bonus poppies
We have a huge pit in our back yard that used to contain the root ball of a tree, before the March tornado knocked the tree over:
It's serving as the site of assorted weeds and wildflowers this summer. I had some old seeds that I didn't want to dedicate proper garden or container space to, so I scattered them into the pit, including a packet of poppy seeds that I vaguely recall receiving at a museum event in 2017. It was the right call: I enjoyed the few flowers I happened to see, but they weren't vibrant or numerous enough to have warranted more effort.
All the seed sheets I finally planted this year (one from a magazine, one from a condolence card, and one the card on which a gift bracelet had been mounted) have been a bust. I might start marigolds in the planter where I'd stuck the bits of bracelet-card.
A butterfly was feeding at length on the zinnias today, and I spotted a grasshopper on them yesterday. Party time!
There's so much going on. I'm about to go fall asleep in the bathtub for the second time today, so here are just two of the highlights:
Recordings from last Saturday's masterclass are now on Vimeo (I sang alto in the quartet). The full webinar (2 hours) is at https://vimeo.com/441702046/938feb78e1, and excerpts of just the class (27 minutes -- about a third of the taping) are at https://vimeo.com/441706837/2705f97cbb.
Mary Alexandra Agner's "Slipper and Shard" was published by Gingerbread House at the end of July. The line that sparked her take can be found at https://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/113130.html.
It's serving as the site of assorted weeds and wildflowers this summer. I had some old seeds that I didn't want to dedicate proper garden or container space to, so I scattered them into the pit, including a packet of poppy seeds that I vaguely recall receiving at a museum event in 2017. It was the right call: I enjoyed the few flowers I happened to see, but they weren't vibrant or numerous enough to have warranted more effort.
All the seed sheets I finally planted this year (one from a magazine, one from a condolence card, and one the card on which a gift bracelet had been mounted) have been a bust. I might start marigolds in the planter where I'd stuck the bits of bracelet-card.
A butterfly was feeding at length on the zinnias today, and I spotted a grasshopper on them yesterday. Party time!
There's so much going on. I'm about to go fall asleep in the bathtub for the second time today, so here are just two of the highlights:
Recordings from last Saturday's masterclass are now on Vimeo (I sang alto in the quartet). The full webinar (2 hours) is at https://vimeo.com/441702046/938feb78e1, and excerpts of just the class (27 minutes -- about a third of the taping) are at https://vimeo.com/441706837/2705f97cbb.
Mary Alexandra Agner's "Slipper and Shard" was published by Gingerbread House at the end of July. The line that sparked her take can be found at https://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/113130.html.