Yesterday was a good, meaty day full of gardening: splitting and moving the herbs and that invasive white iris (that I love.) Dirty hands, cool breezes, cold hose water, mud. Making the dogs suspicious by using the push mower. Drying out the 4 stuffed animals Donovan left out in the rain the other day. (Donovan is the rottweiler.) Weeding ~ I love weeding. When I'm getting brain-fried in the studio, I'll take a break and go weed. Right now we have no weeds in the garden, due to the past week's studio grindstone.
I planted pepper and basil seeds, and tided around and dreamed and smiled. At one point, I looked over to see Mimi having an intimate whispered conversation with the catnip, rubbing her face in the leaves with an occasional lick, eyes half-closed. (for those of you who don't know, Mimi is a cat.) Mimi really enjoys her life.
And I love watching the teeny birds (at other times aka the damn house sparrows) fluff and bathe in the glazed earthenware saucer I put out, on an overturned pot, as a birdbath. They're very serious about it, adjusting, poofing, squatting, and generally making a huge splattery, watery mess. It looks like a water balloon exploded around there when they're done.
It was a restorative day and badly needed, as the 4-hour opening on Sunday, which I really enjoyed!, completely fried me. I come home from those types of events so burnt out, knowing only time and solitude will give me back any modicum of life and energy. Being in my garden is helping! Does this happen to you, or are you energized by crowds?
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I wish I was good at gardening! I have a really similar chimenia, beautiful picture!!
From Carys of La Ville Inconnue
glad the opening went well :) yes, crowds get me completely pooped out :) i'm usually in bed by nine after a big art show. i love your cozy little back yard too!
your yard is reely cute! i´d love to see mimi rubbing her face in catnip^^ think i have to plant some of that too for my girls... lollo´s always grabbing for the newly unrolling bananaleaves at night, that noise makes me wake up immediately!
to answer your quest: i´m not a spectaclegirl, too.
greets BB
Wow, I am envious. I want to garden but it has either been snowing or raining here. Apparently next week we are supposed to see some sun...can't wait.
It takes me several days to "decompress" from a hectic gig--and yes for me it takes pretty much being in solitude as much as possible! It can be something as small as doing laundry or shaving my legs, stuff like that helps bring me back to reality!
I thought I'd have to buy plants at this point...I guess seeds will still have time to grow? I haven't thoroughly checked into what i need, very slow this year...it doesn't even feel like gardening weather much of the time, but that's probably just me.
I am definitely overwhelmed by too much activity most of the time. After recommending a book to you a little while back, I started thoroughly rereading it and using the flower essences suggested in it. There's a good article about it here...
http://www.flowersociety.org/drmesich.htm
I'm loving your latest polaroids...the colors are so saturated. I think both versions are wonderful, though.
This is the kind of day we've had today. Lots of 'hands in the dirt' time. I love the photo of your garden.
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