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catsittingstillWay back when in spring (which seems very far away now, in the torrid heat of the Tennessee summer) we planted two more trees in the ongoing campaign to discourage the lawn. And around the roots of the new trees lay bare dirt, which tends to look particularly dispirited in the spring rain. And in the store a day or so later I happened to pass by some flower packets.
Now I'm not much of a gardener. But the people who design those flower packets must work their hearts out trying to get just the right picture of the purported contents, with just the right matching or contrasting color of edging, and just the right font for the names and so on--and it worked. In that grey spring day, in that grey concrete and steel store, the flowers looked... alive and beautiful, and it was only a dollar or two per packet, and really, how much trouble could it be.
I bought three packets; don't even remember their names. I brought them home, got a tupperware down from the shelf to hold those tiny tiny seeds, and poured the miniscule rattling contents of three bright paper packets in, and mixed them with a tentative fingertip. I took them outside, sprinkled them on the bare dirt, scratched the dirt a little, and remembered to water them three times, on three separate days, I will have you know, before I forgot about them.
Now I have flowers but I have no idea what they are, except the batchelors button. Here, you tell me:
Tree 1
Tree 2
Bonus Zinnias
Flickr has gotten incredibly convenient to use, since the new version of the Mac OS (on the newer laptop) will post to flickr automagically. I like that a lot.
Do you ever wish there was a place like Flickr only for your sound recordings? I suppose it would just take too much bandwidth. (Though I sometimes use Google Docs as a sort of drop box--but you can't actually *listen* to them that way, the way you can look at pictures on flickr.)
Now I'm not much of a gardener. But the people who design those flower packets must work their hearts out trying to get just the right picture of the purported contents, with just the right matching or contrasting color of edging, and just the right font for the names and so on--and it worked. In that grey spring day, in that grey concrete and steel store, the flowers looked... alive and beautiful, and it was only a dollar or two per packet, and really, how much trouble could it be.
I bought three packets; don't even remember their names. I brought them home, got a tupperware down from the shelf to hold those tiny tiny seeds, and poured the miniscule rattling contents of three bright paper packets in, and mixed them with a tentative fingertip. I took them outside, sprinkled them on the bare dirt, scratched the dirt a little, and remembered to water them three times, on three separate days, I will have you know, before I forgot about them.
Now I have flowers but I have no idea what they are, except the batchelors button. Here, you tell me:
Tree 1
Tree 2
Bonus Zinnias
Flickr has gotten incredibly convenient to use, since the new version of the Mac OS (on the newer laptop) will post to flickr automagically. I like that a lot.
Do you ever wish there was a place like Flickr only for your sound recordings? I suppose it would just take too much bandwidth. (Though I sometimes use Google Docs as a sort of drop box--but you can't actually *listen* to them that way, the way you can look at pictures on flickr.)
