Primula
Category:
Garden | Posted:
Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:18 pm
I had better start looking forward to spring. My Primula give me a much-needed colour boost. I like my double ones, a reminder of a 75-year-old garden enthusiast further north:
I don't know this one's name, but I like the dark leaves and red veins:
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Autumn is not my favorite season
Category:
Garden | Posted:
Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:01 pm
As I walked in my garden today, I really felt wretched. My lovely hostas are yellow, slimy heaps of collapsed leaves. My colourful lilies are stalks. Brown stalks with brown leaves and the odd bright red lily beetle. I see the tips of my trilliums and know for a fact that I won't see their blooms until May.
Everywhere there are drifts of leaves to remove, but they are all soggy and heavy because of the wet weather, and I can't find my thick rubber gloves anywhere.
The apples that I lovingly thinned in early summer are small and scurvy and mostly birds' food. And the elderberries destined for my husband's wine cellar are gone too, along with the starlings.
Jeez, I do need to find something about autumn and winter that will cheer me up, or else I'll end up in the hospital's emergency room, raving and ranting and clutching my lily bulbs.
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I start with philosophy
Category:
Ramblings | Posted:
Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:53 pm
I found a new favorite philosopher last week. His name is Bertrand Russel, and he is Welsh. Or, rather, was. He died in 1970, 98 years old.
I first stumbled upon some quotes, which picqued my curiosity, so I started searching for more material. My, what a character this man must have been, and what noise he must have made in his time!
I almost feel sorry not to have noticed him before, when my brain was working better. Ah, well, no use crying etc.
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