NATURE IS A GREAT HEALER
Some pictures from the garden. I'll update this throughout the summer
as a garden-journal.
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In the garden
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<2023-05-28 Sun 12:00>
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The weather outside is serene. The scent of lilacs carries through the
yard. I am relaxed and at ease as I move through the garden. My hands
are in the dirt, digging, pulling, and shaking. I lay down ground
cover and make room for new seedlings. Every action is small but
intended. I can only make gentle suggestions to the natural world. It
will always do its own thing, mysterious in its reasoning but
unyielding in its determination.
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If I'm lucky I may even get a visit from a furry friend on their hunt
for dinner.
Sprouts
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Stuck in dirt, watered, and then wished-upon-a-star. Lo: they punch
through the dirt as microcosms of their full form. They are
spring-loaded. The tension in their small stems visible like the shock
of green against dirt. Upwards they grow.
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(IMG) chard.jpg
(IMG) peas.jpg
(IMG) raddish.jpg
(IMG) sproutt.jpg
This year I am growing swiss chard, peas, beans, raddishes, and
beets. There will also be some corn, maybe, and sunflowers if I'm
lucky! My garden elf planted garlic and raspberry bushes last
year. Both are doing extremely well!
Flowers
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Happy heads of scent and colour. Their necks craning to follow the sun
like periscopes searching for land. I continue to try to cull the
dandelions in the garden, pulling the big ones up after rain or on a
boring day. There are many wild flowers that appear without my
effort. The lilacs, as always, are bountiful.
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(IMG) forgetmenots.jpg
(IMG) pansies maybe.jpg
<2023-06-04 Sun 17:50>
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After a few unseasonably hot days the weather is a week of rain. I
find the drizzle, droplets, and puddles cooling. The darkened days add
intrigue to the textures of plants. Flowers get drenched and their
petals drop onto the ground forming splashes of colour on the asphalt.
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(IMG) fern.jpg
(IMG) hearts.jpg
(IMG) hummingbirds.jpg
(IMG) iric-closed.jpg
(IMG) iris-1.jpg
(IMG) iris close.jpg
(IMG) peace lilly.jpg
(IMG) white flower.jpg
(IMG) buttercup.jpg
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(IMG) iris again.jpg
(IMG) lily i think.jpg
(IMG) more-purple.jpg
(IMG) purple.jpg
(IMG) red flower.jpg
(IMG) waterdrops!.jpg
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(IMG) Two tiger lilies spotted with dew
(IMG) A single tiger lily after the rain
(IMG) A tiger lily, not yet bloomed
(IMG) A pink flower, name unknown
(IMG) A hazy purple flower
(IMG) Another hazy purple flower
(IMG) A raspberry flower preparing to bloom