Summertime

Summer Solstice – A Lush Green Wish

by Angeliska on June 21, 2011

I kneel in the night on a high hill in the back country, I bow my head, and make this fervent wish, with the memory of green tendrils wrapped around my heart, squeezing there, holding me fast against the earth. (…)

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Summer Solstice – Poppytime

by Angeliska on June 21, 2010

I haven’t written about our garden in a little while, possibly because I’ve been too busy enjoying working in it, and getting my hands dirty to remember to photograph all the transformations. Poppytime has passed now, and it’s a pity! (…)

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Strawberry Honey

by Angeliska on June 28, 2009

I remember a few years ago, in New Orleans, I bought a carton of strawberries at the Farmer’s Market. I had become somewhat ambivalent about them over the years, having eaten far too many over-inflated, pale and watery mutants with (…)

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New Orleans in August

by Angeliska on August 30, 2007

The calendar tilted and swung and we found ourselves back in New Orleans in August, two years afterwards.. Rolling in on a golden afternoon, sun pulsing a steady white-hot drumbeat as we drove down familiar streets. Hello old neighborhood, devoid (…)

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Juli in Luilekkerland

by Angeliska on July 16, 2006

Another amazing gigantor bug on my house, with wee baby hitchhiker to boot! She was about as long as my palm, I’d reckon. Sweet Amelia hiding behind frog bones. We had such a lovely, perfect day last week- visiting the (…)

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