Driving home from a potluck Saturday afternoon, stuffed to the gills, I was once again touched by the beauty of eastern Ontario. The beauty I’m referring to has nothing to do with your typical kind of beauty, found in fountains, extravagant buildings, or even tropical rain forests and blue butterflys. It is the [...]
Archive for the ‘Easy being green’ Category
Dark and drear
Posted in Broken shattered and scarred, Easy being green, Life, a journey of the mind, The land that lives, This school we call life, Virus of the mind, Wonders of the world on April 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Some Color for ye
Posted in Above our heads, Creatures of our joy, Do what you love, Easy being green, The land that lives, Wonders of man, Wonders of the world on April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Blue through water off the rain barel
Red Hot Ice on the car
White Hot Ice keeping a grip on the Sun
Little bits of sun in the shade
more colour in fresh oil paint! My mom had a 45 minute date with young rhubarb shoots, to be continued
Salad Cat!
She Loves bags and boxes, clear ones most of [...]
Bring The Fire Home, Baby!
Posted in Dietary Delights, Do what you love, Easy being green, Wonders of the world on March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am thrilled to announce that I have found another Dragon fruit, this time of the Yellow-skinned variety!
Kluang Yellow (Selenicereus megalanthus)
and Red skinned/white fleshed Kluang (Hylocereus undatus)
I prefer the yellow as it has sweeter meat and it is stickier. The two poor Dragon fruits got cut up and passed around, I had to take [...]
The fun is in getting things done!
Posted in Do what you love, Easy being green on March 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
1:37pm to 5:19pm
Cleared a solid patch of black raspberry canes and saved all the good stems. They are trimmed and waiting in the garage to be planted when I get back from a Kingston funeral tomorrow.
also, some more sunshine for you
and an update on Rhubarb growth
Got Dragon, will grow
Posted in Creatures of our joy, Dietary Delights, Easy being green, Wonders of the world on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Having planted a few seeds from my miraculous dragon fruit on a little soil in a plastic bag, I went on with my life, doubtful that such an amazing fruit could be so easy to propagate. Little did I know that those little crunchy black seeds were as easy to grow as they were to [...]
Tap into Spring
Posted in Easy being green, The land that lives, These boots, Wonders of the world on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
=> Beware, Poem ahead! <=
I’ll take you on a walk with me, it is time to tap the trees!
Each spring when days get warm and the nights still freeze
We wander out to take some blood and boil it into gold
(when sap freezes it expands so trees must keep it down
morning comes and up it goes [...]
Living Sunshine
Posted in Easy being green, The land that lives, Wonders of the world on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We had such good snow cover this winter very little of the ground froze, making it easy as pie for my crocuses to pop up and sing
Dragons Egg
Posted in Dietary Delights, Easy being green, Wonders of the world on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dashing around town on a brisk march afternoon, I appreciated the luxury of driving a car that would always be out of my price range.It seemed strange to me that one’s insurance company would reward you for getting hit by another vehicle by giving you an absolutely-amazing-piece-of-human-engineering with traction control and the new cars smell!
Little [...]
