White Mountains, NH, January 29, 2011

My wife and I drove to the White Mountain National Park on Saturday. It's just over an hour from our home. Here are a few photos from the high vantage point of the Pemigewasset Overlook.


The overlook is about in the middle of the the Kancamagus Highway, which runs for about 34 miles from Conway To Lincoln. Photo by Stacy Lynch.



The shelter at the overlook, looking over a trail.



The Pemi overlook shelter.



An alternately cloudy and sunny day, with sudden shifts of cold any time there was cloud cover.



A trail going into the woods. That's a buried picnic table at the lower left.



The setting sun over the pass.



Some of the rain goes to the Atlantic watershed, some to the Pacific and some of it winds up in my basement this spring!

The Garden as of Mid-August

Continuing to chronicle the first garden we have ever had -- since we used to live in NYC and had concrete and trash cans and a stoop where a yard should be.


Above: the first of our three raised beds filled with compost. We have zucchini, tomatoes and (obscured by zucchini) cucumbers.


Turnips, chard, lettuce, watermelon, cantaloupe, carrots and some mixed salad greens.


Growing up the large right homemade trestle are beans, in the back on the store-bought trestle are blackeyed Susans. In the middle: okra, peppers, eggplant and strawberries. The red bean blooms are VERY popular with bumblebees and hummingbirds.

Related: from July 2, 2008: Off-Topic: How Our Garden Grows.

Off Topic: How Our Garden Grows

After a couple decades of living in Brooklyn, NY, we moved to rural New Hampshire. We now live on a ridge in the foothills of the White Mountains. It's great fun to actually have a yard and a garden!

Above is a stitched together photo of our 3 raised beds. The photo was taken on June 3rd.


And here is a photo of all three beds. That's a pile of compost in front. This shot is also from June 3rd.



And, above, the same 3 boxes (again, stitched together photos) as of this week. What we are growing in those raised beds: tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, lettuce, turnips, escarole, radishes, beans, green peppers, eggplant, strawberries.


The bushy tomato plants are in the foreground.


Above is a closer shot of the bean trellis. A work of messy folk art if ever I saw one.


Obligatory photo of what the cats do while we are outside, working hard, weeding and watering. This is Sam, in the sun, sleeping on a fleece in the windowsill. His leg hanging off is in blatant defiance of the law of gravity.