Month: January 2020
Flower Gardening Tips
There is still time to plant sweet peas and hardy spring blooming annuals like poppies, cornflowers, larkspur, agrostemma, godetia and California wildflower varieties that like to make growth before the… Read more »
Early Spring Gardening Tips
Nights are really cold, rainy and wintery weather is definitely still with us, but you can tell the days are getting longer. Plum and flowering quince are blooming or budding… Read more »
Water Becoming
Water is only change Still depth in a mountain pool, now a tumble of light and movement slipping over the granite edge crashing downward, blown sideways, making its own weather… Read more »
Vegetable Solace
I am a home gardener in exile, far from my native soil,. I farm in one huge planter long enough to inter both parents end to end, if that were… Read more »
The Lines We Draw
Even after all our careful preparation, planning the perfect home birth: reading, breathing, praying, the baby must come caesarean. We spend hours with the garden fork, crumbling the chocolate soil,… Read more »
Season of the Swarm
Behind the white bucket on which I sit, a beehive is tuning up a whole orchestra of violins. The hum gets louder. The whirling vortex of golden bodies spins faster…. Read more »
Plum Blossom
Again the white foam of plum The clambering spray of clematis along the back fence Seedlings of sweet pea, forgetmenot and columbine, opening its tiny leafy fans. The varied thrush… Read more »
Picking Raspberries on My 60th Birthday
Once I was a raspberry wife. In our own back yard the patch bloomed and fruited. You liked to prune but hated to harvest. Picking raspberries is so sensual: color… Read more »
Mating Season at Puddingstone Dam
Blackbird expands his epaulets, puffs up those otherworldly scarlet blazes edged with bright yellow. Brilliant wing patches slash a window into another technicolor universe. His tiny clawnails grip the stems… Read more »
I Bet the Seeds Came up Last Night
Pea paws thrust baby green fists through tender crust of soil Pak choi, Tiny brassica butterflies , Double winged cotyledons light on the surface tracing loops where the seeds were… Read more »