Opinion

No fruit on your tomato plants? Blame it on the weather. Tomatoes thrive in warm sunny conditions; but temperature extremes can prevent otherwise healthy plants from setting fruit.

This week is a follow-up to my search for the perfect summer salad. Apparently, in a parallel world, there is also the search for the perfect dessert.

I’ve seen old movies where the application of perfume is described as a quick spritz into the air after which the wearer walks through this gentle cloud. I experienced something like this scenario just last week. The perfume was the smell of recently cut alfalfa. I was driving into work and saw evenly spaced rows of the scent-maker in the distance. I cracked the windows and let the memory-making stuff flow into my nose and mind. It was like I was somewhere else, but somewhere good.