I had a nice trip to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Museum last weekend. I recommend checking it all out and to check out The Dinner Party at the museum. It was amazing seeing it in person after all the photos I’ve seen in art books. I took a few snaps of the flowers and also a few from my backyard which is just starting to bud. Enjoy!
So the garden is in summer mode! Lots of roses are in bloom, green tomatoes are starting to grow, and strawberries too! Enjoy!
I took some more pics of the front garden at our place. The tulips are poppin’! Also, the Dogwood tree and Plum tree are blossoming nicely. AND I saw a snail in the backyard!
I moved house this past month and into a whole new beautiful garden situation! With a backyard and little front garden! Luckily I was able to bring all little trees with me. Things really popped up after the Nor’ Easter we had a few weeks back too.
I feel like I didn’t get enough quality time on the terrace garden this year, but loved every minute I did get. Unbelievably, it’s December and the roses are still popping! The leaves of the fairy roses turned a nice shade of yellow this past week.
I had the MOST wonderful time signing books in Boston and Northampton with Tim Fish. It turned out to be a perfect weekend to travel up from New York by train. I got some good leaf-peeping in. Love that fall color! It’s hitting the tail end especially farther North, but it’s still amazing and one of the best things about being in New England bar none. Even the trees in my terrace got into the flaming fall act!
My mom and Jim took me to the Harvard Coop (great to see them!) where they had a very nice display and Tim and I got a good responsive crowd for our reading. I also ended up drinking two delish decaf mochas because two people brought them to me at my request accidentally. It’s nice to get that kind treatment as a guest!
After the reading we retired along with our great Boston friends to a cool Mexican place called Border Cafe. Which was crowded and fun with good food at good prices. I ended up back at Tim’s place late and marveled at his great vintage comics collection!
The next morning we went to a cool Portugese diner called Neighborhood Restaurant for breakfast it was totally cute with great food and all the meals came with a choice of Cream of Wheat (with cinammon) or fruit. The Cream of Wheat was awesome! Here is a funny sign from there.
Then Tim and I made the drive from Boston to Northampton, a gorgeous town I recommend everybody should visit. The comic shop Modern Myths was amazing, had a great selection (in addition to manga, graphic novels, they sell used too! Also, they had Pocky and Ramune soda. Too cool!). The proprieters were so kind and welcoming I was nearly in tears over their hospitality. Before the signing I got a hot chocolate (made with melted dark chocolate) from Cafe Chocolate (or is it Chocolate Cafe?) right nearby. Anyway great place. Afterwards the owners kindly took us to a fantastic Asian restaurant called Zen. Loved it! What a great trip! I also got to see my uncle which was a great treat.
My roses are still booming and now my strawberries are making a comeback as well. The theme for this fall is…resurrection!
In an unexpected turn of events my roses rose from the grave (Ha-ha! I love puns!). Usually after their glorious summer fling they are done for the year, but much to my surprise this weekend I woke up and about six new roses had opened up (cue The Damned song). I also got to buy asters at the farmer’s market this weekend. Extra-pretty. I was too late in the day for the mums, apparently all the locals bought them out in the morning hours. I’ll have to be more aggressive this weekend.
I’ve been working on some new comic ideas and doing lots of house stuff all weekend. After yesterday’s rain I went out and checked on my terrace garden. I have a few flowers here and there including portulaca (which has been growing weed-like in a few of my pots), petunia, and my heliotrope is coming back. The Coleus I planted about a few weeks ago is popping up nicely! The big news is peaches! My peaches have matured and are poppin off the tree. My mom suggested I bake a peach crumble, so I did. I improvised since I didn’t have flour around, I used pancake mix instead combined with melted butter and sugar (I didn’t have brown sugar on hand). Worked like a charm!
I also took some new pics of Slinky!
I have a terrace and I like to do container gardening. Right now it’s pretty sparce since the heat wave dried up a lot of the annuals while I was on tour, but I was expecting that. I planted some coleus seeds that are already popping up and my little trees are doing OK. In September I plan to get some nice fall flowers like mums and asters, get some color back out there! Anyway, here are some great photos I took in the Spring-time when the flowers were poppin’. Pretty!
