In the wake of speaking out at the Waldorf lecture, I was very sick. Already on that Friday evening I knew I was about to be ill. On Sunday I could hardly get out of bed. Ethan got out From My Experience by Louis Bromfield, and read me parts he knew I needed to hear. …
Month: September 2015
The Tower
Mrs. Gophy, our neighbor Gopher Tortoise, had a little one hatch out this year. Last year there were three, this year there was only one that we saw. Newborn tortoises are so unbelievably small! Clothilde named it Sandy before it crawled away. An interesting thing happened to me last week. It all started Thursday evening…
Mabon/Michaelmas
This week is Michaelmas, the equinox, the start of autumn. It’s still hot, but not like some years. In the evenings, the wind sweeps over the east hill at the farm, and blows cool. It blows colored, dying leaves down, too, and twists the yellowing bramble bushes. Some years we really celebrated this holy time,…
Fall begins with Leaves
I used to laugh sarcastically when anyone mentioned September being autumn here in Florida. It always seemed to me that we never quite had anything but autumn, starting in November, and ending in February. Some years there are a few weeks of actual “winter” in January, but autumn certainly didn’t start in September. I remember…
Perfect Gardening Days
Ferocious squash vine Saddleback caterpillar on the old hammock I’ve been having writer’s block. Everything seems so rainy and boring – hardly worth writing about. I get my kids fed, and chores done, and then I escape into a Diana Wynn Jones book. I am in the middle of The Dark Lord of Derkholm,…
Rain, Rain, Rain
A gorgeous Imperial moth that was in the barn Really the only one word sums up the past few days – sopping. Buckets of rain. Three inches in one afternoon (in the space of a couple of hours). That was the day I felt like I was walking through a sprinkler. The afternoon sun was…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 