Hi, Herbs!

Here’s my first impulse buy of plants for the year. From left to right: thyme, parsley, cilantro, scallions, and pansies. You can’t see it, but the garlic I planted last fall is sprouting behind them. More greenery!

Water drop water drop

The rain, rain went away. It’s wet, wet outside. There’s water, water everywhere And not a drop will leaf.

This blog is being passed over

Why is this blog post like a significant fraction of my other posts?

What’s with all this rain?

It’s pouring again. Again. So I’m ignoring the rain again and showing more plants sprouting. These are Dicentra, probably the Bleeding Hearts. Not quite as charming as trains of little pink hearts, but I like the deep red color and the tiny folded fans of the leaves.

More daffodils

Daffodils here. Daffodils there. More daffodils everyday. The annual flowering cycle begins again.

NERAX Saturday

If you don’t see anything here, it’s because I’m running the bar for the last day of NERAX!

NERAX Friday

If you don’t see anything here, it’s because all my intentions to write a blog post have vanished along with the brief snow that fell this morning. There’s always one last bit of spring snow, and it’s a relief to see it come to so little. I still haven’t forgetten the April Fool’s Blizzard. Now […]

Fruit Tree Saga

I’ve always wanted a yard full of fruit trees. When I was a child, some of our neighbors had a yard that was jam-packed, green and shady and wonderful. For a year in college, we lived in a house when all sorts of interesting citrus trees, as well as a fig and a pomegranate. (None […]

Weeding the maple sprouts

With the first flowers come the first weeds. Maple seedlings are sprouting up all over the place. So I went on maple patrol and pulled them up. And I’m off to go help open NERAX on time.

Re: The Fallen and the Muse of the Street

I’ve grown to trust the principle that the first pages of a short story are going to be indicative of the rest. In other words, if I don’t like the beginning of a story, I feel free to put it down and go on to the next. I almost did that to “The Fallen and […]