Garden Musings: On Changes
Perennials I planted ‘round the bower
Have sprung up, green, and hasten on to flower,
While bulbs I placed in careful clumps last fall
Now bloom where squirrels rearranged them all!
Category Archives: Gardening
Is it Still Summer?
A little watercolour sketch of my irises back in June
What a summer! While some Ontarians (those deprived of perfect holiday weather) were complaining about how “not summery” it felt this year– so much rain, our lakes too cold for swimming, etc.– of course I listened sympathetically!
But then a few gardening friends and I gloated privately to one another Continue reading
About (Not) Writing – Blame the Month of May!
(Chaucer did, so why not I?)
Distractions! One of my favourite down-to-earth poets, Geoffrey Chaucer, put it most eloquently in the prologue to his book The Legend of Good Women: after declaring his fervent devotion to reading books, from which nothing could waylay him, he confessed in lines 34-39 [non-rhyming modernization]:
“…except, certainly, when the month of May
Has come, and I hear the birds sing,
And the flowers begin to bloom–
Farewell, my book, and my studiousness!”
Well, like many humans, I do enjoy writing, “except, certainly, when” I also succumb to Chaucer’s distractions. But it’s not just the birds and flowers. It’s living life! Here in a nutshell, in chronological sequence, are our two main wonderful distractions of May 2014: Continue reading
chez Hildegard 