But all it takes is a great photograph of an heirloom sliced neatly, or a splash of color or the promise of huge (or tiny) fruit, and suddenly we’re adding yet another variety of tomato to our garden ...

Approaching Gring’s Mill, Janet saw something in the water. Jim focused his binoculars on a great horned owl face down, dead, in the creek. “At first we thought bird flu,” Jim said ...