A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Gertrude Stein Well, I will be excited if this veggie garden grows nothing but vegetables, since the squirrels stole my string partitions, that I measured and laid out carefully, and…
May 23: Rivers after rain
“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It’s always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as…
May 22: Patiently waiting
“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” ― Fulton J. Sheen Each year I have patiently waited for the leaves on this tree to slowly unfurl, one by one, weeks after…
May 21: More spring flowers
“New day, new hopes, new life!!” ― Lailah Gifty Akita More new life, indicating the change of season. All washed and clean after the rain! New life is so exciting, and never gets old, year after year. In fact, as I get older it gets more and more exciting! Maybe I just notice the small…
May 20: Sparkling pool…at last!
“The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture.” ― Elisabeth Beazley, Designed For Recreation: A Practical Handbook For All Concerned With Providing Leisure Facilities In The Countryside…