See Previous | See Next Well, thing have been hot and dry, and I was gone for a bit so my garden got really dry. Even still, it’s got some pretty corners to show off here and there. The chokecherries are ripening and the Queen Anne’s lace will always find a way. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows off a lot of lilies (that would like me to water them now, please), but agrees that yes this is…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 29 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… Which was why it took her far too long to realize that she smelled roses. By the time she did realize it, it was too late; one of gran-Tom’s tentacles was…
See Previous | See Next Sorry! No Garden Snapshot for this week, as I am away! To make up for it, here are the snapshot sets from this week in some years past. (There’s a bit of a daisies theme…) 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 28 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… “Here.” Gran-Tom held out one of those clawed hands now, one of the older, cracked tea-cups held in it. “Drink this to soothe your throat. I know now what the problem…
See Previous | See Next The summer is speeding by so fast. Already we have reached the time of tiger-lilies and raspberries. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows off a scrumptious mix of summer delights. And looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years lets us admire spring irises and summer lilies at the same time, though they otherwise will not meet. …This week my garden is starting to get the hang of this summer thing.
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 27 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… Gran-Tom had said she’d start teaching her to sing last night, and she probably had (based on the feeling when Mina tried to swallow), but Mina couldn’t remember any of it,…
In honor of the season of cotton-flying-everywhere, here is a picture I took a month ago. Because it was only a month ago that I realized that this town I’ve been living in for 20 years has trees that bloom with lots of pretty white flowers (that sort of look like cotton fluff, but are not cotton fluff, because they’re pretty flowers).
So, last year I was on a small team at work that won one of my company’s annual recognition awards. Which should be at least a small ‘Yay!’ But, the circumstances of the win were such that it actually just made me kind of annoyed, and that flipped the switch in my brain that goes into rant mode. For some reason, the rant that came out was formatted as an explanatory rant to my TaeKwonDo Instructor, even though he had…
See Previous | See Next We had a little rain, so that was nice. And now it’s hot again. So, my garden’s gone a little bit feral. Never-the-less, I’ve got my beautiful, yellow evening primroses blooming abundantly, plus also a new rose that hasn’t bloomed in my garden before. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a bit of a reminder that, yes, the best blooms happen (and linger longer) when things are not quite so hot! (But it…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 26 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… Mina shuddered, almost choking on her fish and earning an alarmed look from Hedwin as a thought came to her: What if the humming was all acolytes were allowed to start…