Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Blame it on Insalata Caprese

This is why I keep trying to garden.

Two years ago, I had a bumper crop of Roma tomatoes and so much basil I was leaving pesto on people's doorsteps in the middle of the night. It was a fluke.

I will now be driven every spring to garden, the triumph of hope for insalata caprese over experience.