To me there is something absolutely gorgeous about a late-summer perennial garden. There’s a bittersweetness to it. It has developed character by now…patina. All those spring bloomers that make us so happy happy happy when they first come alive are gone, and there’s not much of the happy happy remaining. The flowers blooming now have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garden’
Let the Verbena Go Wild
Posted in garden, tagged annuals, Berggaten Sage, garden, Iris "Pallida", perennials, salvia, scars, Summer on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Other Quiet Things
Posted in garden, tagged butterflies, garden, quiet on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The butterflies are in the garden. And don’t you think they’re pretty, Reader?
Fifteen Things
Posted in list, tagged bike, Diabetes, funk, garden, golf, Graeters, grammar, high school, ice cream, mice, Scooter on May 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I put on my dog-walking shoes and my foot found a dead mouse nestled in the toe.
I have been in a bit of a funk because I have nothing of consequence to do.
Deb and I both bought new drivers in Denver, and I am finally hitting the ball long and straight off the [...]
I May Join Henry Here for a While
Posted in Blog, tagged cat, garden, rest on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First, You Need Characters
Posted in writing, tagged garden, mother, novel, weather on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some weather blew in last night. A dusting of snow covers the garden where only yesterday I stood coatless with the cat and marveled that the peonies are poking up. And when the cat and I went on our little yard walk into the woods, we also discovered that those little yellow flowers (whose name [...]
Things to Look Forward To
Posted in Domestic, tagged benches, garden, global warming on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Global warming has its upside. Take yesterday, for instance. I worked coatless in the garden clearing out the annuals and cutting back the perennials…and, yes, they are already growing again. Poking around at the base of the perennials is one of my life’s annual pleasures…realizing the flowers don’t stop just because I can’t see what [...]
