Self-portrait

How I know it’s cold outside, my luxurious closet temperature gauge

She’s on her throne of judgment, happy #Caturday to all

Winter is coming

She’s always hoping for a hitchhiker, but we only got a snake that one time.

Nature is healing. My husband listened to the news this morning, for the first time in a year.

The fall foliage this year is truly spectacular, we’ve had the perfect weather, just enough rain, no hurricane, cool nights. All the trees are beautiful

You can the thinning of the separation between the living and the dead with plants. Most everything at nurseries is 40-70% off, and if you’re lucky you’ll find end-of-season superstars like this Mexican sage

My favorite PG13 sign today

Only 3 more projects before the season is over, but they might be my favorites. Fall planting is the best

Back in Brooklyn!

I’ve been spending time with my mom, to help her through the first anniversary of widowhood. I got to visit “my” oak, which I planted from an acorn when I was 11

Not everybody knows summer is over

Gavin Newsom has the opportunity to do the funniest thing at 10:30am PST.

Good omens

Please stop doing this, media

I just sent this to Rep. Brandon Gill's communications director:

She read the news #caturday

Take care of each other

Is anyone old enough to remember Hitchens filleting Heston on CNN for being an ignorant warmonger? youtu.be/scmhi2Ub_g0?...

Is the parade over yet?

My favorite sign at today’s No Kings protest

My mom was visiting last week, so I got to all the public gardens, including the High line. I love the emphasis on flowers and pollinators. The opposition between political power and the arts is so striking, hyperbolic, campy ultra-masculine theater vs. the divine feminine

I made a new rosemary plant from a broken branch, and I couldn’t be prouder

How I know it’s almost time to restart the irrigation, the vernal pond is almost dry

Today is refreshing reminder that nature is healing. Both of these guys knew the truth about each other all along

All this rain is the perfect excuse to cut all my opened peonies and bring them inside

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

The rain stopped, and the first two peonies popped open

Love to all the people who mother

It’s the season of anticipation, looking every day at peony and rose buds

I met a friend today

Caturday portrait (detail)

19 today, she got two mandarins, her favorite treats

Garden flowers

Easter breakfast

Full on tulip season

Spent an hour hanging out with the horses at Pratt Institute today, not a minute wasted

Isn’t it magical these tulips come back year after year, no work required?

I just had an epiphany: I have dedicated my entire life to applying a Studio Ghibli filter to outdoor spaces, before I even knew what filters or Studio Ghibli was.

I love the beginning of spring, that first new moon brings everything up

Trying to keep it together

My joy right now, watching the hellebores unfurl. I don’t think I’ll be happier when they bloom.

If you need a moment of zen

I’d vote for a pizza slice reheated in a microwave over Chuck Schumer

Mood

PSA: when you write to your Senator, make sure to copy the text before pressing submit because sometimes it doesn’t go through and you’ll have to re-type the whole message.

Witch hazel and hellebore, perfectly on time

Feels like we’re all in the backseat of a car being driven by drunks toward the edge of a cliff.