See Previous | See Next Check it out! I have dwarf irises and daffodils blooming! …on the order of 2 of each, but still! More flowers! More flowers are coming! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years really makes it look like this is the season of flowers. (My actual garden may be a bit sparser yet than this would seem to advertise…) Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows the dreaded time of the camera malfunction when I…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 15 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 never mind that when Hedwin ate flying fruit he really did bob around, like the steering mechanism for up and down was something well outside the realm of his control. …
Alright. I think it’s about time I tell you all about what might very well be my very favorite movie: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black, among many other excellent actors. For those, poor souls, who might not be familiar, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle came out in 2017 and is sort-of-a-reboot-of and sort-of-a-sequel-to** 1995’s Jumanji starring Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst. In both Jumanji’s, the premise is a game, which turns itself into a…
See Previous | See Next The very red tulips are here, poking up out of the leaf mulch and opening wide in the sun. I look forward to them, and they are always startling. Also, some of my other scattered hellebores are starting to bloom as well. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows just how very consistent my very-early red tulips like to be, marching in a straight, red line down the years. The crocuses dance around near…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 14 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… She clipped the flowers, one, two, …five, …. Before she could get to the sixth, a quiet, horrible sound reached her, like iron nails dragging along the side of an iron…
See Previous | See Next Well, this week the snow melted, the crocuses and hellebores emerged from beneath it to bloom gleefully, and then it snowed again. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years confirms that it is definitely pretty crocuses season! (And crazy red, front-garden tulips season soon to come!) Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows off a bit of haunting, snowy March symmetry, but also promises that the snow will be giving way to lots of…
One of the nice things about watching clouds move is that it reminds me of Fluid Dynamics…the storms on Jupiter…planet forming nebulae. It connects me with my awe.
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 13 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… A bit like gran-Tom’s – probably the only feature where Mina matched gran-Tom, who was scaly and tentacley and clawed – something mostly from the sea. But maybe she’d been forced…
See Previous | See Next And now is the season for knocking snow off of tree branches with a stick lest they get so bowed down they break – or at least it was, for a day or two there. Snow now starting to melt, but there’s a lot of it. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows almost no concurrence with snow, but rather with hens-and-chicks, and hellebores, and crocuses. Before it snowed, I did spot one crocus…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 12 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… “There are oyster bells blooming in the cliff-cracks on the north side of the spire,” gran-Tom’s musty voice cracked out. “They’ll have to do. And they’ll keep until tomorrow, too, so…