06.14.09

Around the June garden

Posted in chez C, gardening, miniscules at 8:34 pm by islandashley

birdfeeder

junerose

gardensteps

Walk down these steps, and you’ll find A’s pea trellis:

A'speas

Elsewhere, the strawberries and osoberries are ripening. The latter taste like…hmm, bitter lettuce? Something vaguely familiar, but something we don’t commonly taste. Kind of horrid and kind of tantalizing.

strawberries

ripeosoberries

They look just like perfect miniature plums, don’t they? I adore them.

My neighbor gave me a ton of plants today, so I got to putter in the yard for a few hours. I love sedges and grasses and I don’t love lawn grass, so that worked out well. We ripped out a few square feet of lawn and extended the planting area.

plantingproject

04.26.09

Fiddleheads and blossoms

Posted in chez C, flora and fauna, miniscules at 8:13 pm by islandashley

fiddleheads1

fiddleheads2

fiddleheads3

Same ferns, fading light.

I took a little walk into our woods and saw this blossom suspended by a spider’s silk:

cherryblossom1

cherryblossom3

Here’s my pretty 4-inch posy: pacific madrone bark and cherry blossoms.

posy

02.25.09

miniscules

Posted in miniscules at 11:24 am by islandashley

I have a natural affinity for small things. I know this can tend toward the schlocky and cloying and cutsie, but I really can’t help myself. (And it may be balanced by my love of huge art installations.) I’ve been going through my 2008 photos, making an iphoto album for last year, and here are some images that still delight me:

redseashells

These are sea shells I collected on the shore of the Red Sea in Egypt in 1996.

justrighticecream

Fun-size cones. Perfect amount.

tinypinecones

A. loves these tiny pine cones. So do I.