My morning constitutional. The light is a dull ache but my heart is like the crisp red leaves of a Japanese maple pulsing in the gray dawn. I am wearing my favorite socks a wildly patterned pair, with bright colors, and my brown birk sandals. My pants are midnight blue and my shirt October blue [...]
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Picture Perfect Day
Posted in Cool Things, garden on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Long Productive Day
Posted in animals, garden on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wake at 6am. I lie there for a while and decide it is time to get up. I close my eyes and fall back asleep; in my dream I was riding a bike downhill while juggling an empty glass vase which turned into a phone that was ringing in my hand. I open my eyes and ….in [...]
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 [...]
Jack and the Tomato Stalk
Posted in garden on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or the alternate title could be “Shubbery!” or even “HOLY SH__ those tomatoes are big”. Corey, my best friend’s man is the container gardening king. His blueberries are rippening, his potatoes are should height, albeit in pots that start at the knees. Yes his peppers are gigantic too, but his tomatoes are a wall, a [...]
Red Raspberries
Posted in garden on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The sun is shining and after two days of it the red raspberries are starting to ripen. The long slender and lithe brambles bending down and touching the earth with the weight of the red berries. I pick off a handful and eat them, checking each one carefully for a worm. I have found only a [...]
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 [...]
In the Garden of Good and Evil
Posted in garden, nature on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So what is good and what is evil. Is there a continuum of good and evil like a number line? Is there infinite evil and infinite good?
I mow my lawn, for the first time this year starting up the gas mower my brother gave me. I want the grass that has been missed by the [...]
Peaceful Contemplation
Posted in Flowers, garden on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Early morning again. I keep going to bed really tired, completely exhausted by 9 and then getting up like a shot at 6. I was always an 11 pm to 8ish sleeper. Must have something to do with the joy of being in my forties, wrinkles and pimples. Among other odd body changes…somehow my hips look [...]
This is my heart
Posted in Flowers, Shrubbery, garden on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Somewhere along the line I had become an exhibitionist. Not in the sense of taking off my clothes but in the sense of trying to show off myself. It was not a helpful thing to do and was a practice of displaying the ego. Like a peacock, pompous arrogant but somehow false. I am not [...]
