Some Pretty Bits
Posted on | September 27, 2008 | 3 Comments
Here’s my Happy Shawl. Oh how I love it. I have two skeins left and when it’s done, I’ll have used 770 yards of yarn. Knitting knitting knitting.
And here’s the first dahlia I’ve grown and those are some of the chocolate cosmos from my garden too. It’s odd because it’s my understanding that hydrangeas and dahlias are very easy to grow here in Portland, but I’ve annihilated both of those plants. My cosmos (more challenging according to the garden guy) are going like gangbusters.
And I was reading Amy Lowell’s poetry this morning and found her poem Autumn. Oh it’s wonderful!
Autumn
They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia, Opulent, flaunting. Round gold Flung out of a pale green stalk. Round, ripe gold Of maturity, Meticulously frilled and flaming, A fire-ball of proclamation: Fecundity decked in staring yellow For all the world to see. They brought a quilled, yellow dahlia, To me who am barren Shall I send it to you, You who have taken with you All I once possessed? Amy Lowell (Source)
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September 27th, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
No. I don’t deserve it.
September 29th, 2008 @ 6:34 am
What’s your secret? My cosmos look like crap. Maybe if my husband would stop peeing on them?
September 29th, 2008 @ 9:33 am
i do not pee on the cosmos.
i pee AROUND them.