By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer
Let's start with this photo and sweet caption from Tall Clover Farm.
2 bulldogs and tu-lips: Boz & Gracie channel their inner Vermeer
There's reason for some cautious optimism regarding the health of bees, I found out from Valerie Easton's blog Plant Talk. Now if we can just turn the economy around.
And you can grow lettuces in rain gutters. Who knew?
I picked this up from Cindy McNatt's Dirt Dujour blog, and she picked it up from Fern's Life on the Balcony, and Fern found it on Juneau Empire.
Good ideas get around.

