Courtyard

I’ve been told….

So…

My son tells me that most people don’t have a

hand carved man

Holding some wayward necklaces

In their bathroom.

Dayum.

Is this true??

talk to me people...

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

The kids are all home!   Well almost.  Our daughter-in-law is still in Germany.  My husband surprised me last night by coming home from the airport with my son (from Germany) and daughter (from Portland, OR)!   We are looking forward to a great weekend and I wish the same for you and your family. 

Bride with Yellow Bouquet

Tickled pink…

…Just ‘cause.

Pink was my most favorite color growing up…

still love to sink into it now and then.

soft pink

domino

Louder pink…LOOK at me pink

decor pad

Couldn’t resist the baby pineapple pink

Sleep in late pink…anyone??

I am alive pink

Fun slipcover pink…

save the tata’s…

pink.

Garden Bloggers' Muse Day ~ September 2010.

With apples very much in my activities and thoughts at the moment, I have gone fruity for my September muse ~ this poem celebrates our rich heritage of apple varieties ~ 


The Apple War

'The storm troops have landed,
The red and the green,
Their pips on their shoulders,
Their skin brilliantine.
Uniform, orderly,
Saleable, ambitious –
Sala and Granny
And Golden Delicious.
Quarter them, they’re tasteless;
They’ve cotton-wool juice,
But battalions of thousands
Routinely seduce.

In shy hen-haunted orchards
Twigs faintly drum,
Patient as partisans
Whose time has almost come,
From Worcester and Somerset,
Sussex and Kent,
They’ll ramble singing,
A fruity regiment.
Down with Cinderella’s kind,
Perfect toxic, scarlet;
Back comes the old guard
Costard, Crispin, Russet.
James Grieve, Ashmead Kernel,
Coppin, Kingston Black –
Someone has protected them.
They’re coming back.' 


~ UA Fanthorpe, 1929 - 2009

Garden Blogger's Muse Day is hosted on the first day of each month by Carolyn Choi over at Sweet Home and Garden Chicago. 

Malawi Fisherman