Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 26
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SSCS 04: Installment 26 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 26 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… The flesh would need to rest, its magic to be let to cure into the magic of the horde (we all), but already Lot could look outward…
Latest Cross-stitch: Lilly of the Woods
Well here is another cross-stitch I recently completed. It’s Lilly of the Woods, by Mirabilia Designs (whose designs I am indeed a bit obsessed with). First, here are a couple ‘glamour’ shots, and then after those I’ll show the sequence of how I stitched this. Here’s some of the stitching-in-progress (amongst my cluttered work area(s)): Also, sometimes the stark contrast of different colors trapped in the hoop just looks kind of nifty: And some close-ups of more-finished sweetness, with and…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 25
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fly-by-posting: 2026/06/21 (w/pic)
Is there such a thing as mass hysteria for flowers? Today I dead-headed my yucca and what should I find: But…the roses have definitely been confused about bloom time this year (and not just in my garden). So, I guess the yucca has decided to join in on whatever that is?
SSCS 04: Installment 25 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 25 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… But San hissed just then, a curse from a millennium gone. “No, we should keep him by us, close and tight. Lot is gone.” “Foolish child,” El…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 24
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which is dry but still green for the time being.)
SSCS 04: Installment 24 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 24 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… When Ki’s magic came down hard on Du, binding him still, blocking the song of the thing that would have fed his hunger, the half-djinn turned with…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 23
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which is now host to 9 new roses! (while temperatures climb…))
SSCS 04: Installment 23 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 23 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Better to wait until there were fewer people, though. Du had drifted away so swiftly, the half-djinn light flaring so bright behind the blacks of his pupils,…