Bird Sighting

in Winchester Center.  I have no idea what kind of bird this is, but I liked how the water looked swirling around it.

Interplanting

This year we are having better luck with our cucumbers.  We made 4 mounds and planted the seedlings on the top of each mound, hoping the mound will retain more moisture.  Since there was a clear space between the mounds I was able to squeeze in some onions in the cross between the mounds.  I have read that onions keep pests away, so between the onions and the mounds we are determined to finally have a decent cucumber crop this year.  We have also mulched with sea grass to suppress weeds and retain moisture.  All seems to be going well so far.

Sunflower Seed

A new sunflower seedling in our vegetable garden with the seed still on top.

Update: Birds or Chipmunks kept eating my sunflower seedlings.  After several failed attempts I cut up toilet paper rolls to 3 inches in length and put them around the seedlings once they sprouted.  This seems to have saved some, but not all my sunflowers.  The critters were able to get to a few despite the protection.

Pick Your Own

These strawberries and sugar snap peas were the first pick your own fruits and veggies from our CSA Farm last weekend.

Willie Nelson

We went to see Willie Nelson this past Sunday Night.  It was great to have a chance to see a music icon who is also a big farm advocate through Farm Aid, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land.

As you can see from these shots we had great seats.  I also took a pretty crappy video to capture some of the sound during my favorite song, You are Always on my mind.

Garden 2009

Our first Iris bloom . . .

. . . and the vegetable garden is planted.

Bring on Summer!

Vegetable list this year (clockwise from bottom left)
Pie Pumpkin
Carrots (not planted quite yet)
Peppers (jalapeno and jabanero)
Potatoes? (not planted yet)
Cucumber
Zucchini
Delicata Squash
Green Beans and Pole Beans
Tomatillos
Tomatoes
Basil

Earth Day 09

Happy Earth Day!  This image was generated at Tag Galaxy, where I  entered the tag earthday and it grabbed images from Flickr.  Watch out because it is addictive.

Blurry Walking Shot

Taken by David & Holly of us a while ago . . .

My Earth Hour Video

This is my small attempt to represent and participate in Earth Hour. I intended to have some footage of the Boston Skyline as well, but the fog rolled in as soon as it was time for Boston to turn down the lights.  I limited the amount of time I spent on it to the hour the electricity was off so it isn’t anything fancy.

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is on March 28th, 2009 at 8:30pm.  I plan to participate.  Join in.  More info. at http://www.earthhour.org