Virginia Sapiro

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Retired political scientist in NH, Boston who still scholars. Also make believe I'm a historian, farmer, cook, baker. I do love democracy, knowing stuff, looking at art, listening to music. Current research: history of higher education in the U.S.

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This season has begun. Left to right Music, Chernock Red, Georgian Crystal garlic and Highlander onions.

Dahlias beginning to come in. Brown Sugar:

This part of J. Jackson's dissent:

Mr. Lennington may be correct, but not sure he understands that the Declarers owned slaves, didn't let Catholics open schools, and didn't even tolerate all Protestant denominations. So if the anti-DEI stuff is in line with the Declaration of Independence....

Hello there! You never know who’s napping under the plastic mulch in your greenhouse.

Some days I think she is very concerned about how things are going.

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Old Splice.

If you see this post a photo you took at sunset.

If I could write poetry, she would be my subject.

The most fun teaching I've done .... ever! Bread class with the Gilmanton School Second Grade!

View from dinner on the porch tonight,

Phew. A long week. Onion and leek plants all in last week. This week: the tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggplants, plus keeping up with the tomato plants and dahlia tubers I sent to our local Market. Rarely has a shower and a gin and tonic felt as good as this evening.

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Julia Lynch

They just don’t. (Squirrels not so common out here in rural parts.) Later in the summer we have to worry about the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Sometimes nature on my side. Here's a Very Hungry Caterpillar (aka tomato hornworm) that has been victimized by a wasp that likes to lay her eggs in the caterpillar. As the eggs emerge as parasites on the caterpillar, the caterpillar dies. Isn't the violence of nature terrific?

Today I planted the tomatoes. 43 varieties (heirlooms from around the world), 2 plants each. I design my vegetable gardens around playing with food. I love seeing the variety, thinking about how many different ways tomatoes tomato. My knees and back are not thanking me for what I did to them today.

Yes, Babka. I did this. Can't wait.

A friend just found a lovely old photo in which I was apparently giving my baby up to the painter Denis Wirth-Miller. I'm not entirely sure that would have been a great idea. He was one of the characters in my earlier life.

Gotta be crazy. I just potted up 34 different varieties of heirloom tomato plants and 8 varieties of dahlias to sell at our local market. Now, back to the paper I'm supposed to be writing.

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Anna O Law

Passover over so look what I did!

Still have this on my downsized bookshelves from when I was studying this kind of thing. Almost 1,000 pages of a 1969 congressional hearing on "campus unrest." But I never noticed the stamp that said what office it originally came from. The Honorable Edith Green. D Member from Oregon's 3rd. 1955-74.

So brief. So beautiful.

Tonight's local sunset.

This is what our solar panels experienced during the eclipse. Notes: A little spotty wispy cloud cover arrived just in time. Obvs by the time the event was over (4:30 our time) the sun was descending anyway, but the skies were pretty clear and lovely.

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Anna O Law

I went with this one. Now I just hope I actually use it!

Ready for the oven: Ottolenghi’s Marmalade-Glazed Lamb with Mixed Spice and Cumin, but with leg, not shoulder bc not a fan of shoulder and we have lots of people to serve.

Nice late Saturday afternoon reading and dozing.

I thought you might like this picture of jeweled trees from a couple of days ago.

My frisbee and me wanna go play in the snow. Now.

It’s the time of the year when I check roughly every 12 minutes to determine what has germinated and how much it has grown.