screened-in katydid
Photo by J. Harrington
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Today's weather again has us looking forward to Autumn's cooler temperatures and breezes. We once again pulled a few small buckthorn shrubs and a couple of handfuls (handsfull?) of nettles that were encroaching on what passes for a front yard. We're working toward a new philosophy wherein doing outside chores replaces time spent sitting on our duffs or doing the equivalent of PT exercises, that keeps our joints from rusting in place and our muscles from fading entirely away.
blue giant hyssop
Photo by J. Harrington
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We've again discovered that, even when we think we're paying attention, too often we're not paying enough attention. The latest instance involved our efforts to (re)identify blue giant hyssop. We were, for a time, convinced that the plants along our drive had multiple flower heads spreading off of one stem. The field guide pictures didn't show that arrangement. Finally, we broke down and went back to look at the real thing. One flower head per stem is what's there, it looks different if one isn't paying careful attention. Sometimes we rue not having learned thee lessons when we were much younger, but in those days we were sure we knew everything we needed to know and had little if any need to pay attention to anyone or anything but ourselves. Yet another example of the benefits of lifelong learning.
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE TUESDAY.
Planting the Meadow
I leave the formal garden of scheduleswhere hours hedge me, clip the errant sprigsof thought, and day after day, a boxwoodtopiary hunt chases a green foxnever caught. No voice calls me to orderas I enter a dream of meadow, kneelto earth and, moving east to west, secondthe motion only of the sun. I plantfrail seedlings in the unplowed field, trustingthe wildness hidden in their hearts. Spring lightsprawls across false indigo and hyssop,daisies, flax. Clouds form, dissolve, withholdor promise rain. In time, outside of time,the unkempt afternoons fill up with flowers.
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