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Somewhere on the Outer Banks
a boy and his dog…
Beach Bound…
12 Saturday Jul 2014
Category Archives: Seasons
Picky, Picky
24 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in Gardening, Gentleman Farming, Living, Seasons, Totem Hall
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bountiful bush bean, dark star zucchini, farm chores, heirloom vegetables, kitchen garden, lioness f1 squash, organic gardening, plants, procrastination, solstice, sumter cucumber, tequila sunrise pepper, vegetable garden, vegetables, victory garden
Most folks call it a vegetable garden.
most say this is a vegetable garden…
Others prefer to use kitchen garden.
some say this is a kitchen garden…
Me, well, for me I go old school; it’s a victory garden.
i love the smell of veggies in the morning…
Here at Totem Hall we let our freak flag fly and do our best to live the whole granola crunching organic lifestyle. Let’s see, for this year’s edition of my victory garden, I planted corn, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, peppers, basil, eggplant, tomatoes, watermelon, and, for the sheer heck of it all, potatoes. All are organic, with a big percentage of my garden being heirloom varieties. In case you’re curious, I do talk to my plants. Why not, it works for Zonker.
zonker’s down with it…
On solstice day, I had the first picks of the season. Yeah, yeah, I know the harvest should be earlier, but what can I say, I planted way too late, a victim of well, my tendency to do this or that before doing this or that.
in search of zucchini…
our first squash…
picking bush beans…
and the end result…
Rhododendron Pop
29 Tuesday Apr 2014
Posted in Gardening, Gentleman Farming, Seasons
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farm chores, fieldwork, flowers, hay, kubota, mowing, plants, rhododendron, taylor pittsburgh mower deck, tractors
go girl…
that’s right…
you go, girl…
Spring has sprung.
&
So, fieldwork calls…
boy toy…
saddle up…
front field, in part…
right, off we go then…
Oh Those Winter Flowers
09 Saturday Mar 2013
Posted in Passages, Seasons, Totem Hall
winter flower portrait #8
In my part of the world, winter is fast giving way to spring, albeit without a fight. Over the last couple of weeks, we have seen record setting rains, followed by a brutish cold snap. Through it all, flowers bloomed here and flowers bloomed there, and not just our winter friends, the camellias. Though they made their appearance in town, out in the country, the only ones missing from the party are our daffodils and paper whites. The wonder and beauty of flowers, of course, is the ability to take a snip, or two, and bring that wonder and beauty inside, something I have been able to do every day this winter, which is truly a blessing. Anyway, to celebrate another morning of freezing temperatures, and in eager anticipation of spring, I present a collection of some of our winter flowers taken out, and about, at the Hall.
winter flower portrait #6
winter flower portrait #4
winter flower portrait #17
okay, not a winter flower portrait, but still…
The Gentleman Farmer 