Daily Archives: February 23, 2009

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Green Cemeteries and Cherry Red Sculpture

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Imbolc    New Moon  (Moon of Winds)

Somehow the coincidence of these two stories tickled me.

Cemeteries go eco-friendly
Seth Tupper The Daily Republic, Worthington Daily Globe
Published Monday, February 23, 2009
Most cemeteries can be described as green spaces, but some are going “green” in the ecological sense.
“Green burials,” which can lack embalming fluids, caskets, vaults and sometimes even markers, are gaining in popularity around the world.

The cherry takes a trip
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio
February 23, 2009
A Twin Cities icon heads off on a restorative vacation today. The cherry from the Walker Art Center’s famed “Spoonbridge with Cherry” will be lifted off its mount in the Sculpture Garden and sent away to get a little work done.

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One Place Above All Others

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Imbolc       New Moon   (Moon of Winds)

Kate’s making red velvet cupcakes for Anne’s birthday lunch tomorrow.  I finished cleaning out the hydroponics and will start later today planting huckleberry and mustard greens.  The leeks don’t have to go in the pot until next week or a bit after.

When the arugula, pepper and lettuce plants came out of the pots, they had the aroma of the fresh earth.  It reminded me that in all the jobs I’ve ever had there was one place I liked above all the others:  the produce locker at Cox’s supermarket.  The combined scents of apples, pineapples, lemons, lettuce, radishes, oranges, grapes and other fruits and vegetables smelled as close to heaven as I can imagine.   There were sweet notes, tangy notes, but most of all there was the odor of life, not the odor of sanctity, which is roses, but the vital perfume of the plant world.  The root systems of these spent plants had some of that quality.

So far today has been more manual labor than anything else.  I miss that and find it soothing.  Working with plants and the living earth has a powerful cleansing effect on me.

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Gardening in February

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Imbolc      New Moon

Today will be a gardening day.  How?  I’m going to start seedlings for this year’s garden.  Leeks and a few others have to get a long head start here since our growing season, even in its climate-change boosted longer version, still does not have enough days for many, many tasty vegetables.  The hydroponics has to get cleaned out and spiffed up, too.

It may become a total transplant site until mid-May.

Also, BJ, Kate’s sister from New York comes in today and we’re going to eat supper with her.  That will be fun.

Kate’s neck has started giving her fits again, this time in spite of several different medical interventions including physical therapy, a TENS unit, a neck stretcher and nerve root injections.  This may be headed toward surgery.