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The No Excuses Project: Moving towards a perfect garden

March 17, 2010
The No Excuses Project: Moving towards a perfect garden

I’m trying to be realistic with this one – there’s only so many projects that can fill up the available free time.  The goal of the no excuses project is  to stop putting off the possible, not how to become a superhero! While a garden is very important to me, it’s not a critical...
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The No Excuses Project: The imperfect garden

March 10, 2010

Although I have a secret yearning for a lush and perfect cottage garden like the kind you see on estate travel shows I also  know that’s requires more patience than anything else. At the same time there is weeding, fertilizing and pruning that needs to happen to get it there.  Getting the bare minimum...
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Lessons from the garden – community

July 30, 2009

We seem to be living in an increasingly disconnected age, or maybe that should be more electronically connected.  Most of us don’t even know our neighbors anymore. Partly that’s because of computers, but long commutes and real-estate prices are just as much to blame.  In just the five years I’ve owned my house I’m...
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Perspective can be tricky

July 13, 2009
Perspective can be tricky

Every few years I get myself up before dawn, pack my camera bag, and head out to the tulip fields in Skagit Valley. I don’t go every year because I don’t want it to become so repetitious that I fail to see in new ways. Even in the early hours before anything is open,...
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