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Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Plants named in Seeds. In the novel, both Caroline and her brother Somer were fostered out to work on farms in their childhood:. They boarded with Catholics, Presbyterians, Anglicans, Unitarians, and two kinds of Baptists black, and, well the other kind, although he never did find out what he should call them. All the same, there were no placements with Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, or Seven Day Adventists. You are co...
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Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Plants named in Seeds. Gardening is both my respite from writing and my opportunity to ruminate about the stories I write. I garden from the last snows of March until the first snows of December. One thought on “ My Gardens. October 23, 2013 at 12:37 am. Your property look like a lush tropical island. It looks like the creation of a botanical genius. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Send to Email Address.
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Dried Flowers | Seeds
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Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Plants named in Seeds. Aside from my gardens, I enjoy creating dried-flower arrangements. To colour some of the dried-blooms, I use dyes created from berries. Hand-coloured raspberry stems twisted to create the swirling of the piece. My Dried Flower Arrangements. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Thirteen Ways from Sunday.
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Tussie-Mussie posy & the Language of Flowers | Seeds
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Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Plants named in Seeds. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. A tussy mussy is a Victorian-style bouquet where flowers are positioned in a metal vase. The term can refer either just to the metal holder or to the entire bouquet. In the Victorian era, a tussy mussy was a popular gift to a lady from her suitor, with messages encoded in the bouquet using what was known as the. In this excerpt from. To mitigate the cons...
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Polar Bears | Seeds
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Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Plants named in Seeds. In this excerpt, Somer, one of the protagonists in. Recounts an experience he had in Alaska:. Polar bears are not new to Somer. He encountered those years ago, on the oil rig in Alaska where bear cages were set around the camp. Shortly after his arrival, one of the roughnecks sat with him in the canteen. Are you an orphan? It was a lesson Somer never forgot. One thought on “ Polar Bears. You are comme...
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Cape Breton writer, author, musician and grumpy old man. The Promised Land: a novel of Cape Breton. Excerpt – The Promised Land. The Rock in the Water. Cape Breton history, served funny. A few weeks ago I had an email from Douglas Arthur Brown, well-known Nova Scotian author and owner of Boularderie Island Press. He had just published a novel, The Promised Land: A Novel of Cape Breton, by musician, songwriter and author Bill Conall. Would I be interested in reading it and possibly reviewing it? This grou...
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Tiresome Writers | Seeds
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Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Plants named in Seeds. Aphra’s mother was a book reviewer who entertained many publishers and writers at her dinner table:. Compressing everything written by the other critics into the Holy Grail of literary endorsement, the one-line sell. For decades, Aseneth’s bon mots graced the covers of second printings and expensive ads in the weekend book sections of the papers. One thought on “ Tiresome Writers. Fill in your details...
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Coffin Tree | Seeds
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Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Plants named in Seeds. In Seeds, Aphra honours the wishes of her late husband who wanted to be buried in his coffin tree casket. Here is a brief excerpt:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Plants named in Seeds. In the sub-menus below you will find brief excerpts from. Together with some interesting trivia. You are also introduced to four characters from the work: Aphra, Hada, Caroline and Somer. Caroline’s Gardens of the Senses. Tussie-Mussie posy and the Language of Flowers. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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