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Away I Go
Posted on | May 26, 2009 | No Comments
Late spring iris I really hate getting up at 4:00 in the morning, but that’s when I’ll be up tomorrow in order to catch a flight out of town. I’m heading east again for one last trip until my daughter’s graduation is behind us. Although I’ll be gone only three days including travel (it’s so [...]
Snow Queen Melts in Spring
Posted on | May 24, 2009 | No Comments
Whenever I go out of town for a few days, I never know what to expect from the garden upon my return. It’s always extremely different than when I left, and always surprises me. When I returned from my trip to NY last week, here are a few of the surprises I found awaiting me: [...]
Second Sock Syndrome… No Way
Posted on | May 22, 2009 | No Comments
Just returned from a quick trip to New York for a combination of work and family. Two long plane rides to and from California could mean only one thing – knitting! There are days when I have to ask myself whether this is a knitting blog or a gardening blog, and I guess the answer [...]
Another Milestone
Posted on | May 17, 2009 | No Comments
Last night was Senior Ball at my daughter’s high school. Well, it was not held AT the school, but at a party space not too far away. And in the spirit of the recession, instead of renting limousines and having to deal with all the groups forming and reforming for the ride there and back, [...]
Happy Birthday, Rachel
Posted on | May 14, 2009 | No Comments
Today my daughter is eighteen years old. In just three months, she will be off to college. Celebrating the day she becomes an adult is especially poignant because she is my only child, and over the last several months it has been my mission to loosen the apron strings, to resist my over-protective urges, to [...]
Happy Mother’s Day…
Posted on | May 10, 2009 | No Comments
… to all the mothers out there in the blogosphere. For you, a bouquet of the garden’s finest: For all the tears, noses, and bottoms you wipe (even when you catch yourself thinking, “Hooee, this is one stinky little rugrat!” and then catch yourself because it is, after all, YOUR stinky rugrat): For all the [...]
High on a Hill Lived a Lonely Goatherd…
Posted on | May 9, 2009 | No Comments
Rachel’s spring recital was this afternoon. Her voice teacher of four years assembles his students twice a year for a formal recital at the Berkeley City Club (a gorgeous Julia Morgan building near the UC Berkeley campus) so all the parents, friends, and significant others of our favorite singers can hear their progress. It is [...]
All Things French
Posted on | May 5, 2009 | No Comments
I admit to being a francophile, though I have not visited France in several years. But aside from the obvious attractions (the wine, the cheese, the CHOCOLATE…), there is something about driving out of Paris into the countryside and seeing, suddenly, rolling green hills and tidy manicured farms appear where only minutes ago suburban sprawl [...]
May Day
Posted on | May 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
When I was in college back in the Dark Ages before Ravelry and blogs, when knitting needles were mostly metal or plastic and yarn choices were woefully limited, I had a friend named Harriet who made a sweetly big deal out of May 1st. She’d tiptoe out of her dorm room at four in the [...]