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Rapunzel, or: Faerie Tale Theatre vs. The Big Flower Fight

Rapunzel, or: Faerie Tale Theatre vs. The Big Flower Fight

Alright, for this post, I really want to tell you about this awesome Netflix show called The Big Flower Fight. But first, I also need to tell you about how much I love the fairytale “Rapunzel”.  It’s possible that this will turn mostly into a post about fairytales (in their moving-picture incarnations), but I’m hopeful I’ll be able to stay on track enough to also tell you about The Big Flower Fight.  Stay tuned. So, “Rapunzel.”  Classic, famous fairytale.  It’s…

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Roses Round-up 2025

Roses Round-up 2025

So! November has come and it is time for the Showing of the Roses! This was a really weird year for my garden.  It started with a positively luxuriously wet spring, wherein simply everything was green.  But that then evolved into the usual Hot and Dry Summer, which was further compounded by my being away and not watering for large swaths of that time.  And then we’ve had an exceptionally mild fall, but I think most of the plants were…

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Roses Round-up 2024

Roses Round-up 2024

Alright!  It’s November, which means that (at least theoretically) all of the roses that were going to bloom in my garden have done so, and now I get to show them off.  If it sounds like I’m a kid showing off their Christmas presents, that’s because I do quite love my roses (definitely more than my gardening skills warrant).  These aren’t exactly prize-winning flowers, but I’m going to show them to you anyway! Before I begin, though, I have to…

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MT Mountain Wildflowers

MT Mountain Wildflowers

This post is mostly just going to be pretty pictures.  This summer, we went on an overnight backpacking trip with my dad in the Bitterroot mountains in Montana, on the trail up toward Glen Lake.  My dad remembered the trail as very forested, but since he’d been there last, wildfire had gone through and taken out nearly all the trees.  So, instead of a shady forest, we had a very sunny trip, with lots and lots of wildflowers.

Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS02 – How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters

Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS02 – How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters

Last year, after I had finished posting all of the installments for my first SSCS (Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory),I put up a post talking about different aspects of the story and/or the writing process, in the same vein as the pieces authors sometimes do when, for example, they’re doing a blog tour to promote their new book. Now that all of the installments have been posted for my most recent SSCS, How to Catch…

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purple irises
Irises Roundup 2024

Irises Roundup 2024

I may have lots and lots of roses (that bloom sometimes), but did you know I also have lots and lots of irises (that bloom sometimes)!  Like roses, irises are decadently beautiful, come in so many colors and varieties, and (traditionally) smell heavenly.  (Also like roses, many of the newer, frillier varieties don’t have very much scent, but so it goes.) The season for irises is shorter than for roses, and also earlier, which means that all of my irises…

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fly-by-posting: 2024/06/27 (w/pic)

fly-by-posting: 2024/06/27 (w/pic)

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).