Suzan Bellincampi
Eat your greens.
Good advice for health and for taste. I can’t get enough greens, ever! Bring on the kale, collards, spinach and lettuce of all sorts.
There is one lettuce that you might have overlooked. Sea lettuce is a succulent slice of photosynthetic goodness, available for the taking and tasting.
It is a dirt-y word.
Gardeners, landscapers and lawn care professionals, hold your ears (or close your eyes, in the case of this article), I am going to say it. Crabgrass.
Crabgrass is the archnemesis of those that seek a perfect lawn or weed-free garden. Instead of “Get off the grass,” they just want it to get out of the grass.
I would like a word with wind.
Or maybe a few words with wind. Windfall, windburn and windmill would all fit the bill.
Wordsmithing aside, the winds that were whipping last weekend during Hurricane Earl were simply not that worrisome. Hurricane Earl was a bust, but with wind you never know if it will be wild, winsome or wimpy.
Martha’s Vineyard is a great place to make your last stand.
We have almost everything that one would need — food, water, space and shelter. But if you are an insect, the best thing that the Island has going for it is what didn’t happen here — widespread DDT spraying and the introduction of a predatory parasitoid fly.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
And this news that I needed to deliver was particularly bad. A phone call from an unnamed couple somewhere on Martha’s Vineyard (the reason for anonymity will soon be clear) asked if they could bring in an insect for me to identify. They feared the worst, believing that they knew what they had in their glass jar, and were looking for confirmation of their suspicions.
In this case, being right was all wrong.
“NO ONE ALIVE WILL EVER SEE THIS,” screamed the subject line in all capital letters.
Don’t believe the hype. Though this title sounds as if it is forecasting a very exciting occurrence, I can assureyou that it is just hoax-us pokus.