Dear Kaya, It will be one week today since you were born, and to mark the occasion your father and I planted a hyacinth bean over your placenta. It was about time that we did it, especially since your grandmother was getting upset at encountering it every time she opened the fridge. There is a …
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eye candy
For anyone not so interested in the gory details, here are some pictures that speak for themselves!
Kaya: a birth story
Note: this is a birth story, so it contains some of the attendant horrors of childbirth, beautiful miracle that it is. Just a warning, in case you're not into that kind if thing! On Sunday night, we all headed down to the red house to sleep. I was thinking about the laundry that I wanted …
Shameless hussy
Some girls just don't know when to quit. This iris was a gift, in the form of a rhizome, from my mother. It did very little last year, but seems to be making up for lost time. I want to say, "relax, we loved you even when you didn't flower." Meanwhile, with one week left …
Fecundity abounds
A birth announcement that predates what I hope will be my own good news- we have chicks! They are all tucked under mama hen here, but there are 9 in all and one of them is all black. What clearer sign of spring could there possibly be?
Garden Correspondent 