{"id":46,"date":"2003-09-27T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-27T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2003-09-27T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-27T15:42:00","slug":"a-greenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"A Greenhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big news that is not about writing: the new greenhouse kit<\/a> is here–four big cardboard cartons lying beside the driveway. I hope this weekend to spread gravel where it is going to sit, and then I can assemble it next Friday or Saturday. The weather forecast is dry, luckily–and the aspens are turning now, streaking the ridges with gold.<\/p>\n

We have always had vegetable and flower gardens. We grow food to eat and some plants just because they are dramatic and drought-resistant (wormwood, various sturdy asters), and we grow some medicinal herbs. Since the greenhouse will not be heated, it will not provide year-around production, I reckon; but it should stretch the season for salad greens, at least.<\/p>\n

This afternoon Mary and I are going to an art auction to benefit the local conservation land trust, which I do support with donations, even though I feel like they tend to ignore this end of the county. Mary is not thrilled about hob-nobbing with the “trophy house” crowd (if that truly is who attends), but I think that we will see at least a few familiar faces from our service on the board of another nonprofit organization a couple of years ago. <\/p>\n

There will be painting demonstrations, which seems weird to me. Can you imagine a writing demonstration? It’s the finished product that matters. (My father, who was a representational painter, would disagree with me on that–but I am not interested in studying another painter’s technique.)<\/p>\n

The art will be primarily representational and\/or “Western,” I suppose, but maybe we’ll find a local version of Robert Bateman<\/a>–someone whose paintings of the natural world are not only superbly executed but also have a sense of Mystery to them. I’ll take the checkbook, set a modest spending limit, and see what happens. <\/p>\n

To use my favorite 19th-century expression, I just need to “see the elephant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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