Each year Steve Turner, who runs Trinity Church's Food Pantry, has a note card made from a parishioner's photograph to benefit the pantry, which has been serving the CWE for over 30 years. It was timely, and as it turns out quite touching, that Steve asked textile artist Marjorie Hoeltzel, who volunteered at the Food…
Recycled Xmas trees as shelter
Each year after the holidays we take our Christmas tree to the Muny lot in Forest Park to be recycled into mulch. We recently discovered that for 26 years (where have we been?) the Missouri Department of Conservation has found another creative use for some of the trees. As shown in the photo above, they…
Bonsai for Beginners
Whenever I travel to San Francisco I'm tempted to come home with a bonsai from a farmer's market, where there is usually a table full of them. But traveling with the plant, to say nothing of not knowing what to do with it next, always stops me in my tracks. Attending the "Bonsai for Beginners"…