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Month: May 2024

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 19

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 19

See Previous | See Next Plenty of rain this week, in fits and starts, and my garden has been blooming, not in fits-and-starts but in a very pretty procession that means this week I get to add chokecherry blossoms and irises to my pretty pictures. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is definitely a sea of white with some purple and blue mixed in.  (And yes, my tulips are blooming right now, too – other flowers are just blooming…

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SSCS 02: Installment 20 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 20 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 20 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And she still didn’t know how to calm the sea.  She just fetched when gran-Tom said to fetch, and swept and cooked and cleaned up after the pigs likewise, so that…

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Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 18

Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 18

See Previous | See Next My garden is decked in blooms from head to toe (or lilacs to creeping veronica, according to my pictures here)!  Of course, my phlox still seems to be of two minds about bloom time, and my chokecherry shrubs seem to be planning a dramatic entrance sometime soon – more blooms to come! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years looks like all sorts of beautiful purple and white flowers have conspired to show off last…

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SSCS 02: Installment 19 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 19 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 19 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… This time, though, when gran-Tom reached out her tentacles, they wrapped around Mina’s wrist, hard and cold, and the warped voice that hissed from her shell-thin lips made a shudder of…

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