66 Square Feet: From the terrace

Sunday, October 10, 2010

From the terrace

Some ripe red strawberries.

Chives for making chive oil.

A jam jar of flowers, rather haphazard.

Geese, leaving.

7 comments:

flwrjane said...: Charmingly haphazard. What a beautiful day, yes?

We're grilling flank steak for dinner, wish you were here:)

xo Jane; October 10, 2010 5:19 PM
jvdh said...: Ek's jaloers op jou chives - myne is basies opgeeet...; October 10, 2010 6:18 PM
Thomas said...: That's a lot of chives! It looks like you decapitated you entire plant!; October 10, 2010 7:14 PM
frank@new york city garden said...: I second what Thomas said. Also, cherry tomatoes in the arrangement a nice touch:); October 10, 2010 10:03 PM
Rob (ourfrenchgarden) said...: Those chives make for a good shot.

The geese have the right idea. Migrate to somewhere warmer for winter.; October 11, 2010 7:19 AM
Marie said...: jane - hm, send a bit in a sandwich?

jvdh - ek het baie geplant, te veel.

Thomas, I did, chop! But I have three more in other pots.

Frank - see above. Tomatoes, yes, I was desperate for something to put in the jam jar.

Rob - yeah, pondering on that right now. Speaking of chives, would love to see some Le Banquet menus :-); October 11, 2010 2:17 PM
Denise said...: Beautiful pics; October 12, 2010 10:09 PM

Manifesto

What is 66 Square Feet About?

It's about gardening in tight spaces. It's about how to live with a man and a cat in a tiny apartment with a tiny terrace. It's about photos, and friends, and inspiration and blackspot on the roses. It's about food and cooking over an open flame. It's about wine. And water. And watering...And picnics. It's about seasons without and within. It's about New York, and about South Africa. It's about where I go, and what I come back to: a terrace twelve-and-three-quarters by five-and-a-quarter feet wide.

Afterwards in the street, she looks around the neighborhood. "Yes, it is certified now."

She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere."

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

"Die kierie kom uit Indonisie, gesny van 'n tak wat van jongs af omslinger was deur a wildevy se rank. Hulle het saam grootgeword, en die rank het sy spoor op die tak gelos. Daarom is die slinger ook oneweredig, en hier,"se hy, "by die punt van die kierie moes daar iets gebeur het - die slinger en die tak het inmekaar gevleg en 'n knoop gemaak. Die natuur het die kierie so gemaak."

"n Kieriemaker sou dit eweredig gedoen het," se ek.

"My kind," se meneer Boje, "vermy die reguit lyn."

Petra Muller, Koendoes