Matt's helping build a straw house!

Our intrepid poet has signed on to help with this remarkable house in Clemson, which still needs its clay surface and a lot more work, but which has us all impressed. It's earth-tone (my favorite) but extremely green! This volunteer work gives the Rensing Center some outreach points, and Matthew some new skills to add to his already substantial arsenal. Bravo!

Martha's Night-blooming Cereus

The sprawling, improbable, very forgiving plant fulfills itself every summer when the flowers explode in huge splashy dinner-plate-size blooms that collapse by morning. This one is at home in a pot Jamie threw in the early '80s, and has been a member of the family that long. The first twig came from Martha Dunigan, a marvelous artist and teacher whose green thumb left us this legacy and many a fine memory...we stayed with her for years at the annual PCI show in Winston Salem, NC.

This is my favorite kind of immortality. I hope the Rensing Center adopts such resilience!