April 20, 2021 at 10:48 pm (Recommended, Books)
Tags: reading lists, novel, spring, COVID Reading
Toted this novel to the de Young! Cannot put it down.
It’s Joyce-an. Should have been called Agnes Bain.
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April 20, 2021 at 4:07 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Mondays, museums, art, Sacramento, spring
Tomorrow morning, early, self is headed to the de Young to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit. Finally, finally.
Because she’ll probably be out the whole day, she’s posting tomorrow’s Bright Square early. Thank you to Becky at The Life of B for hosting this challenge!
More pictures from the Crocker Museum in Sacramento! The huge painting is Landscape with an Archer, by David Ligare (American, born 1945)
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April 17, 2021 at 1:35 am (Flowers, Links, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, clematis, Garden, spring
Flower of the Day is the mighty clematis montana rubens. Self has had this plant 20 years. Never has it flowered the way it is flowering now. Guess all it needed was company.
Thank you to Cee Neuner for hosting this wonderful photo challenge.
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April 15, 2021 at 6:43 pm (destinations, Flowers, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Garden, Palo Alto, spring
And here we are, halfway through April! How time flies.
I’ve been wanting to post this picture for Becky’s April Squares challenge theme of ‘Bright,’ for a long while. They’re from a March visit to Gamble Garden Center in Palo Alto. I don’t know what they are — daffodils? I’ve never seen anything like them before.
See more Bright Square galleries here.
April 14, 2021 at 4:30 pm (Links, postaday)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Gardens, spring
April 12, 2021 at 8:36 pm (Flowers, Links, Lists, postaday)
Tags: flower photography, Garden, Mondays, spring
The life of B‘s Bright Squares Challenge runs through the month of April. Fun!
Today, self is back to photographing flowers. She had so many things she could have posted today, but she decided to leave some pictures for a future post.
Pictured:
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April 11, 2021 at 12:57 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday)
Tags: art, blogs, Gardens, inspiration, Redwood City, Saturday, spring
For today’s BRIGHT SQUARES (See more about this photo challenge, hosted by Becky on her blog, The Life of B), self went to her local library and took pictures of the murals painted on the kiosk next to the main entrance (where there are/were vending machines). They’re giving out lettuce and basil seeds — you pick!. There’s a reflection of me on the glass, taking pictures, LOL!
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April 9, 2021 at 7:55 pm (destinations, Flowers, Links, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: flower photography, Fridays, Garden, Prague, spring
The host of this challenge is Mama Cormier.
Self had great fun browsing through her archives to come up with these trios. All were taken in her garden except for the arches (obv). Self took that picture somewhere near Prague Castle, May 2019.
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April 9, 2021 at 3:12 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Links, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: artists residency, COVID Reading, favorites, Fridays, Gardens, poetry, seasons, spring, transitions, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Self likes to quote this poem every now and then. She used to think Almeder was Irish (because she first encountered this poem at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig), but she isn’t. She’s American.
MOCK ORANGE, An Excerpt
Everything on the tongue goes stunned bird.
Long past the hissy-fit thralls of April,
rashes of phlox, purple-thistle snowing a little.
And then, like too much love,
there was altogether too much gardenia
in the huddled yards. The heat in a flick of wind
picked itself up and dragged off,
old dog, into the damp cane fields, bee drone,
sighing, sighing of highway, hawks’ cries.
April 8, 2021 at 4:14 pm (Flowers, Links, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: California, clematis, flower photography, Garden, spring, websites
Today’s Bright Squares are two pictures self took from her porch a few minutes ago: both of her clematis montana (“white surprise” and “rubens”) are profusely blooming!
Join the Bright Squares challenge hosted by The Life of B here.
Spring is truly the season for clematis montana!
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