The Dry Garden

Scarecrows

Knightshayes Court in England has an amazing number of scarecrows in the kitchen garden:

The White Rabbit

Alice

The Queen of Hearts

The Cheshire Cat

and bizarrely:

A Scuba Diver

Cookbooks for Gardeners

The Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home is a largely vegetarian cookbook with some fish and seafood recipes. I use it regularly to cook with produce from the garden.  Every recipe I've tried has been simple and the results very satisfactory.

I'd more or less given up the guilty pleasure of buying cookbooks when I read about Nigel Slater's Real Cooking and was intrigued. I am so glad I bought it. The recipes are easy and delicious. I agree with his philosophy that "Good cooking- real cooking- is within the grasp of anyone with an appetite and a few pots and pans."

 

Robert Louis Stevenson State Park Wildflowers and a Maze

In 1880 the writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, spent his honeymoon in a cabin on the side of Mount Saint Helena in what is now Robert Louis Stevenson State Park.  The cabin no longer exists but its site is identified on the trail to the summit. 

These photos are all taken from the Table Rock Trail:

Looking toward Lake County with Wildflowers in the Foreground

  

So Pretty

 
A Late-flowering Manzanita 

 
Chinese Lanterns

 
A View From Our Picnic Spot  

The bushes in the foreground are White Ceanothus and Buckeye, which is a type of Horse Chestnut

 
 The Maze

Someone built a maze by the side of the path.  It's supposed to be good luck to walk round it although I don't know who decided that.