PlantsInPlace

[My Green and Ivy Days] A lush green Swedish ivy presided over the first couple of years of my career. It flourished in the cool, sunny window where I hung it, and I suppose I flourished, too. It wasn't until a few years later that I began to realize that I was as green as the ivy. -- P.

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[Feathers of Hope (Numenius)] They've started to cut the corn.

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[Hoarded Ordinaries] Today was a quintessential New England autumn day. Temperatures were mild, the sky was richly blue, and the landscape glowed with earthy colors: red, yellow, orange. On this quintessentially New England day, I did something that felt quintessentially Midwestern: I got lost in a corn field.

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[Via Negativa] But it's folly to think that when the trees are finally all bare, things will become - you know - somehow clearer. Because isn't this how one pictures a revelation? Brilliant. Brief.

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[alembic] I am working lots, but not too efficiently at that, it seems. Then again, it may just be that the pace has quickened, or that the demands have grown in number, and the expectations in proportions. Half the work I am doing these weeks is not for pay; it’s all volunteer. Like half my garden.