Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in garden on Mar 20th, 2010
This:
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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 and pansies for the [...]
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 [...]
This was yesterday morning around 8 am looking north from our deck. I should be able to see the small pond and other homes where that indistinct patch of white is. Instead it’s pretty much fog and mist, mist and fog. Since socked-in fog doesn’t happen all that often here I’m not tired of it [...]
Posted in garden on Feb 10th, 2009
For my friends in the frozen North, evidence that spring follows winter….
Awake thou wintry earth-
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn”
