Sunday, August 26, 2007

Neighborhood Love

Last week we were thrilled to come home to find this lovely note tied to one of our flower bins. We have to tell you that made our week. One note like this makes up for anything the Grumple could ever do! The note was from a girl who is doing some guerrilla gardening around some trees in the upper haight! She gave us some seeds (thanks!) and had a couple questions about what we did to prep soil around the trees were planted. So over the next few weeks we will try to post our guide to guerrilla gardening in San Francisco! We are by no means experts. But we have figured a couple things out over the last two years. Hopefully some of it will be useful to others. This was the real reason we started this blog so it is about time we go to it.

Before we start our "how to" posts we wanted give some love to the neighborhood.
I took a quick walk around the block with my digital camera and found lots of trees that other people are taking care of. And what's even better Friends Of The Urban Forest has just planted a bunch more trees on Church between Market + Duboce and at Fillmore and Herman.
Whats more - some flickr love was just reflected back at us from a woman who passes by our place! We really believe that outward expressions of love no matter how small reflect and reverberate thruought the universe. They effect others in ways that you never imagine when you start!

Love and Light


Thanks to everyone for all the love they give!

ChinaCat Sunflowers

One of the things we were most proud of growing this year were these sunflowers.
Unfortunately it looks like a car door knocked them over. We were able to salvage them and they are in a lovely vase in our apartment. I am always amazed by what you can grow with a little love. These brought us lots of enjoyment!

China Cat Sunflower is a song by the Grateful Dead.
China is our Cat