Willow-draped trickleswear wet green strands, fluttering naiad’s locks tickling shaded pale fish bellies. Ordinary magical stream meanders; along its obscurest banks gnomes and bullfrogs picnic and play checkers; where butterflies and birdstraverse undergrowth tosip in mid-July’s droughtand thirsty violets tiptoe. I went looking for a nice image to fit the poem but decided to…
Category: flora
dVerse’ 10th Anniversary Celebration Week — Poetics — My Garden on 071321
The edges of my garden curl along green fuzz, concrete, and stone. Its haphazard, organic growth is both playland and harvest zone; where ants climb and dragonflies wheel; where rainbow sways among today’s sky offering. Claudia Schoenfeld, one of the co-founders of dVerse, is today’s host for Poetics. We are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of…
Doodads — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly *and* bonus videos!
Since there will be 2 videos at the end and I’m tired, for now, there won’t be full-screen photos of these if you click on the captions. Let’s start with the pretty pictures (aka the good ones) These are the “bad” or not so great pics. Either the color was washed out, the bugs had…
Doodads — family time and labyrinth walk plus a few shots from last week at the garden center
Today was such a relaxing day. The days-long showers have taken the humidity out of the air. The sun was shining and the temp was an even 70F as I headed to Grand Rapids to see my oldest son. His girlfriend was out of state visiting a sister so it was just me and him…
Book Review — “Passion for PEONIES: Celebrating the Culture and Conservation of Nichols Arboretum’s Beloved Flower,” Edited by David Michener and Robert Grese
Not meant to be read from cover to cover, it is more a coffee table book. That said, the first section is one you probably will read all of if you are interested in how The Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum got started. A few men with passion for peonies and the means to do…
Tao Talk 