Plant-shopping in Portugal (or almost)
It is under crushing heat, a blinding sun and the highest of blue skies (for the Pacific Northwest, that is) that I criss-crossed fields of this nursery for the first time. A heavenly breeze carried a heady but sublime scent of over-ripened fruits from the raspberry field found over the holly hedge. In the heat of the day, no birds dared singing, an antique tractor slowly drudged by, powerful impact sprinklers strived to keep crops cool and moist. I
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Summer Vacations with Lapham’s Book of Nature
The latest issue of Lapham’s Quarterly (volume 1, number 3) entitled Book of Nature, was awarded front pocket of my carry-on travelers’ bag. My short summer escape to the family farm, half a continent away, where Internet is out of reach and time is as plentiful as it is unhurried, is happening in good company.
The Lapham’s Quarterly is a new publication master-crafted by Lewis Lapham, this man of exception
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