Take thy plastic spade,It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,They are thy colours.~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782 This year I am planting a cutting garden, I wanted to make sure the seeds were in before I left for my trip. I planted The Bee’s Knees Sunflowers, Double Click Cosmos, Carnations, Dahlias, Salmon… Continue reading Planting a Cutting Garden
Month: May 2008
Key Ingredient Makes Posting Recipes Easy
As part of my semester work I had to work in a science and what better science for a chef than the study of gastronomy. One of the ways I’m discussing the science of food is through lost recipes. So when I found this site that makes it really easy to add your Food Recipe… Continue reading Key Ingredient Makes Posting Recipes Easy
Save 300-700 Plastic Bags a Year
I keep forgetting to post about the ChicoBag, thanks to my sister for sending me one. According to the ChicoBag literature using reusable bage will save 3-7 gallons of crude oil per American a year. I bought green bags for the supermarket but this one is really handy because it folds up into its own… Continue reading Save 300-700 Plastic Bags a Year
Another Great Mark Twain Quote
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. ~Mark Twain In less than one week I’ll be in Listowel, Ireland. My… Continue reading Another Great Mark Twain Quote
Catching the Changes of Your Mind
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes… Continue reading Catching the Changes of Your Mind
What Is A Friend?
Spring in the High Plains Desert
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unploughed ground. Lyndon Johnson
How Fiction Works
“The first 5. 1. Write every day.2. Observe and listen.3. Employ all of the senses.4. Use strong verbs.5. Detail.” Oakley Hall from How Fiction Works Proven Secrets to Writing Successful Stories that Hook Readers and Sell
More Billy Collins-Forgetfulness
Patience, Insight, Curiosity
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance–that is to throw away anything… Continue reading Patience, Insight, Curiosity