Already we are in the last week of the first quarter. I have a wonderful group of kiddos this year – curious, energetic, and engaged. Not perfect (what class is?) but so willing to try, to try again, and to bravely keep trying even when they are clearly struggling. They are not struggling though – […]
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What’s in the Garden
I haven’t done a post like this in years! Right now I am limited in mobility to areas closest to the house, and only when others are nearby to assist. But Grant is working hard to change this! Here is a small photo essay about what’s going on in the ornamental garden closest to the […]
Today’s Garden Tour
It’s raw, unedited, and not sure how much will make sense, but decided to try a quick video after I watered the garden this morning. Taking it easy today… will do more garden tasks tomorrow!
Today in the Garden…
Tom, Grant, Allison, (and I), and Wally worked to get the area by the fish pond, under the peach and through to the chestnut cleared out a bit and ready for the hammock. Also got a bit of pruning on the apple tree and ceanothus — not usually done this time of year, but they […]
Growing Up, Growing Older, Growing Wiser: Growing
I have always been a gardener, I think — I love to be IN gardens, I love to TALK “gardens,” and I love to CREATE gardens. There is a strange shift, however, when one moves away from “gardens” with annuals and shorter-lived perennials to plants that could conceivably be enjoyed by people two or three […]
Wally pics
No need for words, but this is Wally, now settled in and enjoying life with us after four months. He is now four months away from being two!
NaPoWriMo Twenty-eighth Post
The rain gently washing the new-bought gravel ready for the paths and the patios gray as clouds and varied as the blooms on springtime trees. The rain, gently falling anoints the geriatric maples the fecund lilacs and all the ornamental filigree. The rain, again and again first rainbow then shadow and shade with golden edges. […]
NaPoWriMo Fifth Post
Hundreds of miles from home I am home again with my grandfather walking the streets past the bookstores and ice cream parlor past the little shops and around the park Home again with my grandfather When I am with my grandfather, I am home. More NaPoWriMo poetry can be found at the website.
Today in the Garden (Reviving a Series)
I used to try to post a little something from our yard once a week, and whenever new things “popped up.” But after the loss of our home it was too hard to keep ahead of much. I think we have turned a corner this year. At least, I have, and so here for your […]
Decades
I remember the first time I started really thinking in terms of DECADES. Our elder son was about ten. Off the cuff, I mentioned something that had happened about 15 years before. It was his first true realization that there had in fact been “life” before him… And it was my first recognition that I […]