Weekly Words

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork,

and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. -William Shakespeare

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The Harvest Season

Weekly Words To Live By  from Notes From A Cottage Industry

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Seasonal Sundays from The Tablescaper

“If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest”

~ Douglas Jerrold, English humorist

Oh, To Sit Under An Olive Tree

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Notes From A Cottage Industry.


…I like them all, but especially the olive. For what it symbolizes, first of all, peace
with its leaves and joy with its golden oil."
-   Aldous Huxley


Maybe someday I will sit under my olive trees, but for now this will have to do ......

Do you have a favorite tree to sit under? Or a hammock to lie in?

Take more time to relax in your garden ..... it's a hard lesson I'm still working on.

May Showers?

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If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m.

Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.~William Lyon Phelps

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I've never seen a storm like this in the 30+ years I've lived in California.

More like a midwest summer thunderstorm with some hail thrown in.

Yes, there was thunder and lightning and probably a couple of inches of rain

in the matter of an hour.

The skies began to darken and there was that funny light that sometimes

accompanies the coming of a tornado.  Creepy.

I didn't go out during the storm, not gonna get the new camera wet!

(I'm a little sensitive about cameras and water, since my last Nikon

was drowned while sailing on our boat in Mexico about 5 years ago

and I had been using one of my son's cameras ever since.)

Lots of water standing around, most of the paths in the garden were actual

running streams and the "dry creek" on the back of the property was 

roaring along like a mountain creek in the Spring. Lots of the mulch we

spread this morning had migrated to other places!

I walked down to check the koi pond and couldn't figure out from a distance, I'm very near

sighted, what the heck was on the plants.  This is a form of giant Gunnera, with a smaller

cousin to it's left.  Check out the hail in my "tropical" garden!

The roses and most everything else in the garden will recover and probably not show

any lasting damage from the hail ...... the succulents are another thing.  I have

succulents still showing the scars from a hail storm 10 years ago in my old garden.

They are troopers though, and will only be pock marked and not down for the count.

The clouds began to part ....... 

And the garden did survive. You can see from these pictures that the grass has

started to turn from green to brown as the warm (er) months approach.

Warmer months?  I am beginning to lose faith.  It is May 22,2010 in Northern

California at 4:30pm and it is 46 degrees and there is HAIL all over!