6 March: some weeding and a book

The weather was good enough to get some weeding done in the front driveway garden. To do so, I rather reluctantly emerged from my reading retreat.

Lots of weed grass in the driveway bed.

Iris reticulata in the concrete vaults:

Next door, deer were lounging about in Alicia’s back garden. They like the secret willow cave.

I read a book in the evening, acquired by interlibrary loan, about a storm I learned about in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Hurricane Agnes, a bringer of much destruction.

It has the compelling scenes of volunteers trying to sandbag the banks of the Susquehanna River, without enough bags, a futile effort, but they gave it their all.

The volunteers ran as the sandbagging failed…

After the flood…

…the description of a lost garden was especially poignant to me. (I often picture what my garden would be like after a tsunami.)

Has anyone reading this heard of the storm called Agnes? The book is so obscure that Goodreads doesn’t even have it registered.

Tomorrow, my next Minack Chronicles book will arrive by 11 AM and then I hope waking life will be all Minack all the time until I finish the series…I have seven to go. (On the other hand, blog readers might be falling away in droves as they wish I would get back to pictures and words about gardening.) I do take a break from reading when we have our late dinner and we watch, these days, Great Canal Journeys and some old episodes of one of my favourite shows ever, Ground Force; I’ve found a treasure trove of them on YouTube.