These irises started blooming about the time the tree peony blossoms died back. Now they’re both faded and the summer flowers are coming on. And peas! I have peas! OK, maybe only enough for one meal if you have a tiny appetite, but these make me happy. They’re bigger than this now and I’ve been [...]
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Can you see me now?
Posted in garden on Jun 3rd, 2010
The first trip I made to the community garden I saw a flock of white birds, with bodies too big and heads too small to be chickens. Guineas! There are at least 6 of them that range through the fields, on the roads, on their neighbor’s lawn. Their area doesn’t seem to include the garden, [...]
Brain chatter – the May edition
Posted in garden, Knitting, Life, Uncategorized on May 26th, 2010
ETA: to add links I was too lazy to do yesterday and clarify a point here and there. It seems like a century since I was last here. ~ The travels for health and pleasure are finished for a while. Jack has been checked out tip to toe and the upshot is he’ll be a [...]
Garden(ers) in waiting
Posted in garden, Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2010
Doesn’t this look like a whole bunch of zombies are just going to rise up and eat your brainz? If you turn you head just so, you’d swear you can see an arm break through the dirt with the fingers stretching up to the sky. Maybe not. Maybe it’s just too many hours in front [...]
Remember this? My Laminaria shawl made last year with Misti Alpaca Lace, 100% Baby Alpaca. Well, look at this: This is from the MOPACA alpaca show that I went to a few weeks ago. I entered Laminaria in their fiber arts competition and it took first place in its category. Second place went to another [...]
Have I mentioned how much I like pansies? They’re the first flowers I buy each spring. I can’t wait to plant them, even if they get buried under 6 inches of snow the day after. They’re easy to care for, always bright and cheerful, come in more colors than daffodils, and a bed of them [...]
What spring looks like
Posted in garden on Mar 20th, 2010
This: and this: and this: and this: Pansies that didn’t make it into their containers. Like Norma, I spent yesterday at our local garden center since it was a warm spring day and my garden fever is at high pitch. While she was buying compost, I limited myself to this year’s supply of garden gloves [...]
The other day I had a bout of spring fever and went out into my patch of garden looking for some early green. I thought I might find some early daffodils foolishly poking up through the February snow. It took some scraping through the mulch but I did find the first green shoots. I covered [...]
R.I.P. Vera
Posted in garden on Jan 22nd, 2010
Local law enforcement officials are reporting the demise of Vera. Friends of this ingénue describe her as pleasing but very quiet and many had trouble remembering their last conversation. All commented on her remarkable beauty, and the tragedy of being cut down in her blossoming youth. At this time, no witnesses to the incident have [...]
It continues gray and gloomy around here at least in the weather area. Snow melt has proceeded to the point that we’re left with dirty piles of gray stuff and mud in the garden, as evidenced by the tracks across the carpet made by the boy cat’s feet. Thanks to the presence of Vera however, [...]
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