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Tag Archives: spring
Who Stole Spring?
I’m glad I started writing about my garden and about spring flowers last year when everything happened perfectly, beautifully as (I think) it should have. Gradually the winter cold loosened its grip, allowing the warming ground to admit crocus flowers first, then forsythia, … Continue reading
The Joy of Making My (Garden) Bed
I vanquished the last of the invading host of weeds in Smith, my plot in the community garden. The mild winter and early spring had provided the ideal conditions for those pernicious plants to slowly, steadily grow and thrive, sending … Continue reading
I love Lettuce From the Garden So Much…
…I would risk getting struck by lightning just to have some. Well…not quite but this evening when I returned home from work we were going to walk to Jones for lettuce for a salad to eat with grilled steak, but … Continue reading
More Neighbors
I hope you enjoyed meeting some of my neighbors who live around where I work in Washington. I know they were glad to see you; new faces are always welcome around here. In fact, not only does everyone keep asking … Continue reading
Posted in The Life and Times of Union Center
Tagged blossoms, grape hyacinths, integrated, pansies, spring, tulips
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems Memorized
Tagged fragile, gold, green, impermanence, Life, Robert Frost, spring
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First Salad
Yesterday evening we ate the first salad from the garden. It’s hard to imagine greens (and reds) being sweet until, on an early spring day around the first of April, you harvest lettuce and spinach and endive, wash, toss into … Continue reading
The Healing Green of Sprouts Under Lights
March 13, 2010 I moved the lights up one link in the chain that suspends it over the beautiful, green, increasingly lush young plants. Twelve one inch high smokey green cabbage plants stand on the far right side. Each plant’s … Continue reading
Posted in Garden: A Love Story
Tagged gardening, green, seeds, spring, starting seeds
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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the … Continue reading