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End of June Front Yard
Flickr Photo originally uploaded by The County Clerk.
I am insane, but happily so.
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I am short on words these days. Everything is very odd, but quite pleasant in its own way.
The House, End of June 2009
Flickr Photo originally uploaded by The County Clerk.
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slightly modified version from the original
D'où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous;1
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Created in Tahiti, it is currently housed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,
Paul Gauguin 1897
Image Source - Public Domain
"Paul Gaugin left France for Tahiti in 1891. He was "looking for a society more elemental and simplistic than that of his native [land]."i Twelve years later, in 1903, Gauguin was dead, weakened by alcohol and rife with syphilis. He was 54 years old.
Three hundred years earlier, another Frenchman, Michel de Montaigne, published the first edition of his voluminous Essais (Essays): "a collection of a large number of short subjective treatments of various topics [first] published2 in 1580."ii Twelve years later, in 1592, Montaigne was dead. He was 59 years old.3
I have been thinking a good bit lately of these two Frenchmen... and of my own life and inevitable death. I am 41 years old.
Halloween at Tudor Oaks Farm
Flickr Photo originally uploaded by The County Clerk.
Tudor Oaks Farm
Remy & Hank
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It is Halloween and I thought I'd share something appropriate that I received in my inbox: a lecture from The Teaching Company. (I've written about them before... and I love 'em. They package lectures on the most wonderful things (for DVD and Audio) and I consume a great many of them.) This particular lecture is a "free gift" to me and "all of my friends" for Halloween. This clearly includes YOU, my reader-friends.
It is an impassioned Robert Greenberg talking about Hector Berlioz's spectacular work: An Episode in the Life of the Artist (which is usually referred to by its subtitle: Symphonie fantastique). Wonderful. This is one Greenberg's lectures from his "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" course. And of course, I've uploaded some music too! (it won't load until you click.)
For no selfish reasons, I encourage you to look into this fountain of magic.
Remy
This is "Remy", formerly Jaguar-Friend. He is a six year old Thoroughbred gelding. And as of today, he is mine. A beautiful boy, no?
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Me, At The Helm
Flickr Photo originally uploaded by The County Clerk.
Though the vessel is smaller than that to which I am accustomed, it is nimble and delightful
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I've just returned from a little break from things. I journeyed up to the North Woods to see what I might see.
Fountain Idea
Flickr Photo originally uploaded by The County Clerk.
This is not my photograph
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I wasn't sure where to put it (here gardens or on the renovation blog) but I've written a thing about my back gardens to be. In the end, it felt like a renovation story. It is here.
Narcissus jonquilla 'Pipit' (Miniature)
Flickr Photo originally uploaded by The County Clerk.
This intoxicatingly fragrant miniature beauty is a Division 7 Narcissus: the jonquils.
Narcissus jonquilla 'Pipit'
7 YYW-W
This is what the bulbs look like.
I'm just delighted with this understated little thing.
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Let the insanity begin anew: I put my bulbs away for Winter color. I've put up my new Daff list, but it is quite a bit smaller than last year's insanity. Truth be told, I lost MANY of them. I'm going a different way this winter. Tazettas. Jonquillas. And of course some other things that caught my eye.
The images are a brief recap of last winter.
Burgundy Gooseneck Loosestrife ???
Flickr Photo originally uploaded by The County Clerk./span>
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Could this be Burgundy Gooseneck Loosestrife
Lysimachia atropurpurea 'Beaujolais'
I remember planting 'Beaujolais'... just not where THIS mystery plant is growing... and besides, it immediately died.
This plant isn't Burgundy either.
But it LOOKS sort of like Lysimachia clethroides (Gooseneck Loosestrife).
I don't think I'm right.
Could I have planted something and not made a note of it? Is such a thing possible?
Yes.
Anyone have any idea as to what this little thing actually is?
Lighting The House
Originally uploaded by The County Clerk.
Among the very first things I did when I started working with my front gardens was buy landscape lights and run low voltage cable. Last night, over a year after I first ran the cables, I was finally able to turn those lights on. I wrote about it over at Recreational Renovations: We Live and We Learn.
Bottom line: I believe I still have some work to do.
A Summer Garden 2
Flickr Photo originally uploaded by The County Clerk.
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