elm row

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well, hel-lo new scarf . . . mm-mmm. ain’t you a sight for sore eyes? and whatever else ails you. i think it’s the softest and lightest of the little nothings yet; it whispers across the neck like a breeze (ok—i confess—i’ve been wearing it all day . . . i just can’t bring myself […]

stretched and about to burst

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i’ve been watching this lily bud since sunday . . . we are so going to have our first lily bloom very soon—this one’s just about to break open and show its deep bordello-red self (the red ones always bloom first, and the white ones last). we have a whole row of these asian lilies […]

not a stitch on me

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so yeah, i planted rapini this year, expecting the half-hearted response i normally get from planting greens. but lo—my usual luck was overtaken by a faerie or something . . . because dudes, do you see how thick and lush that patch of rapini is? and it grows tall really fast, too. if you are […]

today i’m a blockhead

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faerie ferns. hopefully they will spread out into a lush carpet of ground cover in my hosta bed, which sits squarely in the shade. in my head i can see it clearly—a cool green carpet of tough little fern fronds completely covering the soil and preventing any weeds at all from growing through. then a […]