Posts Tagged ‘green’
ferns
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, Uncategorized, tagged beauty, ferns, green, Inspiration, landscape, nature, Photography on June 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »
the fig leaf
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged family, figs, green, Inspiration, leaves, nature, Photography, tea, trees on October 19, 2016| 1 Comment »
I finally found the leaf, curled but not crumbled, at the bottom of a bag. It survived the trip from South Carolina through three states before returning to Massachusetts. It came from a tree in my uncle’s yard originally planted by his wife. One day at the kitchen table she mentioned making a cup of fig tea. I’d never heard of such a thing.
She pointed to the tree outside, wide canopied with dark flat leaves, and said it was too bad we hadn’t been visiting when the branches had been weighted down with fruit and the birds were all about. She sometimes made a jam, she said, but this year she just pulled off some leaves to dry and make tea. As I snapped off my leaf, I promised to photograph it as it dried and then its final journey into tea. She laughed.
I think this leaf has a bit more drying to do and until then makes a fun photographic subject.
green
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged cuban oregano, food, green, herbs, Inspiration, light, Photography on August 29, 2016| 1 Comment »
like the sun
Posted in Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged buttercup, colors, flowers, green, Inspiration, nature, Photography, ranunculus, urban landscape, yellow on June 6, 2016| 2 Comments »
down
Posted in Branches, Nature Notes, tagged Boston Public Garden, green, Inspiration, nature, Photography, trees, urban landscape, willow on May 25, 2016| 3 Comments »
Just light raining down through the leaves of a willow tree in the Boston Public Garden.
up
Posted in Branches, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged green, Inspiration, light, nature, Photography, urban landscape on May 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »
One of the cool things about waiting for the street light to change in the city of Boston is that you get to pause and look up and all around, and sometimes you see the sunlight fall in special ways, like on this ivy climbing the walls of a church tower.
a wonderful chaos
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, cooking, food, food photography, gardening, green, herbs, indoor gardening, Inspiration, joy, peas, Photography on April 12, 2016| 2 Comments »
pea tendrils
My indoor garden is in a bit of disarray. The nasturtium grew poorly in terms of foliage but continues to find strength to bloom. I’ve got peas in three little pots, their tendrils reaching for the sun. I need to decide soon if I will snip their tender tops to eat (the original intention) or let them grow tall and strong and possibly produce pods!
radish, nasturtium, and red kale greens
The radish are doing well … but I planted too many seeds and so now I have radish greens growing everywhere. Some of those little pots are designated as future salad greens, but I did find a few strong plants to put in one bigger pot. We’ll see if I can actually grow radishes indoors. I was very successful growing potatoes indoors. They were marble-sized but that doesn’t really matter. 😉
sage
The herbs are so far doing well. I’m looking forward to the chef in my life roasting some baby potatoes on a bed of sage and maybe doing something with grilled cheese and fresh basil.
As wonderfully disorganized as everything is … I’ve got tarragon growing in a bathroom and rosemary in a bedroom … I cannot help but find joy in this garden and in the knowledge that the growing season has only just begun.
