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I picked up another Amaryllis at Walgreen Pharmacy early in June. The foliage and the buds were pale with only a hint of pink. I didn’t have much confidence that she’d turn out too well, But the configuration of the plant was good. At least, she wasn’t She-Devil Red… It has two stalks and ten buds on one bulb! The stalks are well-proportioned and sturdy No, long, lanky stalks and leaves here…. Read More
Making a Fist Naomi Shihab Nye For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me, a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear. I was seven, I lay in the car watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass. My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin. ‘How do you know if you are going to die?’… Read More
I swore that I would never post again until I answered every wonderful comment on my last post. I am still well, but I have had a few small complications that kept me from concentrating. I apologize. I just had to share this birthday wish with you. I laughed and laughed. A dear friend, who shares my macabre sense of humor, sent it to me today. Many kind friends sent good wishes…. Read More
Winter Rose I feel a bit ridiculous sharing my health status, but I wanted to share it with all of you who have been so supportive and kind to me for all of these months. You and I thought I would be dead “within six months to less than a year” according to the official prognosis. I had an x-ray last week to rule out a pneumonia. The radiologist could not figure… Read More
Whoever is in charge of the Climate Control Dial Has turned it in the wrong direction. If I thought it might work, I’d do a sun dance in the street. Instead, I offer a few photos of my Valentine’s Day flower from Charlie. Here’s to warmer days ahead! 🙂
She Kept A Parrot 
Death of a Staghorn
We celebrate Birth and Life. We avert our eyes from Death and Dying. We see life in Kodachrome. We see Death in monochrome. After the recent freeze, I went into the garden on a mission to study death and dying in the plant life there. I made many photographs of what I saw. I want to share the death of the Staghorn here. After the frost, The Staghorn anchor leaves changed from tender green… Read More
Category: Death and Dying, Photography, Photos by George, Plants and Trees Tags: Death, Frost, Garden, Philosophy, photographs, photography, Photos, Plants, Seasons, Social Commentary, Staghorn Fern, Stories, Winter