Below this nest, on the grass, were two tiny birds with eyes that had never opened, featherless, fresh from the…

For years the front yard was a rectangle of grass with one small spruce in the corner.  Now Otis oversees…

Iris, the quintisential May flower.  Somehow I have yellow ones, but no purple.  These flower spikes are over four feet…

This one with chocolate mint and lavender. I don’t know who ate this cake, or whether they enjoyed it.  I…

This is my other garden – the Cedar Ridge Community Farm, where what we grow is given to local people…

My big brother had a birthday, and so I brought him a cake – my now-standard almond with raspberry filling…

My two fig trees – a 6-year-old Brown Turkey, and a Celeste I just planted last summer – have set…

One Easter morning, over ten years ago now, I walked to the market in my small town in Turkmenistan to…

Candied violets.  First you wash them…  …then paint them with egg white and dust with superfine sugar… …and then you…