Finished reading: Confession by Leo Tolstoy 📚
I received over a hundred bites from no-see-ems at the shore on Thursday. The next two days I experienced intense pain and aggravating temptation to scratch, but only while laying in bed and in those short, frequent transitions between tasks during the day. A stark call for vigilance in such moments.
Currently reading: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 📚
Currently reading: The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy 📚
Finished reading: The Lost Art of Dying by L.S. Dugdale 📚
My first orchid & a memory: three years ago I put an ice cube on an ill coworker’s office orchid’s soil with an unsigned note “watered 3/1” Then I removed the note, then I removed the ice cube.
Consider
Currently reading: Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings by Mother Maria 📚
The shore resembles the Sonoran desert today, with large deposits of sargassum and shells instead of tumbleweed and shale.
wonky saturation and contrast
Spiderwort springing all over 🌱
Currently reading: Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 📚
Neighbors gathering on the street corner for the town’s annual Christmas golf cart parade 🎄
Plopped Max along the path yesterday and he crawled right to the pink powder puff. This morning I watched a dad stroll by with his two young boys. Each boy picked their own pink flower 🌱
Heard for the first time today “You lay with dogs, you’ll end up with fleas.” Amused me enough to jot it down and was not suprised to find it’s not a new utterance.
Sunshine Mimosa spreading where the sidewalk ends
Learning where/what all the conduits are in my garden, mostly by nicking them with trowels and pitchforks & calling the city public works department to make sure I didn’t cause a gas leak. Planted Frogfruit today in the area where a sidewalk would go & found Miner Bees six inches under.