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…
Yay! I get to start a new color! …It is also blue. #crossstitching
These stories are all apropos of nothing. I offer them merely for the sort of entertainment one gains from truly random things. 1.1 How I learned coincidences that span the globe are just like other coincidences. So, it happened like this. It was my senior year of college, and someone in my belly-dance class had invited me to tag along to a hafla, which is just Arabic for ‘party’ and was pretty much just a group of other college students…
See Previous | See Next Well, ‘tis the season to go hunting around in the leaf mulch, uncovering the poor tulip shoots all valiantly trying to force their way up to somewhere there’s light! Sometimes one or two other green things gets discovered too, but mostly it’s tulips, erecting dead-leaf tents as their way of shouting, “I’m here! I’m here!” Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a reminder that this time of year can be variable about just…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 11 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 could turn her head now, could look gran-Tom in the eye and see the old priestess’ grin hidden there, even as more kraken tentacles looped down around her shoulders, like…
See Previous | See Next It’s been warm, feeling like spring. The snow finished melting off my white lentin roses (hellebores), and apparently they were even more ready to bloom than the fancy red one up front that’s still working on its buds. All of the sudden, pretty spring flowers! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years doesn’t corroborate the lentin-rose phenomenon, but does agree that hens-and-chicks and maybe some other little things do start peeking out around now. Looking…