Words&Dirt

Following up on my last journal, I’m now thrilled to call myself the proud owner of a fully functioning, timer-controlled drip irrigation system.  This system covers all ten of our main beds––five in the old garden as well as the five new beds I’ve constructed since returning from Japan.  I’ve held off on running lines [...]

“It was as if they were approaching the edge of the world; their oval of light, cut off abruptly ahead of them, became shorter and shorter.  But far out on the curved screen of the Sea their monstrous foreshortened shadows had appeared, magnifying and exaggerating every movement.  Those shadows had been their companions every step [...]