tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post7910428214319799504..comments2024-03-28T20:19:16.805-04:00Comments on Vicki Lane Mysteries: Earth DayVicki Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-83428957276911818942009-04-22T22:46:00.000-04:002009-04-22T22:46:00.000-04:00Robyn -- I am, indeed, blessed. And happy to share...Robyn -- I am, indeed, blessed. And happy to share my little corner of the world in this way. <br /><br />I put the package in the mail today -- have no idea how long it'll take. The Arabic address raised a few eyebrows in our tiny rural PO, as you might imagine.<br /><br />Phyllis, No snow, thank goodness. The flowers in number twelve are the blooms of lunaria, aka, money plant or honesty. It looks a lot like wild phlox. I'll gladly send you seed at the end of the summer.<br /><br />Re asparagus. We (and by we I mean my husband) mulched last year with composted cow manure and the asparagus has done extra well. I always keep several inches of some kind of mulch on them. We've used littler from the chicken house too.<br /><br />We too were plagued with those wretched beetles last year. Aside from trying to pick the asparagus early and often as well as crushing every beetle I could catch, I haven't got a solution.We had our chicken tractor on the bed for a while, till the spears began to emerge, in hope of the biddies eating the beetle eggs and larvae. We'll see if it did any good . . .Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-34646828419298320662009-04-22T16:55:00.000-04:002009-04-22T16:55:00.000-04:00A couple of questions about your earthly delights....A couple of questions about your earthly delights... First of all, what is that purple flower in picture #12? I see it by the roadsides, and am always tempted to stop and dig some up.<br /><br />Also, how do you tend your asparagus bed? I started one about three years ago, but it's not as productive as I'd like. Do you mulch heavily? Sadly the asparagus beetles found it after the first year, and I haven't had much success in controlling them. <br /><br />Happy Earth Day! Did you have snow this morning?phyllis w.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-81855235387226076462009-04-22T14:11:00.000-04:002009-04-22T14:11:00.000-04:00Wow, Vicki, your photos are amazing. You are livi...Wow, Vicki, your photos are amazing. You are living my life... well the one I want to live anyway. My reality is so far from this and I yearn, long, to live in such a beautiful place. You are a blessed lady.<br />Earth day went by without so much as a whisper here in Egypt. All the good work done in the rest of world is negated by the daily trash of Egypt, I'm afraid. They have not cottoned on to the concept of going green yet.Robyn Kadishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00831614214468480653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-54619552604351188112009-04-22T08:08:00.000-04:002009-04-22T08:08:00.000-04:00Ha, Auntie K.!-- I almost used Innisfree for my Ea...Ha, Auntie K.!-- I almost used Innisfree for my Earth Day poem - in fact, we almost called our farm Innisfree. Such a beautiful and calming piece.<br /><br />I remember the first one too. I renounced paper napkins for daily use. We still use home sewn cloth napkins.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764237570467034909.post-50477934035370844532009-04-22T07:47:00.000-04:002009-04-22T07:47:00.000-04:00Thank you, that was beautiful. I hadn't read it fo...Thank you, that was beautiful. I hadn't read it for a long time and just remembered the first line. Here's another one I like:<br /><br />THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE<br /><br />By William Butler Yeats<br /><br />I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, <br />And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; <br />Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, <br />And live alone in the bee-loud glade.<br />And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, <br />Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; <br />There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, <br />And evening full of the linnet's wings.<br /><br />I will arise and go now, for always night and day <br />I hear the water lapping with low sounds by the shore; <br />While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, <br />I hear it in the deep heart's core.<br /> * ** *** ****<br />If I wake up from a bad dream with my heart pounding (or the dog has a bad dream and barks, with the same effect) I say this poem to myself and it has a calming effect.<br />Happy Earth Day! I remember the first one....Auntie Knickershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08854138665883068803noreply@blogger.com