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necessity of mustard

April 18, 2011

“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not [...]

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birdsong

April 8, 2011

The dawn chorus is raucous at my father’s. The birds all wake up between 5:46 and 5:48 and start to sing like mad.

A friend sent this beautiful song about Janis Joplin:

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Springland…

April 5, 2011

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horticultural differences?

April 1, 2011

My garden as I left:
My stepmother’s garden this morning:
In New Hampshire today it’s supposed to snow six to ten inches on top of this:
Here is what the English “snow” that’s falling looks like when it hits the ground:

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Spring?

March 22, 2011

Yeah, right.
But we did have visitors in the yard at dusk last night. The fourth one, the largest, was camera shy, though he hung around a while. Hard for them to slog through snow this late in the year, as it is for us.

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Spring!

March 20, 2011

The first day of spring has arrived, on the calendar anyway, and this is my garden:
This is my father’s garden, a few days ago already:

We are going east to find spring, and my father’s garden.

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The story of winter

March 5, 2011

Okay, sure it was beautiful. Sometimes the sun shone.
Then it snowed.
And snowed some more.
We snowshoed through the woods.
We weren’t alone.
It snowed.
And snowed.
And snowed some more.
And we shoveled a lot.
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold [...]

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glorious afternoon

January 8, 2011

Dig those crazy pitcher plants in the swamp.

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Who lives here?

December 20, 2010

Superman, or some small ice fairy queen? (The word “extrude” thrills me.)

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Two views of the same mountain

December 18, 2010

Which just goes to show that things can look really different depending on where you stand. (Wise nods and mmns and ahs…)

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