Last week A. decided she liked kale. A leafy kale forest is still growing in our half-tilled vegetable garden, next to the bean tee-pee twined with dead vines.
A. ran up to the kale, ripped off a leaf, and started munching it raw. ”YUM! I love kale!” she shouted.
My heart swelled with joy and relief. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Garden'
I Love Kale, and other surprises
November 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Puppets for the People
September 9th, 2009 No Comments
Yes it was paradise in Vermont last weekend. Golden September sun, deep blue skies, banks of pink phlox and purple asters, and the last pulse of summer’s insects.
A perfect time to pack up the girls and some snacks and drive up to Westminster West to wander through Gordon and Mary Hayward’s exquisite gardens.
Over two acres [...]
Tags: Garden · Gordon Hayward · Puppets in Paradise · Sandglass Theatre · Vermont
June (a poem)
July 4th, 2009 No Comments
Up the apex of the year
Up up up to the zenith
Past the full moon racing straight into summer
Rising light, light and still more light
We climb the lengthening days till the Solstice
Peonies bursting fat petals like fireworks–
Only to start the slide down again.
Rat-post
June 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
(NOTE: This posting has been delayed in order to prevent site investigation by the Town Zoning and Planning Board)
Just in case you were imagining springtime in Vermont as an idyllic vernal fairy-land, here’s a story to bring you down to earth. Literally, down into the earth– into the compost, that is.
On May 1st, after the [...]
The 4 G’s: Girls, Gardening, and “Gossip Girl”
May 24th, 2009 No Comments
Why haven’t I been writing more? I have lists of projects and article ideas, drafts of essays, editors to contact, queries to compose, and of course my ever-unfinished poetry manuscript… But it’s all languishing in my notebook because it’s late May and I have gardening fever. AND I’m addicted to “Gossip Girl.”
Tags: gardening · Gossip Girl
Survival Mode
May 18th, 2009 No Comments
We’re over the stomach flu, but Tim is in the hospital with a mysterious Staph infection in his knee (possibly MRSA). He’s been there since Saturday night, on IV antibiotics. We are in Survival Mode. I pulled a deer tick out of A’s neck yesterday with my eyebrow tweezers. She yelped and yanked away, and [...]
Tags: family · hospital · Staph infection
Getting Things Done
April 27th, 2009 No Comments
I remember being a person out in the world, accomplishing tasks, getting things done. I loved the satisfaction of checking things off my list– tick, tick, tick. Whether it was work, writing, errands, projects, I enjoyed the life of a fairly efficient person.
Now an entire day can go by and I feel I [...]
Tags: Productivity
Water the Garden
April 20th, 2009 No Comments
Mid-April and the pink Daphne is in full-bloom. My daffodils are still buds about to pop.
A. turns on the hose by herself and waters the dry perennial garden. She likes the Tree Peony poking up its reddish fronds.
I’m always amazed how bright and dry April can be, no leaf cover to protect the [...]
Garden Girl
April 10th, 2009 No Comments
I’m ready to garden, hungry to get my hands in the dirt. A. wants to play Owl and the Pussycat Have a Tea-party. We settle on making mudpies in the still-empty annual herb bed, where I’ll plant basil, cilantro, dill, parsley, calendula, and if I have room, nasturtiums.
“This is MY garden,” she tells [...]
Tags: Garden