Hey, look at all the clay about 4 feet underground!

We're only a few blocks from the Mad River...


...past the cow pasture.

Being uphill from the river probably 50 feet above sea level, the land here must have been part of a seismic shifting, leaving behind this great clay and a new path for the river.

Bloom Day, January 15, 2009

Bloom Day basket full of blossoms and buds.

Mustard greens?

I want to high five these favas.

Chopped the stalks yesterday and just look what was growing!
Fresh young fennel.

Thriving patch of wintergreen mint.

Rosemary

Borage

Calendula

New front yard solution: raspberry arc, with a hay bale windbreak. Never mowed, never will.

He just figured out he can climb this Japanese red plum tree.


Note impossible to distinguish stalks of wild rose, curly willow, a poplar and hedging. And we're kittysitting. To the right mostly out of sight is a row that has had every single plant eaten by gophers. Garlic, fava beans, sunflowers. Potatoes are the latest offering.