Category: Archeology of Home
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Rhododendron Haiku
Another serenade to seasonality this Saturday in late May. I offer you a rhododendron haiku to honor this temperate turn from spring to a precocious preview of summery days ahead. Rhodos invite optimism. An audacious pinkish-purply-red extravaganza floating above a sea of green. A swell of polished rhododendron leaves creating a sea of Lily-of-the-Valley leaves.…
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Sometimes Sailing
Sometimes sailing? Yes, back to my home/sailboat pairing. Home as sailboat. Homing as sailing. A recurring exploration. Inspired by recent adventures with my extraordinary wife, best friend, and co-adventurer. Sometimes SailingSpringtime and autumnsunrise and sunsethoming and dwelling(and sometimes sailing)pair impossiblewith the possiblesurging, subsidingbeginning, endingcoming, departing healing, harboringand adventuring. Sailing home, coursing forward. And away. At…
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Asparagus Officinalis
Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis) is an early season perennial vegetable that pops out of Rosslyn’s still chilly soil sometime in May. Each year it is a harbinger of spring, arriving at just the right time to reassure us that the long Adirondack winter is retreating; that mud season is mostly past tense; and a happy, holistic gardening season is underway. Rosslyn’s asparagus bed was one of the very…
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Pear Blossoms
Pear blossoms are poems in which poire rhymes with pure and love floats into longevity like the fragrance of springtime mixed with the sweet dessert of late summer. So surely flirtatious is seasonality’s flowering as we wander the orchard honoring varieties and contemplating menus. [Another] blissful burst from Rosslyn’s orchard abuzz with honeybees and hummingbirds……
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Imperfection
Today I offer you a scrapbook meditation on imperfection not only as inevitable but also as appealing and valuable. And for habitués, you won’t be surprised by my mind meandering into the humbling wonders of wabi-sabi. The imperfect moments shape us as much as the sunny ones. (Source: Frosty Ferrying into Rosslyn) With May showers flirting,…
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Apple Blossoms
A prose poem for the optimism of apple blossoms (and the pollinators who ensure that this beauty will bear fruit!)
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Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to three of the most marvelous mothers (and most meaningful influences on yours truly!)
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Shadblow Blossoms
Another harbinger of spring, the shadblow have blossomed, brightening still virtually leafless windbreaks and meadow margins.
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Ready for Wild Ramps
A ramp (wild leek) scramble is a hungry forager’s perfect springtime breakfast!
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Asparagus Sunup to Sundown
Eureka! Or, better yet… Spargelzeit! Join me in celebrating asparagus time, one of my favorite highlights of the seasonal culinary calendar. For a month or two our asparagus cravings are sated sunup to sundown. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Why so obsessive? Because the season is short. Because these delicate shoots look like and taste like the quintessence of…
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Trillium Time
Are you familiar with one of our more exotic wild flora that dazzles Adirondack Coast woodlands this time of year?
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Life is a Garden
This time of year, especially on weekends, my mind melds with moist soil, with the earliest hints of life, the first hint of bud burst, earliest spring blossoms, seed sorting, plant plotting, spring start coddling,… Seasonal synapses begin to fire. I start to count weeks and days working backwards from probable last frost. And I…