Category: Photography
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Day for Giving Thanks is Tomorrow
All of my American readers will be frightfully busy. Kitchens will already be groaning with fresh food, the clank of saucepans being heaved up out of the pot cupboard that can never stay straight. ( Just shut the doors fast with your foot.) They will be sorting the ingredients for Gramma Emma’s special recipe for…
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Walkabout on the Farmy!
Yesterday afternoon Mary’s Cat, Thing Two, TonTon and I walked the fences checking for holes. Naturally we had company. Thing Two and Mary’s Cat were particularly vigilant about checking fences. They like everyone to be in their proper places. Speaking of which the chickens are behind bars again until the ground is frozen. I am going…
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Treasures from California
Before I take you outside for an inspection of the Farmy, I want to show you a treasure I found in California. A beautiful girl took me to a Fantastic Second Hand Shop, I think it was called a Consignment Store. Look what we found: I used to use one in Italy when I worked…
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Following a Mandarin through a massive Californian Packhouse
We are going to follow a mandarin today. We are going to visit a fruit packhouse, it is my last day in Central California. Nothing you will see is sustainable or organic and absolutely nothing is old fashioned. But interesting nevertheless. This packhouse packs the Cutie mandarins. Mostly I am interested in the architectural…
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A Room with No View
A broken window in California. So, I have relocated. I am out in orchard country now. Soon we will plant the cuttings I brought from my garden for Third Sons herb garden. Then I am taking on another supermarket, with a better list. I am getting good at this. My son is a great cook…
The Kitchen's Garden 