ‘Muertos’ section of the market, full of special flowers, candles, trinkets and food for …
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