Uncategorized 19:03
The pond in the woods is lovely, dark and deep water stilled at dusk. And the trees speak in the dying wind when the sun sinks beneath the hills. What more in the end is there to life but the good, growing land and the clear water? Without that. Nothing.
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gardening 16:07
As always, the first crocus are a brave few popping up by the south end of the west porch where the stones are. Never underestimate the power of a micro climate created by solar gain on rock. You can fiddle the growing season’s length by an easy month plus that way. Now, what you can’t do is change the temperature extremes all that much. So you aren’t really going from Zone 5 to 6, you are simply making the Zone 5 season longer.* I dutifully uncovered them mostly and then re-covered them so they didn’t get a sun burn, which has the advantage of starting a very fussy set of iris of to a good start as well (nice and clean) Now if I could just get the crocus to spread…
*Unless you turn it into a greenhouse, then you can get a zone or two without any added heating elements. But it is tricky, plants don’t like enclosed spaces.
Uncategorized 07:51
But some nice lateral thinking involved between the fields of study!
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Landscapes and Modern Photos photography 22:00
It never gets old, but is at its most interesting when the weather is interesting. Today, of course it was sunny and forty and I felt I ought to be looking for a crocus. But there are so many interesting shapes in these trees.
Just a week ago:
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Uncategorized 11:17
Dreaming of the summer. But it is a delightful day out there, lovely white snow which is quietly melting down into the ground.
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Uncategorized 18:18
lots of big dream projects out there….
I have the time now or will in about a month (not really what I wanted), so no excuses this year. Paintbrushes, trees, and gardens. Inertia is a major uphill battle, with a long way between the vision and the actual thing accomplished. And good intentions aren’t worth very much.
But there is a field of bittersweet and a hedgerow of dying ash that could be hickory. If I do something about it. First stop: more Tecnu for the sea of poison ivy and some more tick proof clothing. Second stop: a working bush hog. Third stop: Garlon and Glysophate.* Fourth step: convince my boyfriend that he really does want to cut more trees down and get his friends to remove them** Fifth step: start it all over.
*That is the approved ‘nuclear’ option… but at this point, aside from a few young hickories, there is nothing left down there that isn’t Oriental bittersweet, creeping briar, poison ivy, and goldenrod.
**That isn’t being a wimpy female, I know my limits with a chainsaw.
Landscapes and Modern Photos and Trees 15:19
The Copper Beech’s structure is usually fairly obscure, but the snow was just right to make it stand out quite nicely here.
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Uncategorized 18:45
finally showed up with some determination and about a foot of snow. That was nice of it. Or not nice of it. But all the equipment behaved, I have four wheel drive, and I didn’t exactly mind the day off….not that I did with it what I should have done with it….naturally.
Still a pretty storm, with elegant drifting. But I find I don’t really care for the tension it seems to induce. There is an expectation that weather won’t get in the way of the scheduled programming. But, you know? The weather does get in the way. And I am not sure that it is a bad thing to acknowledge this.
Minor shades on the theme of Canute perhaps.
Uncategorized 18:38
Winter is never actually monochrome, whether it is how snow reflects all or none of the colors of light, or the bark on the tree in grays, greens, browns, purples, reds…, or the lichen on a stone or the many shades of green that the conifers can come up with.
Consider this picture:
That is about as monochrome as you can get, but actually the shades of brown are going to drive one bonkers.
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