22.3.07

In the Garden

So on Monday it poured all day. This is remarkable only in that I had
planned to spend the day in the garden. Eventually I decided to go out
in the rain anyhow. I got totally covered in mud, and so did the dog,
but Look!! I now have a garden path down which I can easily be led.
Stepping Stones
The stones themselves are really pretty, they have mica in them so they are sparkly, and also beautiful rusty-red flecks and streaks.

Here is an action shot of the path:
down the garden path

King is not doing it right, he is supposed to have all his feet on the
stones, but the path is still new, and I think he will get the hang of
it. But still, it is not that hard.

And now the money shot:

bleeding heart.
the path leads right by the current Garden Star, my Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis

XXIII. IN THE GARDEN.

A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.

And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.

He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad, --
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.

Emily Dickinson

20.3.07

good dog

please ignore all the junk laying around the yard, we are a construction zone, after all...

13.3.07

Ladette to Lady

Oh my god, one of my very favorite TV shows Ladette to Lady is casting for Spring 2007.

It's a series from ITV1 but in the states it airs on The Sundance Channel and is about taking eight British binge-drinking floozies, and putting them through Eggelston Hall Finishing School. Here is a sample of some of these delightful girls:



Seriously, these girls are vile. I thought I was wild when I was in my twenties, but no.

The school's teachers are every bit as prissy and nit-picky as you would imagine (but in a good way).

Ironically enough, for as exacting as the teachers are, the website is riddled with mistakes. And no, I don't mean "Colour" instead of "color" I mean:

Iin addition to preparing for the Ball...

and
Wearing dresses they have made Eggleston Hall...


Seriously, do these people need a web designer / content manager?
Because I could move to London and help them out with that. No problem.

Maybe I should just apply to be on the show. Maybe they wouldn't notice I was a forty-something married lady who falls asleep at 10:01 pm.

But I would love to take the classes they have the ladettes take in the show: deportment, elocution,(whatever) sewing, flower arranging, etiquette and cookery.

Here is the schedule for the reruns of the new season.

2.3.07

Fantasy

Fantasy

I got an orange tree Peony this year,
I am so excited about it,
it is going to be just gorgeous....


Someday.

Patience...........
Peonies take at least one year
to bloom at all, and three to four
to bloom reliably. This is what it
looks like right now.

Reality


On a "I want my immediate gratification NOW" note, I got this excellent new Urban Compost Tumbler Yay! I don't know why this one is Urban as opposed to, what? Suburban? Are they calling it "Urban" because it is BLACK?!?!? I am just asking is all.