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I didn’t realize how much I missed having a big garden until I was in one today.
I couldn’t stop touching things. Getting under and into the snap pea’s teepees. Checking squash vines for female blossoms, deadheading the marigolds.
Like a teenager covering her bedrooms walls with pictures of heartthrobs, now I’m plastering the wall of my blog with photos of the garden. (Clicking each picture will take you to the higher quality versions on Flickr. )
This is my favorite photo because of the bug flying through the sky. It is shaped like how a child would draw a bug. I love it.
Peas hung out like laundry
Water from a sprinkler is one of the most captivating things to watch. I wanted to see water fall on everything.
And pumpkins just casually lying around! Los Angeles pumpkins are so expensive! But these were lying on the ground like cash money.
There was a huge jungle of squash vines that all looked identical from above, but I liked looking underneath and knowing that this will be one thing
and this will be something else
and these something else entirely.
Oh yeah! There’s horses there too. But that’s a whole other fangirl blog entry.
Something lovely in less than 140 characters – from before the era of Twitter. Our new Poet Laureate wrote this tweet-length poem a long time ago.
Separation
by W. S. Merwin
Your absence has gone through me
Like …
Well like it or not, here they come.
Maddy hates baths but loves the part where she gets wrapped in a towel after a bath.
This is so cute!
( Filmed at the Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica – the world’s only sloth orphanage. Baby sloths whose mothers have been killed are brought to the sanctuary and looked …
Cool!
You may have seen this before but it was new to me — supposedly the direction that this dancer appears to spin tells you whether the right or left side of your brain is …
If you go to the Good Mood blog and scroll to the end of my post for today, there’s a recipe for strawberries with sugar and balsamic vinegar that I am absolutely addicted to. …
There’s a real shortage of creative commons snail photos out there. That’s going to be a problem if my dream of snails becoming as iconic as cupcakes is ever going to come true. I would …
