See Previous | See Next All the green shoots coming up in my garden! Iris leaves and tulip shoots and daffodils! My red lentin roses are always so nice and healthy, but a lot more of my garden is still so dry that the other hellebores are struggling. But, that’s not stopping everything else, and this year SO many tulips (maybe) – if I can just get them water. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years say that buds on…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 14 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Her body has already turned thin as starlight. When the ice block catches her, it shears through her like starlight, flinging her bright and outward and everywhere…
I have recently completed the latest cross-stitch I’ve been working on, a pattern published in 2000 by one of my favorite designers, Nora Corbett of Mirabilia Designs, whose designs are always oh-so eye catching. This one is called Scent of Old Roses, and yes, the title was definitely one of the reasons I just couldn’t resist it. Though another reason was the somewhat understated website photo, which, as you will see, doesn’t quite capture the quite glittery effect of the…
See Previous | See Next I’ve got flowers! The crocuses and the crazy red alien tulips actually decided to show up at the same time. (These were surprise tulips planted by the previous owners. As you can see, they bloom very early, but also, in the bright sun, they open almost flat, quite unlike tulips as I previously understood them.) Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is quite the advertisement for the consistency of these tulips. Otherwise, it suggests…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 13 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… There is no frog-song. But there is bewitchment in the scent of this thing that has been lost for so long. Beneath the leaves of ruby-petaled flowers,…
See Previous | See Next Last week I complained about the lack of snow, so this week we did get a tiny dusting, which tried (valiantly) and failed to make last year’s garden scruff look elegant and white-edged. Once it disappeared the garden was back to looking brown from a distance, but showing creeping green and more and more tulip shoots in the close-ups. (Update: Well, Sunday night it really did snow (see inset), much more effectively (~4 inches?) and…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 12 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And far away. Far, far away. The desert draws back from the valley by a breath, by the thickness of a millimeter and the width of a…
See Previous | See Next This week the state of my garden has mostly tended toward windy and dry. Though March is historically the snowiest month in Colorado, we’ve had very little so far, with only a bare smidge of rain sprinkled on top of that. Never-the-less, the tulips and the hellebore buds press their quiet way upward through the leaf litter. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years, suggests that crocuses too may soon be coming our way. Looking…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 11 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And then another sound sings across the plain. That sheet of swirling rocks that has neither up nor down but only inward shudders once in time with…
I am an introvert, and I like to travel. I also have anxiety, though, so those first two traits don’t always go together as well as you might like. I also like to go for walks (less scary). As a happy traveling/walking introvert, I was once asked by a friend of mine who is not an introvert what did I do while I was walking. She was baffled at how I would sometimes walk the two miles from campus to…