Gardens and plants

 This year's garden.

From the left: Sesame plants, a small row of ghost peppers,

one row of sesame plants, 

four and a half rows of ghost peppers & other peppers, basil, 

two huge bushes of sesame leaves & sugar snap peas, 

and 4 groups of Balsamina Impatiens planted here and there.

All the little peppers on the right, the balsaminas, 

and the two bushes of sesame were just transplanted yesterday.

This got me thinking: What was last year's garden like?

Ah.. yeah. it was quite adorable, that's what.

Though I think this might be the garden from two years ago..

I'm not sure.

Unfortunately I didn't find any photos of gardens before last year.

But I did find nice photos from the summer:

There is a metal donut resting on the rock that 

I'm not sure what the function of it is.

 At vanderbilt mansion

I know I had a garden in 2007 too, 

but all I could find was photos of flowers.

 

It was a particularly sunny day.

Train ride

PB PIG OUT

The pig finally arrives an hour into the event.

Small lil' guy 

Missing from this photo: 

A quarter pound of (I think it was house-made) Liverwurst

I grew up eating liver, and I love it.

A very rich chocolate peanut butter "mousse" cake.

After the pig out I was really in the mood for some desert.

The pattern in this counter top metal is astronomical.

Salad with blue cheese and carrot ginger soup

and Captain Lawrence Liquid Gold

Three kids of oysters. One was good, 

one was very salty, the last one was kind of fishy..

Noodles and tofu

Phootshop's Photomerge can result in some very unsettling photographs.

Plants

 Seedlings from the sunroom. 

The bigger bowls are ghost peppers that will be transplanted outdoors shortly.

 I wonder if these are edible.

 Probably not...

The cosmos I planted near the border. They're doing ok.

 The grass is full of these tiny broad leaf plants. 

And a sprinkle of clovers here and there.

Suddenly it started to rain.

Dinner, pub, room

 

Dinner! I grew those leaves myself.

They are very small since they're the first harvest.

(I mostly picked the leaves to prune the crop, since it was crowded)

Now the leaves are as big as the shape the rice is making.

Brauhaus. .. I didn't go inside,

but I was intrigued by the front of the store.

A photo of my room.