When I received the email from Rick & Melanie, I knew my life was about to change. They have a beautiful backyard filled with fruit trees but wanted to clear out a couple. If I came to dig it up, I could have a fantastic, abundantly-producing, exotic apple tree with the world’s best fruit for… [...]
Tags: Apples, Free, Fruit Trees, Growing, Transplanting, Trees
I recently stepped onto my front porch to find my dear friend and next door neighbor Melissa pruning her roses. Leaves, petals, and clippings were in piles on the sidewalk. She was really trimming those babies back. Carefully choosing which branches to snip away, she removed most of the visible life. I sort of cringed [...]
I am a lover of learning. While I definitely have a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants spirit in a lot of my projects, I am a big fan of education. For this reason, I try to expose myself to lots of sources of knowledge when I have the chance. Several years ago, I wanted to learn to paint so [...]
Tags: art, Downtown Fullerton, Fullerton Art Walk, oil painting, Project Art School, Studio EMP
Last year, I had extremely high hopes. When we joined with neighbors to create a raised bed community garden in our backyard, I started to lick my lips. Homegrown tomatoes, carrots, radishes, beans, and the like were just waiting to be harvested (after planting and growing, of course). I dreamed of walking out my back [...]
Tags: Brown Thumb, garden, Gardening, Green Thumb, Heirloom Tomato, Planting, Planting Seeds, Seeds, tomato
