Picture of the Week

  Right now, the gardens surrounding the Museum of the American Indian are full of tall amaranth. Their tasseled heads wave in the breeze. L...

  If these sunflowers were children, their parents would be so proud. They would have made marks on the door frame noting their height as th...

  In every season, I walk past the community garden. Right now, everything is lush and green. Impossibly tall sunflowers wave in the breeze....

  All was green under the sheltering limbs of a tree on the grounds of Monticello. Although it does not date all the way back to the time of...

  Just down the street, foundations have been dug for three houses. Trucks have delivered lumber and a rocky temporary driveway has been lai...

  At the height of summer, the tables at the farmers market are piled high with produce. The peppers are especially inviting, shiny and volu...

  I could hear a low buzz as I approached the tall clump of wild bergamot swaying in a nearby front yard. Several varieties of bees worked g...