Beltane Beltane Moon Flagged off my Latin tutor for this Friday. Bees, garden, retreat, finishing Missing combined to soak up […]
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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, especially if you are, like me, a lover of the spring ephemerals, those hardy flowers […]
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Fall Waning Harvest Moon The last forty bulbs, a monet tulip collection, have gone in the ground. I planted a couple of hundred daffodil and tulips at various spots in the orchard, which we see from the table while eating breakfast. The others, more daffodils and tulips along with a bunch of new lilies, went […]
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Fall Waning Harvest Moon Back into the Latin this morning with my tutor, Greg. Boy, I got rusty in just two months off. This language stuff requires constant attention. When I went through college and sem, I took courses that I could set aside for weeks at a time, do a reading and note review […]
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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 moon here. The moon’s light, silvered and slight, gives no presence for the flowers so […]
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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 not mean look down, then follow the road, but eyes glued to page, peripheral vision […]
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Beltane Full Flower Moon The full flower moon rises tonight on beds full of daffodils, tulips, snowdrops and small blue flowers whose name I don’t recall. The furled hosta leaves that come up in a tightly packed spiral have begun to uncurl. Dicentra have full leaves now, though no flowers yet. A few iris have […]
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