Are you missing your lush green lawn as the barren winter months come calling our names?  Perhaps there’s a way you can pretend you’re back in the warm sunshine, feeling lovely grass on your bare feet.  From Inhabitat comes a sod covered dining room table,

The farm-to-table is made from aluminum with sturdy square legs and a tray-like table top. Stones sit at the bottom, which is topped with soil and finally a layer of sod. Watering the sod is done by hand and drains down into the stones. Sunlight, irrigation and interior climatic conditions all determine the status of your table. Unfortunately, no table-sized lawn mower exists, so cutting of the grass is all done by hand with scissors.

Brilliant!

Photo by Dave DeHetre.

I don’t know why this video is so fascinating, but it is. Spider web holding the leaves up, you think?

Happy weekend!

We are limited only by our own imagination.  This has been proven by artists, composers, architects, and now… gardeners.  Actually the artist may be insulted for me to call him “gardener” but Marinus Boezem planted De Groene Kathedraal (The Green Cathedral) in 1987.  Today – with just four years to go to reach full growth – it’s stunning.  From Architizer Blog,

Yet, whereas at Reims, the plan is, in fact, the generator of complex primary and secondary geometry and structure, the Green Cathedral simply, if intentionally, embodies its diagrammatic nature. Inlaid stone marks the crossing of groin vaults on the ground, inscribing the lawn with the means of projection for the sky above. The trees, which will never converge to roof the nave below, will eventually die and rot, giving way to a vast field of trunks.

Stunning.  Click through to see all the photos!

This makes me want to stick with the manual push mowers without even a small engine!

Happy weekend!

Photo by Mike Baird.

Photo by Just CinMD.

We have the worst soil in my yard.  For me to successfully grow my own vegetables, I’ll have to go the “raised garden” route made from compost by using other nutrient-enriched soil.  Plus the deer, rabbits, squirrels, and other hungry critters will have to be kept away.

Sometimes even when all that happens, the garden may still produce a disappointing harvest.  Being Frugal talks about how to deal with this type of harvest – and actually takes the cup half full approach!

Perhaps it was the stress of this underwhelming produce yield, but I felt compelled to mull this matter over some fried food and a beer, pub-style.

And then it hit me, I had exactly what I wanted right in my farm basket… for a perfect plate of pub food.

I sliced the woody cucumber up, and dropped it in a big bowl of iced saltwater to take the bitterness out. (It did nothing for the woody skin, but it wasn’t too bad, and I could have cut it off).

Add fried green tomatoes and fried green beans and the feast was complete!  Kudos to Jessica for her inventiveness!

Photo by Girl Interrupted Eating.

Early this morning, I found my flag and walked up my driveway to display it. On Friday, I helped City Hall lower it’s U.S. flag to half-mast.

In Ohio, 10,000 people saw this patriotic display commemorating the 10th anniversary of the day burned in the national memory of a people united.

We remember.

Photo by Norman Kent via the Daily Mail.

Photo by Tatiana Gerus.