Thursday, May 07, 2009

May scheme, asparagus and rhubarb.

1. All the hedges are May green and foamy white.

2. Fat and thin asparagus spears in our vegetable box. I like the way they change colour as they cook from dusky green with purple chevrons to bright seaweed jade.

3. I like taking a dish of slow-cooked rhubarb out of the oven and stirring it so that the stalks fall into tangled threads.

Volunteers, eleven and bright crayons.

1. Volunteers growing out of the yellow clay on the edge of the building site: a castor oil plant with spiked green seed pods; and a couple ...