"Maypole" Columnar Apple Tree in Bloom on the Rooftop Garden 124 Merton Street in May 2011 The song, "It's a long, long time from May to December", chronicles the stages of…
Vivian Reiss's bedroom: where she dreams her dreams Read this article on the Globe and Mail website By DEIRDRE KELLY From Saturday's Globe and Mail For the last 25 years,…
The invitation to my birthday party read, "To v. or not to v.?" That is the question. Come to a birthday party to celebrate my birth, rebirth and the birth…
If you think; " a new broom sweeps clean," is a refreshing adage, you have no idea of how the concept of getting to the root of my garden's suffocation and plague is…
Last year my boulevard garden yielded, as far as I know, 100% of Canada's cotton crop. Continuing my quest to live off the land in the city and grow "wearables"…
New article on me in the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/article/932594--artist-in-residence-vivian-reiss Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss - thestar.com Outside, it is your standard, upscale red brick Annex house. Inside, it could be…
Buying groceries at the local supermarket named Starfish, I was also perusing the aisles for local fare. The only thing I came up with were basketfuls of tubers; tania, local sweet potatoes and…
Touring Hungary, several years ago, I had to laugh as we passed Lake Balaton. Even being used to flowery Hungarian exaggerations, the fact that Hungary is a landlocked nation, and that Lake Balaton is the…
Years ago, I went to a garage sale and loaded a cardboard box with old kitchen gadgets, pots, pans, and even an old oil tin from the basement of the sale. …