I believe someone may need to give her lenses a wipe. I say "lenses" because the camera in my phone does indeed have three lenses. Once again, though, I have to say that the detail I can get with that camera never ceases to amaze me.
And that is the first blossom I have seen on the spirea which is planted beside the old photo studio which does get enough sun to bloom. It's covered with buds and it won't be long until the entire bush looks like it's snow-covered from a distance. For those of you who are not familiar with this plant, it is a bridal wreath spirea and you can see why. Each one of the tiny blooms would make a perfect wreath for a little mouse bride. Or Barbie, I guess, if your mind tends towards that image.
Either or both.
It did not seem to matter much to my inner body clock to get up, if not an hour earlier this morning, then at least a half hour earlier. Even by the reset time it wasn't obscenely late. Especially not for a Sunday.
Perhaps I was just ready to get up. I'd had a terrible dream that is still shaking me. I would call it a nightmare. It was one of those dreams where the absolute reality of an emotion is so strong that it comes back over and over again over the course of a day and probably much longer. However, the power of the emotion does finally fade and I know that and I know why I had the dream and I know what it means although there was one aspect of it that I am not quite sure about and I feel certain that I am aware of the reason for that too.
Some dreams do not require the insight of a therapist to interpret. Or, as I sometimes say, "No need to call Freud on this one."
But all of this is to say I was ready to get up.
We had the Sunday breakfast and life was leisurely for awhile. It seems that Glen's recovery wasn't entirely miraculous in that he is still having upper respiratory stuff with a bit of a headache and a cough and he just does not feel good. He shouldn't have gone to the drag race thing yesterday but he did and that's water under the bridge or sinus drainage down the throat. Whatever. He doesn't have a fever but if he continues to feel a little off, I'll make him do a Covid test. This could all be allergies. The pollen is starting to blow about. Soon everything will be coated with yellow and everyone will be complaining and coughing and sneezing and walking around with weeping red eyes and all the car washes will be working overtime.
All I really did today of any worth was to dig up that one spirea that was too near where I want to plant the azalea. And it was not easy. The hardest part was trying to free the roots from the very, very large roots of the oak tree right beside it. After an hour in which I had almost freed the plant from earth but could go no further with it, I asked Mr. Moon to help me and he did.
I think I have found where I'm now going to plant THAT. Moving plants around is like moving furniture around when you get a new piece but don't want to get rid of whatever it's replacing. Know what I mean? And you can't just leave a healthy spirea beside the curb although I would gladly leave all those aloes some place where I never had to think about them again. Aloes are too juicy to burn and if I just pile them up in the woods, they're going to root and the problem will only be transferred and intensified. Not solved. Bagging them and taking them to the dump seems ridiculous. Also dangerous.
Perhaps I'll have Mr. Moon put an ad on FB Marketplace to give them away to anyone who wants to come and dig them up. I wonder if I'd get any takers.
Boy. Am I rambling tonight.
Yes. Yes I am.
Obviously I really have nothing to talk about.
I should probably just go make our supper. I don't even have any more pictures. I do see that the wisteria is starting to show signs of life. I'll take a picture tomorrow.
Until then...
Love...Ms. Moon
Ooh, wisteria! There are old trellises and old wisteria all over town. Can’t wait to see that. You’ve reminded me I probably should clean the lenses on my iPhone. I like rearranging furniture and plants. Furniture is easier.
ReplyDeleteFurniture IS easier. At least it is if you have a helper.
DeleteI will be happy to see pictures of your wisteria! I know it's basically a nuisance plant but what a glorious nuisance.
I’ve never thought of wisteria as a nuisance plant, but I guess others do. We planted it and trained it over a trellis that crossed our driveway in San Diego. It was stunning.The people we sold to removed it. However, they also did a hack job on the landscaping out front, so what did they know!
DeleteI surely would never remove it but I could do a little better at trimming it back. Lines have been crossed...
DeletePeople post on our local free cycle about shrubs to dig up, and they're usually taken, even big ones. Such a saving over a nursery cost, I expect.
ReplyDeleteMr moon isn't as well as he thinks! I hope he tests. Because if it's covid it's spreadable.
He tested today. Negatory. Which is good.
DeleteI'm still pondering the free aloes to whoever digs 'em up situation.
We had a bridal wreath spirea in the backyard of the house I grew up in and it was my Mom's favorite. Thanks for bringing that sweet memory back to me this morning, Mary.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome! They are just the prettiest little flowers, aren't they?
DeleteCan you make Glen rest? Because he really has been going non stop and this may be his body telling him to take a beat. I prescribe a few sleeps in his recliner in front of the TV to the music of basketball games.
ReplyDeleteMAKE Glen rest? Oh my god, no. He does take a little nap or two during the day and evening in the recliner but they're not very long.
DeleteA little mouse bride! Like the mice in Beatrix Potter's books, so charming.
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes! Like Hunca Munca. I love those stories so much.
DeleteI had a spirea until that first arctic blast which froze it and killed it although it took about three years to actually die. I haven't got another one because as long as we are having dips in the 20s I'm afraid the same will happen. If Steve lived in your neighborhood you could set it out on the cirb and he would rescue it.
ReplyDeleteMy spirea have survived a lot of pretty cold weather. You might want to try again.
DeleteI had the SAME thought about Steve!
That spirea is beautiful. We have spirea here, but of course, not with flowers like that. More like the poor cousin of your spirea:)
ReplyDeleteI hope Mr. Moon feels better soon. I know he's not good at sitting still, but sometimes you have to, your body needs time to fight the infection and heal itself.
If you had those aloe's here, people would be taking them off your hands, not problem. Here they're indoor plants though. I have one in my dining room that a neighbor gave me.
We had a shit day yesterday, weather wise. It was so windy. We have a dead Swedish aspen in our yard and some of the dead branches blew off. Fortunately no damage was done but I did notice some shingles from the roof on the ground. Sigh.
Is your spirea a different variety do you think? It must be to survive your winters.
DeletePeople would probably like the aloe here but I'm way too lazy to dig it up and pot it for people. I'd need a hundred pots and I'm not kidding.
Glen doesn't believe in rest. He just goes and goes.
When it gets really windy here I always say, "Well, Mother Nature is trimming the trees again." Sorry about those shingles though.
Your white spirea is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteFinding the perfect spot for a new plant takes time. I place a stake and think about the placement before actually planting. The stake might move a few times until the plant arrives at the perfect spot.
Try the ad solution for getting rid of extra/unwanted plants. I did this when I had more daylilies than I wanted. The ad said: free daylilies, call xxx, to schedule and bring your shovel. Lots of people called and the help to dig and remove the daylilies was great.
I wander around and stand in places and think about things and feel how it feels in certain spots when I'm deciding where to plant things. And if something can be planted, it can usually be dug up and replanted.
DeleteI'm definitely thinking of offering the aloes on Market Place.
The spirea is so pretty. There is one just a couple of minutes walk across a different section of yard here but I haven't been to see if it is flowering at all, it may not be right now with autumn coming on. I remember the porch trellis covered wisteria we had in a different home in 1983-85, the buzzing bees were so loud and non-stop. We loved sitting out there on the big old couch.
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