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Your Small Kitchen Garden Visits the Philadelphia Flower Show
March 21, 2011 | 
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Not surprisingly, there were a whole bunch of flowers at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Lighting at the show made it hard to shoot properly-exposed photos without resorting to flash–which, of course, usually resulted in mediocre contrast.While things were quiet in my small kitchen garden in early February, I visited the Philadelphia Flower Show. Shot a lot of photos, trying to capture the beauty of the show while working around at least 300 million people who were enjoying the exhibits. OK, I didn’t count the people, but there were enough to make navigating the show floor slow going.
The Photo Saga
Immediately after the show, I selected a set of photos to share with readers of my blog. I edited a few for size and uploaded them to my account at www.flickr.com. Then I spent well over an hour adding tags, titles, and descriptions to the photos.
As I annotated one of the last photos, I pressed the backspace key, and this somehow closed the photo management page in Flickr, discarding all my work. I spread the task of recreating that work across many days, and finally I’ve finished! The slideshow below shows a lot of what I liked at the show, though there were many more exhibits I’d also recommend.
The slide show includes comments about the photos. To view them, first click the full screen icon and in the resulting display, click the Show info option that appears near the top-right in the slide show window. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think. Did you get to a flower or garden show this past winter?
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Honest Scrap from Your Small Kitchen Garden
I was surprised recently by my garden blogging friend, punkrockgardens, when she awarded Your Small Kitchen Garden an “Honest Scrap” award. More correctly, I guess, the award was for me.
Recipients of the Honest Scrap award are supposed to reveal ten truths about themselves, and then extend the award to seven other bloggers. As a blogger, I tend to focus on “how-to” topics that reveal little about me personally… and almost nothing beyond my garden and my kitchen. So, this Honest Scrap award is license for me to share stuff that has no natural place in Your Small Kitchen Garden blog.
In other words, if you want gardening, please read the other posts in my blog. If you’re here for random, useless factoids about a kitchen gardener, here they come!
My grandmother’s suitcase holds enough gear to put on a magic show; it has performed with me since I was a teenager.
From Beyond my Kitchen Garden
- I used to be a member of IBM… the International Brotherhood of Magicians. I did a few “professional” magic shows during my teen years, and I still enjoy doing magic from time-to-time.
- My nickname is Doc. It has many origins not the least of which is my geekiness.
- I very much don’t like being called Dan or Danny. My mom instilled this in me. She insisted she named me Daniel. She also didn’t grock with “Doc.”
- My parents’ depression-era mentality has a big influence on me; I try to do things at low cost and I tend to save stuff that may be useful some day… then I end up buying new stuff because I can’t find the stuff I saved until after I buy new stuff.
- I find it very hard to ask people for help, so I try to do a lot of things myself that I really shouldn’t.
- From about age 11 I’ve felt strongly as though I’m on the wrong planet.
- I really enjoy speaking in front of groups—especially about topics on which I’m well informed.
- In my 20s I decided I would one day have my own pool table. In my late 40s I built a billiards room with a hardwood floor in what used to be a two-car garage. Now that I have a pool table, I never have free time (or does playing pool count as free time?)
- Being a writer has been my most consistent aspiration, starting when I was in 3rd grade.
- I hate how the Internet has devalued writers and promoted hideously poor-quality prose.
The billiards table shortly after it arrived. Sadly, that wet bar to the right is still dry; it’s hard to finish building a billiards room once the billiards table is in place… whenever you have time to work on the room, there’s that table ready for a game.
My chosen recipients for Honest Scrap awards are people whose blogs I especially enjoy, and I imagine I’d very much enjoy these people in person. Some write blogs that are so personal, they may be challenged to offer 10 new and different truths. No matter. For each I extend the award with no strings. I read your blogs and tweets cuz I love the honest scrap about which you already write.
Arkie at The Well-Read Gardener
Tags: Your Small Kitchen Garden Promotional Giveaway
You could win a carton containing twelve packs of each of these fruit snacks – 24 packs in total. The text of this article explains how you can submit as many as twelve entries in our drawing.
Your Small Kitchen Garden is having its first ever promotional giveaway. The prize is a carton of individually-packaged servings of freeze-dried fruits. I was able to score several cartons of these treats packaged by Sensible Foods under a label other than their own. Each carton contains 24 snack packages.
There are two varieties of treats: The Fruit Snack at 84 calories per package and the Tropical Snack at 80 calories per package. The Fruit Snack variety contains freeze-dried apples, strawberries, cherries, and blueberries. The Tropical Snack variety contains freeze-dried apples, pineapples, mangos, and bananas. These freeze-dried fruit snacks are delicious and convenient: lightweight and easy to pack. I snack on them often.
While the cartons come packed with only one type of fruit snack, I’ve re-packed three of them for this giveaway so that each has twelve of the Fruit Snack packets and twelve of the Tropical Snack packets.
I’ve seen the Sensible Foods snack packages for $1.50 each on sale at my local grocery store. At that price, this giveaway is worth $36 to each winner. Each winner? Yes! I’m giving away three cartons, so there will be three winners chosen by random number generator from all qualified entries.
You can win only one carton; multiple qualified entries increase your chances of winning, but not of winning more than one carton. Here’s how you might win your own carton of these delicious and healthy dehydrated fruit snacks:
1. Leaving a comment in response to this post equals one entry; multiple comments from the same visitor/email address qualify as a single entry. If you decide to enter according to item 2 (below), the comment you leave for that can qualify as your entry for item 1.
2. Linking to this post from your own blog or web site qualifies as two entries. While welcome, multiple links from the same domain qualify as only two entries. (Please leave a comment here linking to the web page containing your link; I’ll add two entries in your name once I verify the link. If you’re going to link from your web site, the comment leading to your link can qualify for the entry you get under item 1. If that’s confusing, don’t worry about it.)
3. Tweet a link to this post that includes my twitter name @cityslipper (so I can keep track). I’d appreciate multiple tweets, but only one will count as an entry.
4. Visit my other two participating blogs, Your Home Kitchen Garden and Food Dryer Home, where you’ll find similar posts… each of which can earn up to four more entries: One entry for a comment, two entries for a link, and one entry for a tweet.
That’s it! Three cartons of fruit up for grabs, and up to twelve entries available per visitor.
This promotional giveaway ends on Friday, November 6, 2009. My random number generator will select winners on Saturday, November 7 and I’ll post announcements on all three participating web sites.
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