As I was pulling into a parking lot out East on Wednesday I saw this truck pausing to turn left. You know what those bundles are? Grass, somebody's future lawn, the product of a sod farm all rolled up like so much carpet.
Spring cleaning: I made this dried arrangement more than 2 years ago from locally gathered material and it's been collecting dust in my living room all this time. Today I threw it out, but first had to make a pictorial remembrance.
My neighbor's Japanese maple tree hangs over the fence and is very prodigal with its winged seeds. I found this seedling just as spring was arriving. I potted it up, and so far so good.
Picture taken after the sun sank below the tree line.
9 comments:
Gosh, Priscilla - all 3 of your pictures have to do with growing things, in one way of the other - an interesting montage.
The Japanese Maple seedling looks good and healthy - good luck with it ....
My mom has a J. Maple, with tons of little shoots, she took some and planted near her property line, I should go get some, they are good looking tree's
They are gorgeous trees but slow growing, at least the ones were on our property when I was a kid. Of course that soil was clay. They would probably grow faster for you.
How's the weed?
I like that arrangement you made out of things you found in your journeys through the woods. I think I'll start doing that with Caroline, maybe start a diary of the things we do together (only the fun stuff though)
Hi, Maureen. Thanks, and yes a nature diary can be fun.
It can also be disturbing when you note nice things that used to be there but are no longer, for instance there was a large unruly patch of wineberries in a private park I've loved and visited for decades. Well, a new Board decided to make the park more user-friendly so they mowed down that whole area and turned it into grass, which pleases the eye if you didn't know what was lost. I used to pick a pint of berries there 4 or 5 times in a summer. Most unusual in suburbia. There are other spots with wineberries but none so productive as that one
So true. In my jadedness, when I first started reading your response re: looking back at what was there, my mind went to thinking of what hell I'm in for with Caroline in her teen years. Lesson learned...slow down and enjoy all aspects of life.
Well said.
Are you going to grow it as a bonsai tree?
What are wineberries. I am completely unfamiliar and ignorant of them.
Maria
Wineberries look like red raspberries, (i.e., shaped look like litte cups)
They are sweet and very perishable, hence you don't see them in the supermarket. They are native to Long Island and start to be ripe around the 4th of July. Blackberries come weeks later so there's a continuum through the summer. Or, there used to be. On the other hand, I've recently found extensive blueberry scrubland a little east, yum-yum.
If the Japanese maple survives I'll keep it in a container.
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