today i finished up things in the taylor st. garden before new tenants move in july 1. primarily i finished the tea house floor and added a bit of edging to the tea house and a long neglected end of a river rock pathway:
after 3 years in the ground the espaliered pear tree is starting to show some fruit. next year should be huge!
for the first 2 years i destroyed any signs of fruit in order to focus growth on the roots.
the day’s highlight was peering into a robin’s nest 6 feet off the ground within a italian cypress tree. the cool shade of bluish green reminds me of turquoise.
soon we’ll be putting fresh raspberries in our cereal each morning:
The rose is Gertrude Jekyll, an all-time smeller, while the name of the clematis escapes me. The two are quite a pair together.
These are some of my favorite pictures thus far from the
Jesuit High School project:
I was co-editor-in-chief of my high school yearbook and this project is reminicent of creating yearbook pictures.
This time around I don’t have to drop my camera and head back to class. Instead I go about my work and keep the orbs peeled for interesting light, strong compositions and decisive moments.
Brian & Gina’s daughter Olivia is the sweetest! She was dying to show me her bunny rabbit and to take a look at my new camera.
“Sorry Livvy, the camera’s not a toy.”
Olivia understood my hesitancy and displayed maturity well beyond her years.
The new camera is a dream: no shutter lag and a maximum of 8 frames per second. I am enjoying the ride thus far and must read the manual soon.
I haven’t been to New York in a while and would like to visit again. Walking and exploring are two of my favorite activities there. I pulled this picture from a notebook full of random negatives this morning; I like the composition.
More often than not roses are more trouble than they are worth in this humble gardener’s opinion. Rosa ‘Pat Austin’ is another story:
