Summer Waxing Summer Moon Each penitentiary or prison warden fears the convict who can identify a weakness in the multiple barriers to escape. So do dog owners. Our puppy Rigel wiggled under the gate leading down to our perennial garden, … Continue reading
Summer Waxing Summer Moon Mark and Elise came over today. We wandered through the garden and the orchard, followed by Rigel and Vega. They licked and pressed and jumped. New people! New people! Oh, boy! Oh, boy! New people! Rigel … Continue reading
Summer New Moon A bit of a disconnected afternoon. A long nap followed by working for a while in the heat trying to figure which zone on our irrigation clock corresponded to which actual sprinklers. This was necessary because we … Continue reading
Waning Days of Beltane Waning Dyan Moon We near midsummer; it’s only 15 hours away. The Summer Solstice, the hot sister of my favorite holiday, the Winter Solstice, comes to Minnesota at 12:47 am tomorrow, the early hours of father’s … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Dyan Moon My e-mail accounts have slimmed down after post-vacation bloat. It always takes me a while to delete and save e-mails after a time away from the main computer. Done now and feels good. The whole pre-Raph … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Dyan Moon “Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.” – Remy de Gourmont Don’t you suspect Remy de Gourmont considered him(her)self a complex mind? It’s the simplest explanation for this quote. Our two puppies … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Dyan Moon Something hinky with the 1&1 servers today. (my web host) Couldn’t get on until late. Back now. I spent the morning and late afternoon working on an America’s tour for a group of design students at … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Dyan Moon The garden. The squash and melons are up. The beans have begun to put on second leaves, the peas have begun to climb the trellis and the cucumbers have their tendrils out for their trellis, too. … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Dyan Moon Speaking too soon. Right after I posted the last entry Kate got sick. She lay on the couch in our deluxe room, sweating and feeling miserable. This concerned me, both for her and for what it … Continue reading
Beltane Waning Dyan Moon Empire Builder, Winona, Minnesota around 8:00 pm We just ate dinner with a couple who retired 5 years ago from IBM. They’re headed for Glacier National Park, then … Continue reading