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Peach Chairs Aaah. Summer’s end. Time for that final dip in the pool, walk on the beach, drink on the deck. Bittersweet, perhaps, but there’s something pleasurable about reaching the end of the row, the turn in the road, the fresh new page. Labor Day is a freestyle holiday, relatively new as holidays go. […] Mauve Madness ’Tis the season to be mauve at Seattle’s Green Lake. Tree nuts flock to Green Lake all year round to marvel at the towering Sequoias, noble Elms and whispering Cottonwoods. In spring the cherry trees gnarled with age billow with blooms of palest pink and white. In autumn golden Plane trees shower […] You don't need to be royalty to enjoy this lawn. What does your front lawn say about you? Stay out, or come on in? In the Big Picture, the National Mall serves as our national red carpet, our welcome mat to the world. It’s where we gather as a nation to air our grievances […] The original woodblock by Deborah Harris of Fergus the Green Man. For those of us who enjoy spending a large portion of our lives reading fiction, the borderline between the world of the imagination and the so-called real world is sketched in erasable ink. We whose literary passports bear the stamps of dozens of […] A little touch of heaven borders the sidewalk in Ravenna. What’s brown, fried, and crackles when you step on it? If you answered the grass next to the sidewalk, then you might be the not-so-proud possessor of a hellstrip. That arid strip of exposed soil between the sidewalk and the street can be a […] Come Into The Garden The aptly named Fragrant Cloud. The local palette. The rhodi treehouse Sound sunset Good to the last drop. […] The splashing water of thirteen cascading pools helps relieve D.C.'s summer heat. Many visitors to Washington, D.C., never get beyond the nexus of grandeur and gee whiz spectacle concentrated around the Capitol and the National Mall, but for those who venture past the gentrified corridors of power, the city has its share of fascinating […] Bougainvillaea trained to tree-shape exemplifies the garden's living art. A garden is performance art of the most ephemeral and transcendent kind. Blooms come and go. The aspect of the landscape alters with every passing cloud, every sudden shower. So for the travelers like me who go out of their way to visit gardens, it’s […] Good Day, Sunshine With autumn nearly upon us, I find myself growing a bit wistful for the Summer That Wasn’t. Some people, especially those back East who suffered through months of sweltering heat, might find it hard to relate to the longing for warm summer nights. But this year in Seattle the summer “heat” […] Ripeness is all, the fellow said. Tried Green Tomatoes If that’s true, I got nothin’. Plenty o’. This is the fifth summer I’ve been gardening in Seattle, and you might think I would have made the adjustment by now. You’d be wrong. The problem is, I’m still thinking in Virginia summer terms. As in: […] |
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