13: How Does Your Garden Grow
1. Corn is the new candy!
2. And a lounge chair at the pool is the new napping nursery.
3. This is the place where I have nothing to write because I’m working on a story about Floyd Yoga Jam.
4. I couldn’t find my bell-bottoms HERE.
5. “Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors” – Alice Walker
6. Hint of citrus / mixes with hibiscus / mingles with rose hips / in a tea garden bouquet
7. My poem, Medicine Wheel Moon is featured HERE.
8. Summer is like aging. You feel it coming to a close even when there’s still plenty of it.
9. One way I know my grandsons are healthy and intact is that my eldest admitted he cried during the movie It’s a Dog’s Life. “Your great grandpa Redman always cried during sad movies, I told him. “I didn’t cry but I felt sad,” said his younger brother. There are no grades in school for that kind of thing, emotional intelligence. You don’t learn it in school and you can’t fake it. It comes from being loved and connected to life. More HERE.
10. While everyone was painting plein air on the Parkway, I was taking pictures of those making pictures and chasing butterflies flutter by. See HERE.
11. The pot I burned yesterday looked like Game of Thrones Greyscale and while scrubbing it off, I felt like Samwell scraping off Jorah Mormont’s Greyscale infection.
12. The zinnia is a close second but the corn is still taller and the sunflower in the way back of the garden is the tallest of all.
13. Now I’m thinking that summer is like a firefly in a jar. It soon stops being so actively bright, and you eventually have to let it go. Same thing with children.
__________Thirteen Thursday
August 14th, 2019 9:01 pm
I noticed the other day the change in the light in the tree leaves. A little tinge of yellow here, a loss of green there. Autumn beginning to slip in, mostly unnoticed, but the signs are there if you look. Spiders in the hallway. Chipmunks with full cheeks racing for the fallen log. The leaves will be red and then on the ground before we know it.
August 14th, 2019 11:02 pm
I can tell summer is coming to a close when my windows and screens get full of cobwebs!
August 15th, 2019 9:38 am
beautifully
August 15th, 2019 5:43 pm
Suddenly, it doesn’t matter as much if the grass needs mowing, and all the Monarchs are feasting on goldenrod for their migration trips; the days are shorter, and a bit chilly now in the evening, and yeah, the light is different. Softer.
August 15th, 2019 5:54 pm
You’ve got me thinking about the humanity of emotional intelligence and English tea being a picnic.
Vegetables not growing in the backyard is what’s missing this summer. Will I do something about that next year, we shall see.
August 16th, 2019 10:24 am
I agree that corn is the new candy! How delicious and easy to pick! Thanks for the bounty that you share! ?
August 17th, 2019 12:01 pm
Yes, number 8, that’s undoubtedly why I don’t love Autumn as much as I used to before I reached neatly the end of it…hope it’ll be a long one. The emotional intelligence one is so true … yes, we have to let our kids go, but that’s a gift they’ll keep forever. …. the plein air one, I haven’t followed the link yet (and I will, that and all of them), but I have several times taken photos of the painters in addition to photos of the scenery they are painting.