home grown tomatoes

Tomatoes, a perfectly ripe avocado, fresh mozzarella, baby basil leaves from the garden...mixed with a little olive oil, balsamic and s & p and served over brown rice.

So good...I  almost forgot about my wine.

Summer in the City - Part Three

I love window boxes.  When we lived in Connecticut I loved planting window boxes for every season.  It was my way to make some sense of living on two acres, a lot of it wetlands, overgrown pachysandra and quite a bit of poison ivy.  Planting window boxes was my way of gardening when I felt like I needed a beginning, a middle and an end.  The rest of the two acres seemed to always need weeding, trimming....something.  When we were in the city last week I loved walking the streets with brownstones in search of window boxes.  I took these photos as we walked along Christopher Street in the Village.