Tag: flowers
member name: Mary H.
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September 17, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
The curtain is coming down on summer. Each morning it's a little darker when I wake up, the light illuminating my morning chicken chores is a little more muted. In another month I'll need a flashlight . . .
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May 15, 2009 01:01 PM EDT --
So much rain this week in Birdland! I'm not sure when they'll be able to get into our fields. We seem to have permanent wetlands, both a running stream and several ponds, and may have to consider . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:26 AM EDT --
In Birdland Daylilies have their green-bean buds, but no shot of orange yet, Black-Eyed Susans are still all fuzzy, gangly stalks of leaf. In a week, Yellow will be all the rage, but for now we have the . . .
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July 31, 2009 12:46 PM EDT --
Ghost lilies are haunting Birdland. I noticed them blooming in town last week, and knew ours were not far behind. Do you know about Ghost Lilies? They are the pale pink wild cousins to Amaryllis, and . . .
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May 08, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
Is it me, or does everything speed up in the springtime? In Birdland the lilacs are already gone, mostly turned brown, the lovely scent evaporated. All this rain has made everything a deep jade green, . . .
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September 29, 2008 12:31 AM EDT --
It is the season of the yellow butterflies and the tiny, biting gnats. I don't know if they are really gnats, but they are the size of a large fleck of pepper and have a silver triangle on their heads. . . .
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June 19, 2009 09:06 AM EDT --
This week brought even more rain to Birdland, and a mild tornado shows me the wisdom of folks who do a barn raising in one day. The storm hit early in th e morning with a grass green sky and a wind . . .
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June 26, 2009 12:42 PM EDT --
Birdland has a new bonfire pit, thanks to Alexsis, home from the East Coast for a while. My niece loves her home, yet she is no homebody. She is always on some migratory path, and I can't keep track . . .
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July 03, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
In Birdland the Black-Eyed-Susans are still blooming, and the Jerusalem artichokes are budding. Another yellow flower (one that looks so much like ragweed when it comes up that I used to pull it all . . .
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July 15, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
It’s a sunny day in Birdland, but I need to get something off my chest. I’m tired of the secrecy, the deception, the juggling of half-truths, the panic I get when I realize I’ve left . . .
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August 21, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
School has started, bringing a whole new set of rhythms that reminds us that Fall is on its way. Bedtimes and breakfast are earlier, and we settle into a schedule of making lunches, doing homework, and . . .
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October 01, 2009 11:38 PM EDT --
It's chilly in Birdland, and gets dark early, and the light comes late in the morning. Almost time to plasticize the coops. The quince is turning golden on the little tree, each heavy fruit weighing . . .
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October 08, 2009 02:08 PM EDT --
I was hoping to spend my afternoon digging day lilies to transplant along the new path to the barn. The path is only imaginary still, but it's vivid in my mind. My experimental plan to mow only . . .
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September 01, 2008 10:44 PM EDT --
This week I wanted to send a card to my sister who will be home soon from driving her oldest out to the East Coast for school. I know this is hard for her, and I want to write and tell her what a good . . .
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May 22, 2009 09:20 AM EDT --
Does your town or neighborhood have a small, local paper? It could be a daily paper or a small town weekly. Do you think your community would enjoy reading Letters from Birdland?
Why not write or call . . .
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June 02, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
This week I wanted to write to Carolyn and Earl in the City of Brotherly Love. They have a daughter we haven't met yet, and I think we're due for a visit. Carolyn and Earl . . .
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January 09, 2009 09:15 AM EST --
In Birdland, it's a little while before Spring comes again. Meanwhile, we can dream through Phyllis' slideshow: Flowers in my World . Artful pictures of flowers and bees with commentary.
This . . .
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August 07, 2009 12:15 PM EDT --
A young cardinal wants badly to get into the house. It flies up to the kitchen window and peers in, only to fly away when it sees me at the counter. It comes to the door, too, clinging to the edge of . . .
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June 11, 2009 01:35 PM EDT --
Fireflies have returned to Birdland, adding a busy starlight to my evening chores: watering the garden, closing up the chicken coop against night-time predators, thinking about tomorrow’s tasks. . . .
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June 30, 2008 06:26 PM EDT --
This week I wanted to write again to my good friend, Nancy in Indiana. I know I just wrote to her a few weeks ago, but she is the first friend who has answered a letter from Birdland since I began this . . .
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