Daisy, Iris, Violet, Hazel, Ivy, Marigold, Lily, Rose, Pansy, Primrose, Hyacinth, Poppy. Whatever happened to the fashion for giving girls botanical names?
Tag: gardens
Or the day before
The tree you planted
today would have been better
planted yesterday
Billions, I bet
How many times in the last couple of thousand years has someone said “August already? Can’t be. Where has the year gone?”
Point of view
Foggy foggy day
smothering the view keeps my
mind soothed quietly
Fly sparrow, fly
Clouds of sparrows flee
many imaginary
and real threats to life
Guns into plowshares
Tired of the nonsense claim that men have to go killing, horribly with high-powered guns, animals because humans have “inherited” the tendency to be hunters. Hell, for the last ten thousand years we have been farmers, not hunters, why don’t these guys get out there with a hoe and a scythe to cultivate the land?
Winter’s tale
In winter you don’t
have a garden, rather a
garden in waiting
Hi ho, hi ho
Ants in a trail are
difficult to discourage
from food at picnics
Casualties
Every battle with rabbits is a losing battle.
Not a boiled frog
Yesterday it was
so cold the poor spider froze
to death in her web
