by Danny | Aug 17, 2009 | Creative Process, gardening
Today I sit in my studio and think about my garden. This year’s vegetables are beset by weeds and critters. Gophers have eaten whole heads of lettuce and bunnies have gnawed down kale and broccoli. As the parent of toddler, I just don’t have the kind of time I used to...
by Danny | Feb 27, 2009 | Creative Process, gardening
I am so grateful for this view from my studio. To some, this may look terribly overgrown. But if you had seen it when we first moved here, you’d realise that this is actually quite tame. The fact that you are free to wonder around the garden is an improvement in...
by Danny | Sep 23, 2008 | art and healing, books, gardening, Inspiration
“I am a mad gardener. I mutter and rant, and at night, I shake dry seeds out of my unruly mane of hair. I’m constantly visiting my local hydroponics equipment supplier. The garden is in my bones, in my gut, and in my hands that pearl sweat at the first...
by Danny | Mar 21, 2008 | art on exhibit, gardening
“On the new edge of springtime when I stand on the front porch shading my eyes from the weak morning light, sniffing out a tinge of green on the hill and the scent of yawning earthworms, oh, boy, then! I roll like a bear out of hibernation. The maple buds glow pink,...
by Danny | Mar 7, 2008 | Creative Process, gardening
For the past several months, I have let my vegetable garden go wild. The result has been a jungle of weeds and plants sending up tall shoots, going to seed. The other day, I traversed wet grass to the far corner of our yard to pay the vegetable garden a visit and was...
by Danny | Aug 28, 2007 | art on exhibit, gardening
Over the weekend, I harvested quite a bounty. The garden is exploding these days with zucchini, cucumbers, broccoli, chard, green beans, and even pumpkins. Pictured here are the first of our pumpkins – yes, they are small ornamental ones and the big ones have a ways...
