Tag: garden
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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September 07, 2008 11:46 PM EDT --
It's dark out and the chickens are in bed. The ducks go in on their own now, and sleep in the chicken coop, but they intimidate the chickens, who roost up on the roof, and I have to go out and catch . . .
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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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October 06, 2008 12:52 AM EDT --
In Autumn more than any other time I'm keenly aware of how quickly the seasons pass. Maybe because I can look back over the summer and see all of the berries I didn't pick, all of the chores left . . .
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January 10, 2009 11:20 AM EST --
It is 2,181 miles from Birdland to Seattle. Today it's 42 degrees there, and cloudy, with showers in the forecast. I have to think about these things, when I imagine my boy, who just said goodbye . . .
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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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August 27, 2009 11:48 PM EDT --
It is the season of the yellow butterflies, when early mornings are chilly, but by noon we're looking for a shade tree. The butterflies gather at the edges of puddles and then dance in tumbling . . .
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October 13, 2008 12:46 AM EDT --
The days are getting shorter, and the combines are waking from hibernation. They're like elephants, or dinosaurs, aren't they? Slowly grazing across the fields, devouring the browns and russets . . .
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April 27, 2008 07:26 PM EDT --
April 27, 2008
Hanging the wash always gets me thinking of my cousin, Patty, in D.C., who understands laundry. We once bonded over the discovery that we both, separated by half a continent, used to . . .
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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 24, 2009 12:03 PM EDT --
In Birdland the sunflowers I planted around the garden coop have grown strong stalks to carry their faces up over the roof of the coop to greet the morning sun. They clear the coop, but are still in the . . .
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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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July 19, 2008 12:13 PM EDT --
It's high summer in Birdland, meaning, I guess, that the humidity has expanded to fill every nook and cranny, tassels are just beginning to peek out at the top of the cornstalks, and the garden is . . .
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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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