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Gayla’s Garden: A Short Film
Local filmmaker Stacey Dodge visited my rooftop garden in the spring to shoot a short for the Toronto Urban Film Festival. Fast forward several months and her film (edited by Beau Dickson) was selected and will be showing this Sunday, September 8 on monitors in the Toronto Subway System. The short will be in rotation …
Who Done It?
Look who showed up looking for lunch while I was out on the roof taking photos yesterday afternoon. He had absolutely no fear whatsoever. I could have reached out and touched him. I yelled and stomped around and he just looked at me like I was holding out a bag of peanuts. He ain’t care. …
‘Chocolate Cherry’ Sunflower: Full Coverage
My mad love for the ‘Chocolate Cherry’ sunflower has resulted in almost daily mini photo sessions, capturing it at every stage of development and possible angle. I’ve come to realize that if I continued posting updates as part of the Daily Botanical you’ll be stuck looking at pictures everyday for weeks. It just makes more …
Taters Precious?
With all the rain this year I got a bit paranoid and decided to harvest the potatoes a little early. We still got a pretty good yield and are really happy with this variety, ‘Purple Peruvian’ a blue/purple fingerling variety that maintains its color throughout, even after cooking.
Troy-Bilt Pony Garden Tiller
When Troy-Bilt, makers of large lawn and garden power machines, contacted me about reviewing a product I was a little hesitant. Actually I was a lot hesitant. I said no at first and then mulled it over for about a month before deciding to give it a try. First, let me explain. My first few …
Davin’s Nasturtium
Davin drew this chalk pastel of a nasturtium blossom on a piece of discarded Polaroid paper while I took Polaroids of tomatoes.