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Tag Archives: Summer
More Views from the Urban Porch
I sit on the Urban Porch with iced refreshment and dog as the summer progresses. Some views remain the same and some continue to shift. The most spectacular event this month was a bit of dramatic weather. Those who know … Continue reading
Posted in summer, Uncategorized, Weather, Wildlife
Tagged dog days, Summer, summer storms, urban wildlife, views from the porch
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Of Summer
Standing outside watering a thirsty garden watching prisms arc through the spray under a late afternoon sun I am reduced to a child reliving the joy of running under the rainbow in the sprinkler on a hot summer day Sweet … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, summer, Uncategorized
Tagged Childhood, growing old, looking back, magic, Memories, nature, Summer, summer time
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Tradition
The tradition continued into the next generation when I took my three-year-old grandson blueberry picking for the first time. With his little pail and my big one, we ventured off into the field and down the row of bushes together. … Continue reading
Posted in kids, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged berry picking, blueberries, generations, grandchildren, grandparenting, Summer, Traditions
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Pie
I made a blueberry pie from all those blueberries I picked. Then I ate it for breakfast two days in a row. Just because.
Meditation in Blue
There is a place I consider somewhat sacred – a place that I have been going to for decades. It is an orchard farm not far from my home. It has been the place I would go to pick berries, … Continue reading
Saturday Market
Posted in Gardening, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged bounty, Farmer's Market, Harvest, Summer, vegetables
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Green
As a child, my father and I would occasionally enjoy a delicious glass of carrot juice together. Many years later, he introduced me to the idea of doing some serious juicing myself when he gifted me his old Omega juice … Continue reading
Posted in Diet, Photography, Shopping, Uncategorized
Tagged cabbages, Color, Dad, Father's Day, green, greens, juicing, Memories, missing you, my father, Produce, Spring, Summer, visual memories
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Cicada Love
They have arrived in some areas here, the emergence/invasion of the cicadas….pockets of ringing, singing, screaming cicadas. Then you turn the corner to meet a vacuum of silence where there are none. I stood among them watched them climbing the … Continue reading
Posted in Are you kidding me?, Photography, Spring, Uncategorized
Tagged big bugs, cicada invasion, cicadas, insects, Summer, the magical cicada
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Sauce of the Goddesses – Time To Make The Pesto
The season is early this year, maybe due to excessive rain this summer. The basil has peaked and it has come time to harvest before it flowers out of control and begins to wilt and fade. It is time to put up the pesto for … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Uncategorized
Tagged Basil, Basil Sauce, Gardening, Green Gold, Harvest, Pesto, Pesto Recipe, Pesto Sauce, Recipes, Sauce of Goddesses, Summer
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Some Updates for Those Who Are So Inclined
Just sitting here at the moment, sipping some refreshingly iced mint tea made with fresh mint from the garden. That, and a secret stash of Mexican chocolate laced with cinnamon. Momentary slice of bliss. As the month of July winds down, … Continue reading
Posted in Diet, Gardening, House plants, Uncategorized, Weight
Tagged Dinner Club, July, Summer, Tree of Heaven, Updates
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Eating Phlox
Digging into the earth between the patio stones with a stick, there is a little girl in a sun-suit crouched on the ground on a blue summer morning; a morning with a tinge of humidity in the air and one which promises to … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Uncategorized
Tagged Childhood, earth, edible flowers, Flowers, One with the Earth, phlox, Summer
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The Art of Recuperation
A few days ago I had cubital tunnel surgery on my arm to free the nerve which was crushed and affecting the muscles in my hand. It is something that has progressively been getting worse over time – something which I have … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cubital tunnel, heat wave, mehndi, recovery, recuperation, Summer, surgery
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It’s Fig Season and I’m In Love
Fresh figs are in season at the moment and I am in love. I have been loading up on them because their availability will be limited. Their appearance is as exciting as the blooming of a garden flower that is fleetingly here and gone. … Continue reading
More Garden Fireworks for July
Monarda bursting in the air…. The best Hosta blooms ever this year…… Echinacea like skyrockets……… Trumpet Flowers trumpeting on the vine…….. Gooseneck Loosestrife tumbling forth…………….. Purple Bindweed pulses with color………… July garden, in concert…………
Garden Fireworks
The July garden comes forth with its own fireworks of texture and deep, vibrant color.
From a Bench on Main Street
I am distracted today as I prepare for the weekend ahead, so I don’t have much to say today, but there is an image that keeps popping up in my head. A few weeks ago I had been walking down … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective, Uncategorized
Tagged couples, happiness, observations, Summer, vermont
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The Summer Solstice Garden
Because I have been out and about on an adventure of sorts (to share down the road), I am just going to update my blog today with what is going on in my garden on this, the Summer Solstice. Primrose … Continue reading
What’s That Smell?
It was June, the very end of the school year. I was taking the kids to the bus stop that morning and upon opening the front door, a waft of perfumed air drifted by me. It was such a beautiful scent that for a … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Spring, Uncategorized
Tagged Heavenly smells, Summer, Summer Roses, Wild Roses
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