The okra and peppers are finishing. The greens are just starting to fill out (they were late to germinate this year due to the lingering heat and lack of rain). I just planted a whole […]
Brave?
”You’re brave!” one after another of the people working at the polls told me today. It was a familiar refrain that I had heard all day today, yesterday, and the day before (all rainy days) […]
Garlic (and Story) time
It’s time to plant garlic. You separate garlic heads into cloves and then plant each one pointy side up, as deep as it is long, about two inches apart in loose, healthy soil. I have […]
Last cone of the year?
It may have been the last ice cream cone of the year, and it was a good one, from Frosty Caboose in Chamblee, Georgia overlooking the train tracks just spitting distance away from a multiuse […]
Good advice
This timeless reminder is worth sharing (photo taken at the march yesterday in Atlanta). I ride my bike and bear witness at these events as a street photographer as often as I can (which, frankly, […]
“If She Can Do It, Maybe I Can Too”
If you are reading Round Ireland with a Duck and thinking maybe I can do this, too, the answer is, yes, you can. In fact, one of the book’s reader reviewers is WWOOfing internationally right now. She told me […]
“The City,” from Tip to Tip
After 19 hours on Amtrak with my folding bike, I rode Manhattan (just called “The City” to those of us from there) from tip to tip (George Washington Bridge to Battery Park) and everywhere in […]
My Color Scheme Be Schemin’!
I’m packed and ready to go (folding bike, Amtrak ticket, the works), and my color scheme be schemin’! Even my little farmer thumbs are green! One hundred years ago right now, my Irish grandfather was […]
