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Creating Interest: July 2015
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. The Story of Frank and Naples. In the year we no longer feared "Y2K" and the collapse of world banking and missile defenses, I invented a private detective in a post to one of the email groups I belong to. My invention was just for laughs. Wise Guy Writing is how I think of it. It was something that came naturally to me in high school and it has stayed with me. Well, this stor...
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Creating Interest: April 2015
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Things Are Shaping Up Nicely. My title is taken from a the mouth of a character in one of the novels of the French author, Colette, who I remember reading during the summer of 1977 after I moved to Vermont to join my life with that of my wife of one year, "San." I think the novel was The Vagabond. Karen was the only member of the club who approached Kathy a year later and ...
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Creating Interest: December 2013
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Thursday, December 19, 2013. I've been sleeping a lot the past few days, nursing four broken ribs, and I got up early this morning and have time on my hands, so here's a memoir or memo about my short and curious path as an aspiring soloist in the field of Classical Music. Rather than take this as a critique of higher education, one can take this as a set of opportunities for human development. I...
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Creating Interest: June 2014
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Sunday, June 8, 2014. Many of the plants here have personalities. Take, for instance this colonnade of the ornamental grass, Karl Foerster. Kathy placed these bright coneflowers against the block wall that was three feet farther back when we moved in. The planting area on this side of the wall was too big. The planting area on the other side was three inches! A little farther up the wall, there's a ...
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Creating Interest: June 2013
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Monday, June 10, 2013. In this picture, the barberry bush makes a "jeweled" background for the daylily blossom. The picture would be blah without it. At this time of year, the hardy geraniums named Rozanne are growing lush and nuzzling up against the barberry, making a most companionable impression on my imagination this morning. I find it hard to put daylilies into companion relationships, though I...
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Creating Interest: Still Life with Peonies
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Still Life with Peonies. The show is on now, and sometimes when you're up close, what you see can remind you of still life paintings you see in museums. This is a peony named White Cap. The white blossom behind it is a fabulous peony named Do Tell. Here's a solo blossom of Do Tell. Here is White Cape again, with Itoh peony Mikasa on the right. There's a tray of yellow zinnias ...
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Creating Interest: Reminiscing
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Sunday, August 17, 2014. She has been gone two days now. I'm full of sobs. Not fair, not ever fair. And yet, lucky for her that she went peacefully, in sleep, shortly after we spent an hour on the couch in the living room, and I brought up every memory from our big pond of lucky, happy moments. The smile was bigger than the woman. The eyes! I planted Kathy's 2013 seedlings two weeks ago, when she wa...
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Creating Interest: Personalities of Plants
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Sunday, June 8, 2014. Many of the plants here have personalities. Take, for instance this colonnade of the ornamental grass, Karl Foerster. Kathy placed these bright coneflowers against the block wall that was three feet farther back when we moved in. The planting area on this side of the wall was too big. The planting area on the other side was three inches! A little farther up the wall, there's a ...
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Creating Interest: March 2014
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This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives. Friday, March 7, 2014. The other cross involves Rich Howard's PAWPRINTS ON MY HEART and again the pollen came from "unknown," though in this case there's a good chance the parent was Subhana Ansari's SECRET OF SECRETS, another favorite here. This is PAWPRINTS ON MY HEART:. And this is SECRET OF SECRETS:. I took that picture just before sundown in late June. The flower has all-day glamour! With some ...
