2009 was the summer of my mother’s garden. We had spent many the day getting the garden ready, and the results would last in beauty through the whole season. The day of the Long Beach Peninsula “Music in the Gardens” tour dawned bright. And yes, we saw the dawn because garden tour days make this night [...]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
flashback: 27 June 2009 — Mom’s garden open
Posted in 2009 garden journal flashbacks, garden touring, plants, private gardens, tagged books, garden touring, gardening, Long Beach Peninsula garden tour, Mom's Garden, Music in the Gardens tour, private gardens on March 14, 2012 | 8 Comments »
flashback: 3-5 October 2008 — Sylvia Beach trip
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, tagged books, Brewin' in the Wind, Cape Meares, Oceanside, reading, room journals, Sylvia Beach Hotel on February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My friend Carol and I had planned a trip to Sylvia Beach Hotel and then her new job intervened so Allan and I went instead. He’d never been. I wasn’t sure how he’d take to “the game” (Two Truths and a Lie) played at dinner but he did well with three stories: his mother in [...]
flashback: 12 August 2008 — another garden open day
Posted in 2008 garden journal flashbacks, ferns, garden touring, our garden, perennials, plants, private gardens, roses, trees and shrubs, tagged books, deer, garden touring, gardening, our garden, plants, reading on February 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Summer 2008 was indeed the year of glory for our garden. August 12th saw the Vancouver garden club on tour; every year, one of their members goes on the Peninsula garden tour and chooses a few favourites, then requests a tour for her group a month later. It did inspire me to keep the garden [...]
flashback: 21 June 2007 — a whirlwind of work
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, annuals, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Amy Stewart, books, gardening, Klipsan Beach Cottages, Long Beach Peninsula, Mom's Garden, poppies, reading on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was a whirlwind of work Tuesday through Thursday …because I am leaving tomorrow morning at a shockingly early hour for the Hardy Plant Society Study Weekend in Portland…meeting my good and witty gardening friend Sheila. Speakers include the great Dan Hinkley. Although I am very much a homebody who frets about taking trips of [...]
flashback: 11 June 2007 — a lovely day off (and a book)
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, journal, our garden, plants, private gardens, spring clean up, tagged books, gardening, our garden, reading, tiny houses on February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last night I realized ,after working quite late again planting the unadopted street planters in Long Beach and trying, but failing, to get the Boreas done before its owner returned from vacation (Sorry. Susie! We almost made it!), that I must have today off. Areas of our garden were disappearing into weeds and every work [...]
flashback: 9 June 2007 — again with the vignettes
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, books, California poppies, Celia Thaxter, Ilwaco, Long Beach Peninsula, planters, reading on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
After refurbishing the garden beds at the bay house in Nahcotta, we spent the rest of the week watering…planting cosmos….planting the blue plants at Linda’s garden, watering again, planting a few things at Marilyn’s and Klipsan Beach Cottages and Andersen’s, waiting for the fence painting to be done at the Shelburne so we can finish [...]
flashback: 7-9 May — a new garden is created
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, hardscaping, plants, private gardens, public gardens, tagged Andersen's RV Park, books, gardening, Karel Capek, Laurie's garden, Long Beach Peninsula, The Planter Box, weather on February 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, 9 May 2007: Monday we made another big change at the Shelburne, this one deliberate rather than the repairing of the truck incident. Because the original garden design (not ours) had included two shrubs bracketing the front entry, and because they had grown up so tall that they blocked the signs showing the history [...]
flashback: 8 March 2007: gardening ennui
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, narcissi, our garden, spring clean up, tagged books, gardening, narcissi, reading on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Gardening ennui never lasts for long. I am experiencing some ennui as the gardens seem to be stuck in limbo with only a little new growth. There is plenty of proof that I am just imagining this; Tuesday at the China Beach Retreat, the circle of narcissi that had been green on our last [...]
flashback: 3 March 2007: a movie, a garden, books
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, public gardens, tagged Astoria, Blue Scorcher Café, books, gardenings, reading on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Occasionally there is a film which I so much want to see that I will kick over the traces to go see it in Astoria even on a non-rainy gardening-worthy day. So it was with Pan’s Labyrinth, which lived up to our expectations and more. I think it is rare for a foreign language film [...]
flashback: 1 March 2007: gardening and remembering
Posted in 2007 garden journal flashbacks, private gardens, tagged afterlife, books, gardening, memorial garden, reading on February 8, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I was sure I would have another day at home to finish the novel I began during yesterday’s chilly non-working weather: The Brief History of the Dead, one of three fantasies I have read with fascinating theories about the afterlife. But by eleven, the rain had stopped and a tentative foot outside revealed that the [...]
