Mom's Day in Pennsylvania

Ethan and I spent Mother's Day weekend with his Mom and Grandma in Pennsylvania - two wonderful mom's! I did miss my mom and Grandma! 

I didn't have much time to take picture's of Anita's garden (Ethan's mom) but I did get a few shots in when I took the fur babies on a walk. Pictured above is Mica and her best friend for life, Chase, sitting patiently in the garden. I love the rosy paper-like bark peeling off the trees and the flowers are starting to splash the magical entryway garden with pinks and pastels. It's a fairy garden! 

blue curly dwarfs... smurfs?

Today marks the end of record rainfall for New York - yay!! I hauled my purchased bags of dirt to the backyard, gathered up my cigar box-o-seeds, broke in my new birthday gloves (thanks Mom!) and started some container plantings! I only planted in one container - dwarf blue curly kale (code for smurf food) and tomorrow morning I'll plant seeds in the remaining containers while the sun is out and warming up the dirt for the little seeds. 

Big thanks to the neighbors mom for giving us the containers! Coming up this week - planter boxes!!

seed a la frigidare

I spoke to the Kitazawa people today about my overly ambitious and seemingly novice seed purchase. I should really say over-purchase. The woman taking my call assured me that the seeds would keep for 2-3 years if stored in a cool dark place out of direct sunlight. You can even keep seeds in the fridge. 

Now I can keep my seed collection between the rice milk and the kale. Not at all unusual.

spring has sprung

This weekend has finally started to feel like spring!! We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge today for the first time. Just beautiful. I would like to go again with a gigantic sketchbook and draw all the cables that connect to the towers.

The Brooklyn bridge is the oldest suspension bridge in the United States. 

I came home after our walk and cleaned up the yard. Now that there is no snow on the ground and it's not raining, I can finally get out there to clean up the mess from winter neglect. (Courtesy of Mica and the snow -- it's amazing what hides under the snow for an entire winter: mystery garbage, I even found the remains of some kind of animal -- gross.) I removed the unsightly boards the last tenant erected to hang twine to create a rope web for the morning glories to climb. It looked really rustic and cute when it was in full bloom, but I think I can rig something for the climbing flowers without random boards being propped against the brick wall. It's looking better already!