Part Two: Nature A something in a summer’s day, As slow her flambeaux burn away, Which solemnizes me. A something in a summer’s noon,— An azure depth, a wordless tune, Transcending ecstasy. ~ Emily Dickinson
summer
So Many Pictures, So Little Space
I’ve taken bunches of photos of all sorts of garden related things. I think I need to give you all a peek. This post is dedicated to my little town in Ohio. I walked around one evening a few weeks ago and snapped some things of interest to me. Hope you like them as well. […]
Color Harmony: July Pink
I usually attach a color idea of orange and yellow to July, maybe because of the bright light, or the fact that many flowers in those hues are in full bloom in this month. But pink is still a garden color that while warming towards salmon in many of July’s bloom choices helps to cool […]
Arrange the July garden around lilies
Every month has it’s supreme leading lady flower of the garden; June has the Rose, but July has the Lily. Especially now. Breeders have created the “Orienpets”, and they were the belle of several beds at the Inniswood Gardens Metro Park. I would love to have some in my garden next year. “Orania” was the […]
Fourth of July, High Point of Summer
For me, the Fourth is the watershed of summer….everything builds to this place of heat, picnics, and fireworks, and is downhill from there on through to the last gasp of summer, Labor Day. Maybe because the mystery is gone by the fourth of July. I know whether my seedlings thrived, what the insect populations are […]
Summer Poem
Looking for Gold A flavor like wild honey beginswhen you cross the river. On a sandbarsunlight stretches out its limbs, or is ita sycamore, so brazen, so clean and so bold?You forget about gold. You stare—and a flavoris rising all the time from the trees.Back from the river, over by a thickforest, you feel the […]
