my friend michele’s garden is providing lots of fodder lately.  it is a completely unique micro-climate: a northern urban garden, in the alley behind her hair salon, up against the enormous south facing brick wall of an abandoned movie theater.  that wall provides such a large heat reflector, and heat sink, that it creates a mini Mediterranean climate in the heart of Northeast Minneapolis: hot, lush, and heaped with inspiration.

michele’s garden in mid-september

foiled again salon, northeast minneapolis