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A Morning In May In The Garden

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I’ve never really had a garden before. It has been the missing connection to my knowledge of food…what grows, what dies, what fights to live and what just gives up. It is an interesting observation and humbling to contemplate how trying it must have been to feed your family from the land. How you probably had to have a food network with your neighbors to trade for variety. Here are a few photos from the All Organic plot at Lake Highlands Community Garden…to the pessimist, yes, I know it is May in Texas!!!

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A brand new bloom on the Mammoth Sunflower.

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Zucchini to be.

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Sugar Snap Peas: I love standing there eating them off the vine!

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A baby Sweet Baby Variety watermelon.

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Strawberries!

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Tomatoes.

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Still green…these will turn chocolate in color.

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There are three kinds of lettuce.

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A Hugelkultur mound for strawberries, sedum and flowers to bring in butterflies and bees…with a Happy Buddha on top facing East.

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While watering, I burn incense for blessing the plot.

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A variety of beneficials to keep the butterflies and bees happy.

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A Gulf Fritillary Butterfly to be hanging out on a Passion Flower.

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No more time for writing…back to work…or is it work?!?

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Phebe Phillips, 2021, Podcaster, Cat Lover, Poet, Storyteller

Phebe Phillips is best known for whimsical plush toys that filled the shelves of Neiman Marcus, FAO, and many fine retailers for 25-years. Today, she creates The Literary Catcast Podcast—dedicated to the preservation of vintage books and writings with cats as main characters, bringing them into the modern awareness of a podcast. She writes poetry and short essays for publication in journals. She has two upcoming books, Sleeping With Louie—a daughter’s soul journey as an only child of a mother with Borderline Personality Disorder, who was also an only child, and Upper East Side of The Pines—growing up in East Texas during the sweetness of the 1960s. She is married to Mac. They live with six cats! For now, they live in Dallas, Texas until they move deep into the East Texas piney woods in 2022.

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