No locks, no doors, no little boxes [that we know of], just keys to the past: 
Probably also something for an office in a building long gone, equally unlockable and un-locatable. No longer at that address, or at any other. Feh.
Archive for March, 2015
The garden beckons…
Posted in Elsinore, Gardening, Nature, tactless observations, tagged asters, borers, Gardening, iris, mud, pesticide reduction, pruning, spring cleanup on 26 March, 2015| 1 Comment »
Or squelches. Squelching is what’s going on here. For those of you still dealing with layers of Crystaline Aqueous Insulation, mud is surely in your future….
Here in Zone “7b-having Like Zone 6”, we have mud, crocuses, and the beginning swells of daffodil blossoms. Pussywillows!
And, if you’re paying attention, the kinds of chaff you don’t leave around for the insects to crawl out of:
If you’ve grown iris for any number of years, you know the damage iris borers can do. Here’s something to help thwart the next generation of those horrible things: remove all the dead leaves and DO NOT put them in your compost pile.
My aster and goldenrod stalks will remain where they are a little while longer, but I’ve pruned the grapes and hope to get a little time to thin the old raspberry canes this weekend. We’ll see.
Wishing you all fair weather and dry basements….
For the embroiderers and fabric folks…
Posted in Art and Craft, Backstory, museums, tagged antique textiles, close-ups, embroidery, fabric, how it's done, looms, macros, pink, Roses, silk, Skinner's silk, weaving, Wisteriahurst on 24 March, 2015| 1 Comment »
A closer look at one of the roses in the previous post:
I haven’t done any color correction here; just wanted you to see how the pattern was composed. Almost makes me wish I still had good contacts at the textile school…
While we wait for the flowers outside
Posted in Art and Craft, Backstory, Fabric, tagged a long family line of jackdaws, amber, antique textiles, change, fur coat linings, gifts from an old trunk, pink, rose, satin, silk, Skinner's Silk and Satin on 23 March, 2015| Leave a Comment »
These blooms have kept their charm for a hundred years….
Thanks to the selvage on some of these fabrics, I even know where this was most likely made: Skinner’s Silk Mill, in Holyoke, MA. The next time I’m in the Pioneer Valley section of MA, I’ll have to visit Wisteriahurst and see what their archives have…
Nesting Material
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 March, 2015| Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: All the threads have been carried off the shrubberies. Project Threads to Birdie Beds is complete!
Crochet, ok?
Posted in Uncategorized on 21 March, 2015| 2 Comments »
Marching forward
Posted in Backstory, Elsinore, Gardening, Nature, scenery, tagged blue, hello yellow, hope, spring, twigs, witchhazel on 19 March, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Things keep piling up in the rearview, and at the moment I haven’t the right words for them. So instead, a happy signpost of the season:
The star magnolia in the front yard is starting to split out from its fuzzy silver calyces; the pussy willows in the side yard are puffing out. It’s too early to tell whether the many transplants have survived the winter, but I am seeing shoots from the bulbs I buried last fall. I hope the rabbits have other things they can nibble on while I locate where I put the garden’s allotment of hot pepper flakes.
I’m sorry, we have no Auroras…
Posted in Elsinore, Nature, tagged backlighting, blue, fire in the sky, fuschia, orange, sunset, treeline, trees, westward Oh! on 18 March, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Bonus crocus
Posted in Uncategorized on 12 March, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Oversaturated: Fungus
Posted in Uncategorized on 12 March, 2015| 2 Comments »
The snow has finally retreated, so MUD, and sogginess, and if that isn’t a summons for an oversaturated fungus picture, I don’t know what is.
Don’t they look like they should flap their way across the screen, like flying toasters or eggplants or something?
Rethorykal Questions 