"The blue orchard mason bees are out and about and some of the entrances to their houses are already newly sealed."

"The blue orchard mason bees are out and about and some of the entrances to their houses are already newly sealed."

spring in a jar After 4 days of feeling like I was living underwater — a heavy cold, congested sinuses, boggy ears — and sleeping most of the daylight hours as well as the darker ones, I spent the week…

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Alt Text: blue and white pottery vase with pink cherry blossom and white plum blossom surrounded by green leaves

Thank you, Catherine!

spring in a jar After 4 days of feeling like I was living underwater — a heavy cold, congested sinuses, boggy ears — and sleeping most of the daylight hours as well as the darker ones, I spent the week…

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Alt Text: blue and white pottery vase with pink cherry blossom and white plum blossom surrounded by green leaves

Just a gorgeous interview.

I loved that novel.

He's the one who visited Epstein with his children.

redux: mornings Note: this was posted 5 years ago. I haven’t seen a weasel for a few years though a deer just grazed her way through the bluebells and fawn lilies. I have been sick in bed this week with some…

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Alt text: a brown weasel with a white underside

redux: mornings Note: this was posted 5 years ago. I haven’t seen a weasel for a few years though a deer just grazed her way through the bluebells and fawn lilies. I have been sick in bed this week with some…

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Alt text: a brown weasel with a white underside

Obituary: Historian known for graveyard tours brought lost flag of Vancouver Island to life One of the late Victoria historian Michael Halleran’s biggest achievements was bringing a flag of the Colony of Vancouver Island back to life.

@forrestpass.bsky.social -- a morning read for you!

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I remember many amazing readings over the years. And brunch with bill....lucky you.

"At every turn in the road, my heart followed, as though a young woman beckoned. Remember this, she was saying, do you remember cutting wild garlic for your soup, do you remember cutting little clumps of primrose to put in the jug on the table of the cottage you finally found for yourself..."

"At every turn in the road, my heart followed, as though a young woman beckoned. Remember this, she was saying, do you remember cutting wild garlic for your soup, do you remember cutting little clumps of primrose to put in the jug on the table of the cottage you finally found for yourself..."

We have a folio of drawings. I keep meaning to frame a couple!

Harold Rhenisch reviews th buk uv lost passwords 1, by bill bissett Harold Rhenisch reviews th buk uv lost passwords 1, by bill bissett (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2025) $24.95 / 9781772016932

I wonder how many of us have a bill bissett story? An origin story? (I met my husband at a reading for bill in 1979. And stood outside a Whitehorse hotel with him in the small hours while a fire alarm rang inside.)

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a soft yellow palimpsest Is it because it’s spring and I was working in my garden most of last weekend, until it began to rain, working mostly on the raspberry beds, transplanting some small canes to better locations…

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Alt text: clumps of soft yellow primroses with a few green leaves

a soft yellow palimpsest Is it because it’s spring and I was working in my garden most of last weekend, until it began to rain, working mostly on the raspberry beds, transplanting some small canes to better locations…

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Alt text: clumps of soft yellow primroses with a few green leaves

And look, @snowhydro.bsky.social, you're there! Congratulations!

Ok. You win.

the week’s compost Looking (and its variants): A weekend in the garden, trying to wrangle the raspberry beds into shape, looking at the buds on the apple tree, watching slow queen bumblebees gathering pollen and nect…

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Alt text: Wild fawn lilies growing in green moss

Thanks, Sarah.

Thanks for reposting, @carolbrisebois.bsky.social

Thank you for reposting, @jeans-sands.bsky.social

the week’s compost Looking (and its variants): A weekend in the garden, trying to wrangle the raspberry beds into shape, looking at the buds on the apple tree, watching slow queen bumblebees gathering pollen and nect…

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Alt text: Wild fawn lilies growing in green moss

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

"It’s also evident that Trump wanted to come back into office in part to revenge himself on a country that in 2020 had rejected him, the way an ex-partner sometimes becomes a murderous stalker of the woman who dared to escape him..."
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"I am thinking again of the line between story and scandal, a line drawn with charcoal and smudged at times..."

Thank you, @buriedinprint.bsky.social and @rwpickard.bsky.social, for sharing this post!

"I am thinking again of the line between story and scandal, a line drawn with charcoal and smudged at times..."