Melody Maple glowing in the morning sunrise Not a great week for news. The war in Ukraine is now in its third year, and people are starting to say that Ukraine should just negotiate an end to the war, which means giving up a huge chunk of their country to Russia. Putin will not stop …
Category: Gardening
In Your Dreams
I’m not a person who attaches meaning to dreams in general. I don’t keep a dream journal and I rarely recall my dreams when I wake up. I think most of the time our dreams are simply our brains processing the day and wiping the slate to prepare for the next day. Dreams can be …
Weather Purgatory
Some weeks feel interminably long and this was one of them. I can’t even say why, but James and my coworkers and students in the library were also lamenting the very long week. Sia, who can't see where she is most of the time Maybe it’s because the weather is stuck in between seasons. I …
Winter is Coming?
I managed to change my blog host, a not entirely straightforward process that caused me not a little stress. I’m finding most of the photos on posts won’t load currently, so that will be something to sort out sometime. With the new host, I also needed to change the way everything looks. It’s a bit …
Ouch
I missed writing last week because, well, read on. In spite of December continuing on as significantly warmer and drier than usual, last Saturday into Saturday night we got some light rain that turned into an icy, crunchy snow when temperatures finally dropped below freezing. Sunday was sunny and forecast to warm up to freezing. …