“Hen Party” I try to make it a habit to walk around our yard most days after work. I circle the house, then head down to the garden where yellow and red Zinnias occupy one row and red-and-white striped ones form another. The heads of the...
Sunday afternoon I left my husband with seed packets of Zinnias and Dahlias and walked up, across the yard, to look for a spade in our overflowing garage. The planting of those flowers, four packets, was what I requested for Mother’s Day this year. I don’t...
I loaded three cartons of eggs and three ice blocks into our straight-out-of-the-eighties rolling cooler this morning. We inherited the cooler from a friend because she didn’t need it anymore and we didn’t want to spend $20 on a cooler for eggs that might not...
These are the blossoms for the Dragon’s Tongue beans. Photo Source And for all this, nature is never spent; there lives the dearest freshness deep down things . . . – Gerard Manly Hopkins Bean plants grow low and lazy, leaning. Standing...
I’m sitting on the couch when it comes, cycling through my usual websites with a growing sense of dread. I feel frozen, unable to move on to something else even though I know I need to. A wave of heat washes over my body, rising up my back, my neck,...
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