Gifts from the garden
The News Review:
- Gifts from the garden
- Feeling right at home
- Analyzing the 3-Year-Old Scene in 2004
Gifts from the garden
Fredericksburg.com – Dec 25, 2004
One can make the list as long as one wishes without exhausting what exists in the garden, for it is a living thing with lessons to teach and gifts to give if we open ourselves to its blessings. Most of us no longer rely on gardens to produce food for our families, though we may grow a few vegetables. Home-grown tomatoes are so tasty, welcome and easy to grow that many consider them a garden necessity. The taste of a home-grown tomato, plucked ripe from the vine, may sour one forever for the cardboard texture, lack of juice and dull red of the supermarket tomato. It may even embolden us to try growing essentials such as basil, rosemary, chives, parsley, all difficult to find in the supermarket, and seldom fresh when they are found. Certainly, taste is one gift the garden showers us with. Hand in hand with that gift is beauty, probably the first gift we think about when we consider gardening…
Most of us no longer rely on gardens to produce food for our families, though we may grow a few vegetables. Home-grown tomatoes are so tasty, welcome and easy to grow that many consider them a garden necessity. The taste of a home-grown tomato, plucked ripe from the vine, may sour one forever for the cardboard texture, lack of juice and dull red of the supermarket tomato. It may even embolden us to try growing essentials such as basil, rosemary, chives, parsley, all difficult to find in the supermarket, and seldom fresh when they are found. Certainly, taste is one gift the garden showers us with. Hand in hand with that gift is beauty, probably the first gift we think about when we consider gardening. Beauty is served up in many courses during the growing season, and even now is a constant gift to those of us who cherish the garden in all seasons.
Feeling right at home
Roanoke Times – Dec 25, 2004
If the state’s two Division I-A schools could corral most of the home-grown talent, so the theory went, there would be enough good players to sustain both programs. Almost without notice, that day may have arrived this year. In its most recent issue, the ACC Sports Journal looked at the 78 players who made first- or second-team All-ACC or who received honorable mention. Twenty of those players went to high school in Florida, 17 were from Virginia and there were no more than eight players from any other state. Of the 17 players from Virginia, 15 play for either Tech or UVa.
Analyzing the 3-Year-Old Scene in 2004
BloodHorse – Dec 25, 2004
A sad epilogue for sure. And what ever happened to Louisiana Derby (gr. II) winner Wimbledon and Florida Derby runner-up Value Plus?ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME The Derby arrival of Wood Memorial winner. Dickinson also brought with him Guinness beer and eggs, a daily staple for Tapit, and a humidifier and air purifier that he installed in the colt’s stall…
Dickinson also brought with him Guinness beer and eggs, a daily staple for Tapit, and a humidifier and air purifier that he installed in the colt’s stall. IS NOTHING SACRED? Imagine Bob Baffert and Nick Zito both getting fired by owners months apart. Baffert got canned by Jim MacIngvale, despite winning the Louisiana Derby with Wimbledon and the San Fernando (gr. II) with During, while Zito got the axe from Buckram Oak Farm, despite a win and second (beaten a head in the grade II Swale Stakes) with Eurosilver, winner of the previous year’s Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (gr.