Your Favorite Monthly Blog Post! : May 2011

Here comes a whole bunch of photos...I will attempt to catch up!

Puddle swimming--a cool thing to do on a hot spring day--though we haven't had many of those!

Stephen is having a fun time!

Brown study

These berries were green--they have been black and eaten since!

Lavender is very medeival. The leaves are even fagged--like the sleeves of the before mentioned ancients...

Embryonic.

A tissue of membrane beyond which glows unborn life...

There are more new-old pictures coming...

A little bit...

pleasant little storks..: )

dear and sweet!

My yellow rose begins to bloom!

"A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,

And the young winds fed it with silver dew;

And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,

And closed them beneath the kisses of Night."

--Shelley

These are not acually called "sensitive plants", but they act the same! Stephen charmed me regarding these, and here is a little journal excerpt explaining;

"Stephen and I were standing in my garden where I had just showed him the withered and senile ( but still legitimate ) watermelon plant, when he crouched down and said, "Look, there/s one of those!" (Stephen habitually is an exception to MacPhee's theory of male ways of expressing themselves--not ever using pronouns) It was one of the pink pom-pon plants whose leaves are sensitive to touch and close up--he had recognized it by leaf shape alone--there were'nt any flowers yet!"