What I like about bulbs, which I planted on Sunday, is their utter forgetability. I dig a hole, drop them in, leave their spot unmarked, and forget. The cold and short days of winter will pass — some sparkling days swiftly, most days grindingly — and then one day I’ll be walking up to the [...]
Archive for the ‘leaf’ Category
- Bulbs and boxes
Posted in book, leaf, teach on November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
- Peeling bark
Posted in leaf on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the Acer griseum (a maple) in our front yard, a nice small tree. Yes, it’s supposed to do that.
- Holly
Posted in leaf on November 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
P.S. Although not bittersweet vine, these red berries are for you, Mom!
- At long last: grackles
Posted in change, fear, leaf on November 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
At long last — weeks after I had given up the hope that I would see them this year — they returned.
As I stood at the kitchen sink, drank from a cup, and stared absent-mindedly into the backyard, I faintly heard a chorus of chattering. I heard it before I recognized it.
My attention tracked the [...]
- It’s Sunday.
Posted in change, labor, leaf on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
And this is rest and spirituality enough for me.
- Goodbye, summer
Posted in change, leaf on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
- Store bought manure
Posted in leaf, word on September 21, 2009 | 8 Comments »
In the first episode of season six of The Office (watch it here, on Hulu), Michael spread false rumors about several employees in order to cloak his having leaked the secret about Stanley’s affair. He figured if he spread a LOT of gossip, no one would know what was true and what was not. [...]
- Harvest
Posted in experiment, labor, leaf on September 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Rich, my neighbor — husband of Julie, father of Georgie, and looker-alike of this guy — walked by and asked me if the sunflowers were ready to be harvested for seed.
Yes.
However… “I decided not to harvest them,” I replied to Rich, “and that I’d leave them for the wildlife.” I told him about a Downy [...]
- In the pines, in the pines
Posted in beginning, blueberry, leaf, travel, word on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“What did you find out?” That was the question I was asked when Jimmy and I returned from our one-day field trip to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, to find Elizabeth White’s house, Suningive, and explore Historic Whitesbog Village, a state trust which preserves a turn-of-the-century company town built around cranberry and blueberry farming.
The [...]
- Habitat
Posted in leaf on August 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I planted the sunflowers for me, and also for passers-by, but it seems that the creature most enjoying them is a wild rabbit. It’s there in the morning for a couple of hours and then later in the afternoon, resting in the shade.
It seems to have its own spot: a bare patch of dirt among [...]
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I'm Jane Kokernak, a writer who teaches college students and also gardens, makes things, and putters around. Here I blog about all that and sometimes digress; favorite people make an occasional appearance, too. Send e-mail to jane dot kokernak @ gmail dot com. -
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