Thursday, 7 July 2011
Yeah, and the script needs LOTs of work.
I don’t think I can explain this; in part it arose from watching James Cameron and JJ Abrams discussing movies and directing with honoree Stephen Spielberg, a DGA presentation.
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Note the sleepy insect pretending to be…a blemish?
Our most productive plant right now is the Thai basil. I’ve been raiding it at least twice a week (with a heavy hand), and it continues to get ahead of me. But, wow-ee, we are enjoying it in curries, with lots of veggies and rice. Mmmm.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Our volunteer yellow pear tomatoes are way ahead of the expensive greenhouse specimen that’s gotten special soil pampering, etc. In fact, I’ve eaten two of the sweet teardrop-globes already!
Sunday, 3 July 2011
Louise Erdrich sucked me in. Yesterday I would have told you that maybe by Tues or Wed I would finish Louise Erdrich’s The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003). Turned out I finished it before dark today. Strange, enticing characters, none out of the stereotype box.
And very little on the singing club.
Friday, 1 July 2011
I despaired too early; the bees worked their magic! (Never mind that the pepper is the size of the last joint of my thumb.)
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
I’m hopeful again. I found a perfect bloom on one pepper plant!
Page One, the documentary about the NYTimes and new media, etc.…
Opening nationwide on Friday. Worth your time.
However, the discussants we heard tonight after the movie did not grasp the crucial issue of how Internet news consumers are to tell if what is out there to be read is true, partly true, totally agenda-driven—where the content is along that continuum.
I proposed to my audience of one that perhaps True Journalists could get a seal or special flag like your bank has for online transactions. Opens a can of worms, of course, but it’s better than the panel’s answer: consumers will need to be discerning.
Not. An. Answer.
Even if that’s the way it plays out, it’s not a good scenario.
Monday, 27 June 2011
I think this is Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata). This specimen is sure productive early in the summer season, but I guess it takes a while for the fruit to mature.
Saturday, 25 June 2011
Overnight rain decorated the redbud leaves (and more), magnifying pores and veins.
Or something.
Anyway, it kept the heat at bay for a while. Steamily, but not…as hot…as fast.
Friday, 24 June 2011
I held out such hope for my peppers this year, but apparently a crop is not to be.
Shrunken raisiny-wrinkled, olive pit-sized fruit do not edibles make.
I had wondered if we had enough bees to pollinate the flowers, but apparently that’s not the problem.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
What does it mean that the fennel has fallen atop the bee balm—and now the bees are on the fennel blooms and not the bee balm?
This is the third summer for the fennel, which we did not grow in mid-Michigan gardens. Of course, it is only in its third summer because I have not harvested the bulbs.
I’m not used to vegetables that overwinter.