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Silent Sunday
College Creek, December 2, 2023 “He liked the fog, the world quietened down and closed in. Glossy turned to matte, every stridency was muted, substance leached out of the brute matter all around....
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Silent Sunday
Camellia sasanqua “What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow....
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Six on Saturday: Solstice
Rosemary for remembrance This week we celebrated the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. While Thursday and Friday may have been a breath shorter than Wednesday and today, it is really this...
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Christmas Blessings
Smilax rotundifolia vines climb between trees along Back River, near Jamestow Island, Christmas Day 2023. “May the light illuminate your hearts and shine in your life every day of the year. May...
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Silent Sunday: On the Edge
Geese at Glebe Gut, across from Jamestown Island “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” Graham Greene
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Six on Saturday: “Be Here, Now”
Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Autumn Brilliance’ remains green and beautiful through January’s cold. “Without going outside his door, one understands (all that takes place) under the sky; without looking...
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Silent Sunday: Flow
Morning on the James River at Glebe Gut, looking across towards Jamestown Island. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Heraclitus
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Six on Saturday: Time’s Up
Essentials for planting bulbs in our yard include some Plant Tone to shake in each planting hole (yellow top on the jar); some spray Repells-all to treat bulbs other than Narcissus, to protect them...
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Silent Sunday: Winter Victory
The first bud of the season, Helleborus x hybridus “The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is...
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Six on Saturday: Ever Green
Mistletoe blazes green and vibrant on Friday morning Last Sunday was as nice a day as one could possibly hope for in January. The sun shone. The breeze blew gentle, and almost balmy. The Earth was...
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Silent Sunday
Helleborus x hybridus “Alchemy was (and is) considerably more than the attempt to turn base metals into gold. To an alchemist, all material things ripen toward perfection unless something gets in the...
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Six on Saturday: Was that a bird I heard?
Helleborus x hybridus Was that really a bird I heard singing outside my window in dawn’s twilight, before I was quite awake? Now that we are past halfway between Winter Solstice and the Spring...
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Six on Saturday: More Than Hellebores
Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Scarlet Storm,’ Japanese flowering quince We are enjoying the warmest few days in ages. I went out for a moment on Friday morning, then tucked back indoors just long enough to...
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Silent Sunday
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better...
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Six on Saturday: Iris Surprise
Iris reticulata ‘Pauline’ It was bright and warm enough yesterday to sit outside for a while on the back deck while burning the coating off of a new hot plate for melting wax. I ended up staying out...
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Silent Sunday
Ebony spleenwort grows on the exposed roots of a fallen tree. Jamestown Island, February 2024 “The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it...
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Six on Saturday: Tea?
More daffodils bloom each day now. The conversation outside my window began long before dawn. I could barely make out any light penetrating beyond the window dressings, but that is beside the point....
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silent Sunday: Unfolding
Chaenomeles speciosa “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” G.K. Chesterton
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Six on Saturday: Certain Uncertainty
Redbud, Cercis canadensis, in bud on February 29 this year I can’t recall whether the groundhog saw his shadow or not. The hopeful ritual on Candlemas each year has little correlation with reality....
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silent Sunday: Imagination
Forsythia “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all....
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