I took my camera into the garden earlier this week. Gradually I am shaking off sloth. Today I managed at least five jobs I have let slip for over a month.
This evening I started on the 2009 volume of my online garden journal which is now in its eleventh year. Only the January page works at the moment and I suspect the link to the 2008 volume is broken but as it 2.30am British time I am leaving it and going to bed.
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Wednesday 21 January 2009
Snowdrop time is here again
Snowdrops have been late to appear here in Leicestershire, but we have had some sun over the past week although our nights have been frosty. When I went into the back garden yesterday I noticed that the snowdrops in my mini wood were showing white although not exactly in full bloom. I have taken no garden pictures so far this January. I must remember to take my camera outside tomorrow
Sunday 18 January 2009
January ennui
I feel disenchanted with my camera. I suspect it is a case of the old cliché - A bad gardener blames her tools, but whatever the cause, I didn’t chase round the garden last December snapping every open flower, every tree glowing with gold in the low sun, every unseasonal event.
On the assumption that most gardeners who visit my online Garden Journal rarely look beyond the photos, I have bowed to another cliché, a picture is worth as many words as ships launched by Trojan Helen’s cockney boat, and usually use few words but several pictures in the monthly entries.
This proved awkward for the entry for December 2008, which I didn’t get round to creating until mid January 2009. The only half-way relevant photo I found on my camera was one of three branches pruned from my Beauty Pine and tied together as a Christmas tree substitute.
Not only did I have no more pictures but since I had spent the whole of December from the 1st onwards, involved with family and parties, with a slight interval for a stay in hospital, I had no gardening news either.
Now, if only I could shunt any gardener visiting the site over to a blog, I thought, as I surveyed the meagre page, they would: neither expect pictures nor expect the author to stick to a theme.
So I dug up a blog application I had purchased at least two years ago, but had never learnt to use, and as before found I still couldn’t get it to work so I hunted around for the commercial blogging host I thought I had once tried but had forgotten about after an episode of TGA (transient global amnesia a medical happening doctors diagnose but can't explain) and this is the result.
Next entry I hope will actually have something in it pertinent to gardening.
On the assumption that most gardeners who visit my online Garden Journal rarely look beyond the photos, I have bowed to another cliché, a picture is worth as many words as ships launched by Trojan Helen’s cockney boat, and usually use few words but several pictures in the monthly entries.
This proved awkward for the entry for December 2008, which I didn’t get round to creating until mid January 2009. The only half-way relevant photo I found on my camera was one of three branches pruned from my Beauty Pine and tied together as a Christmas tree substitute.
Not only did I have no more pictures but since I had spent the whole of December from the 1st onwards, involved with family and parties, with a slight interval for a stay in hospital, I had no gardening news either.
Now, if only I could shunt any gardener visiting the site over to a blog, I thought, as I surveyed the meagre page, they would: neither expect pictures nor expect the author to stick to a theme.
So I dug up a blog application I had purchased at least two years ago, but had never learnt to use, and as before found I still couldn’t get it to work so I hunted around for the commercial blogging host I thought I had once tried but had forgotten about after an episode of TGA (transient global amnesia a medical happening doctors diagnose but can't explain) and this is the result.
Next entry I hope will actually have something in it pertinent to gardening.
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