Dirty Thoughts: A Gardening Life
Reveries of a Solitary Gardener
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Color in the Garden: A Bit of Provence
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In the world of color, we humans are Pavlovian dogs. Art, psychology, marketing: all (among others) have considered seriously the implicatio...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Devil Wears Red...and Really Well I might Add
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Who cannot but relish Meryl Streep's steely portrayal of the ‘holds-sway-over-life-and-death’ fashionista Miranda in The Devil Wears Pra...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
A Midsummer Day's Reality
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Shakespeare's comedic homage to the solstice, once derided by Samuel Pepys as "insipid" and "ridiculous," celebrates...
Monday, June 13, 2011
Color in the Garden: Pink
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I never wanted pink in the garden. Banishing pink was my original gardening activity--even before I had a garden. In 2009, Aunt Annie, my ...
Saturday, June 11, 2011
"Jet Set: Even the New Yorkers Couldn't Beat That"
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What do fashion and gardening have to do with one another? Well, one can answer this question in many different ways, but The New York Tim...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Blue Blood
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We humans are more than a bit silly, don't you think? In Houston, for instance, I was humored to discover that many an Asian woman do...
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Ice Cream Cones and Shame in the Garden of Eden
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I am not a fan of hot, humid summers. I melt. Living in an old house with only marginal insulation--and many an air leak--makes it all the ...
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