Garden-y and Non-Garden-y

– I think I’ll wake up tomorrow morning or the next (or the next), and BAM — the apple tree will be decked out in blossoms. There must be at least fifty buds, and it’s a tiny tree (maybe six feet tall, at its tippiest top). I wonder how many will set into apples, and how many the tree can actually sustain.
– Yesterday, I mowed the lawn for the first time this year. The lilacs are starting to bloom, and all the perennials are up. Summer! Let’s celebrate with some rain and a ten-degree (F) drop in temperature, okay? Starting tomorrow.
– I’ve never been able to get a photo of my side yard that makes it look as charming as it seems to me. This one might be the best yet. There’s just so much to detract from its niceness, though — meters on the house, power lines near the street (this was taken from the backyard looking towards the front), all the junk I’ve left lying around (oops). I also have to sink those pavers into the ground, now that it’s not frozen. But it’s a nice strip of garden, walled in by the (MONSTROUS) hedge of lilacs. This time last year, it was such a wasteland.
– Even though it was objectively A Perfect Day outside, I didn’t spend that much time outdoors. I was reading submissions for work and did a bit of decoration/organization inside. Just shuffling things from here to there. I have a lot of ‘stuff’ — but luckily, I think most of it’s nice stuff.
– As you’ll know, the cats and I spend most of our time on the porch during the weeks/months it’s neither too hot nor too cold (right now is prime porch-sitting season). I work on my laptop while sitting in an armchair a lot of the time, and Beany often finds any available lap space and curls up on it. And I often take a picture by holding up my camera and using autofocus.
I may have dropped the camera on her head today. While she was deeply asleep. It had the big lens on, too. She freaked out (as you would) and ran all the way through the house and down to the basement, where she hid from me while I pleaded with her. She assumed she had done something bad and that I was angry (and chose to demonstrate it by dropping a camera on her head), so I had to convince her she wasn’t in trouble — and that I wasn’t going to drop anything else on her. We made up, and I’m going to make sure to keep a better grip on the camera in the future.
– I still have four copies of my ‘Grow’ zine available — you know you want one! Just read the enthusiastic reviews in the comments of the last post. If you can’t trust Rob and my mother to be unbiased, well… um… then buy it anyway. Thanks.