He is this adorable little child. His teacher calls him Charlie Brown. But he isn’t Charlie Brown, he is something else. I don’t see him as hapless or pathetic and sometimes Charlie Brown really kind of is. He is all boy. In every way. He fits the stereotype of a boy too. He will not [...]
Archive for the ‘Flowers’ Category
Signs of Affection
Posted in Flowers, Gratitude on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lo’ How a Rose
Posted in Flowers on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My single rose bush blooms despite my deep and unabiding neglect. Really. There is a woman who has a glorious rose garden about two miles from my house, I see her working in it, I see it wrapped in burlap for winter. I do nothing. And yet, my rose abides. My best friend the plant [...]
Light glorious
Posted in Flowers, Gratitude, Knitting, garden on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It must have been clearing the clutter that made the garden so utterly beautiful in the rich afternoon sunlight. I took my knitting out onto the front porch, I also took my camera. It wasn’t long before I was noticing how enticingly lovely eggplant flowers are. I looked out onto my newly groomed garden and my [...]
I tell Paul this morning that I have posted about him on my blog. He says he hopes I said something nice, of course I say. His wife is a Buddhist and he shows me her picture, she looks familiar. Joe drives me crazy, preaching the gospel. Paul says we sound like an old married [...]
Bee Tree
Posted in Bees, Flowers, trees on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The air is filled with a “heady” scent. The perfume that reminds me of honey fills the air. I breathe it in. I notice the tiny yellow flowers that fill the branches of the tree. Then I notice a buzzing sound. I look up into from the base of the tree to the top, it [...]
Boys are Stupid
Posted in Flowers on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am headed home from an intense walk, the sun is hot and the wind is the only thing that has made it bearable. On the first leg of the walk, I get to enjoy the lacrosse players getting ready for a tournament at SU, I have to take an alternate route because they are using [...]
Summer Reads
Posted in Flowers, animals on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So far this summer I have read completely several books. My current bedside book is called The Animal Dialogues Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs. This is a book of essays about wildlife the author has encountered in his treks through several wilderness areas in the United States. He recommends reading a small amount [...]
Walking in the Sun
Posted in Flowers, Gratitude, Medicinals, birds on July 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
At last the sun has come out in full force and finally I can feel the warmth of it on my skin, the force of it in my bones, the lightness of it in my being. I had begun to feel a downward spiral into a darkness of self that was not good. I wake [...]
Green and Purple.
Posted in Flowers on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has rained so much this spring, it has reached a point of enough already, at least for this human being. The plants however are pretty happy. I have never seen the lavendar in my garden so wonderfully healthy and bright. I love lavendar the way it smells, not like pine, but like some earthy [...]
Genetic Variation in the Garden
Posted in Flowers, garden on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have this plant that I have posted pictures of previously called evening lichness. It is a bright pink hot fuschia really flower on a soft fuzzy pale almost whitish green but almost blue stem. I am intrigued this evening by the interesting genetic variation that has taken place in my garden. This plant has [...]
