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Workin’
Beltane Beltane Moon Flagged off … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Latin, Translating Metamorphoses
Tagged asparagus, beets, bleeding heart, daffodils, ferns, garlic, Gertie, hosta, onion, pacyhysandra, shallot, strawberries, tulips
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A Garden, Some Latin, Ai Weiwei
Beltane New Last Frost Moon The potatoes are in the ground. The lettuce has two leaves, as does the spinach, a few beets have emerged. The leeks look a bit droopy, but they’ll pick up. The garlic is well over … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Asia, Bees, Commentary on the news, Friends, Garden, Politics, Woolly Mammoths
Tagged Art, Bees, carrots, daffodils, garlic, Latin, leeks, Mark, Ovid, potatoes, scylla, spinach, vegetables
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Impish and Knowing
Spring Waning Bee Hiving Moon Talked to the grandkids on Skype. Gabe’s linguistics have made a jump and Ruthie seems to have rocketed past the early years of childhood and landed in an elementary school body. Jen went to crossfit … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Family, Garden
Tagged Artemis Hives, daffodils, Gabe, Ruth, skype, Tai Chi
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Salute to the Spring Ephemeral
Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon We have hundreds of daffodils just about ready to bloom. A few scylla have popped up in the front and crocus, too. Tulips have also broken through. It’s an exciting time for a perennial lover, … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Friends, Garden
Tagged crocus, daffodils, docents, lilies, scylla, snow drops, tulips
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Breakthrough!
Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon I have made several entries private and will explain that decision on Sunday. Stay tuned. The snow has only a few strongholds left in our front yard though the back and the woods still has … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Garden, Our Land and Home, permaculture
Tagged Bees, daffodils, orchard, raised beds, spring
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In and Down
Fall Waxing Harvest Moon 60 pink daffodils have a new home in the soil surrounding two cherry trees and a pear tree. These trees are the first ones visible out our kitchen window, so the blooms will cheer us up … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Spirituality, Garden
Tagged bulbs, Celtic, daffodils, darkness, holy wells, Wales
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Weed
Summer Waning Strawberry Moon Nice weather for weeding so I took the opportunity and finally got into the second and third tiers of our back perennial garden. Out go the raspberry canes. Out go the stinging nettles. Out go the … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Weather +Climate
Tagged currants, daffodils, marigolds, poison ivy, raspberries, stinging nettles
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Life is a Conspiracy Against Nature
Spring Full Flower Moon Dicentra in deep pink, iris in deep purple, tulips in yellow, red, orange and purple, daffodils in many combinations of yellow and white, plus, amazing for this time of year, lilacs, fill out the full flower … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Bees, Dogs, Faith and Spirituality, Friends, Garden, Health
Tagged daffodils, dicentra, Emma, flower moon, Iris, tulips
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Important Document? Read While Driving.
Spring Awakening Moon Warning: Rant ahead. Not texting, not brushing teeth, not combing hair, not eating cereal or drinking coffee, no, this young woman I passed on my way to the MIA yesterday read while driving. By reading I do … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Great Wheel, Great Work, Minnesota
Tagged carrots, cygon, daffodils, garlic, parsnips, reading, tulips
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