Among all the flowering plants in my garden, there have always been the oriental poppies – the classic reddish-orange and the salmon colors -- at both the front and the back of the house. When we had a graduation...
I was thinking the other day about seeds. Yes. I am exactly that boring. Everyone always recommends you plant seeds in sterile potting soil, or advises you on ways to sterilize soil to kill anything that might kill young seedlings....
As the wedding season is approaching, I look back at my only daughter’s two weddings with nostalgia. Leila met Chaka at Brown, back in 1989 -1990. When they decided to get married on the beach in Marina Del Rey,...