Buh-Bye May, Hallo June!
So, May sort of came, beat up everybody, and left. It feels like it should still be April 17th. But it’s not. It’s the first of June. In 2019. How’d that happen? I didn’t get as much done this year … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Noony’s Blog
N Is For No! I Doan Wanna! Which Is For All Us Wiff Colds…
Dear Reader, I hate being sick. I hate it so much that I’m a horrible patient. I have been better, in recent years, about practicing good self care like going to bed when I’m sick and eating good stuffs. So … Continue reading →
J Is For Joie de Vivre, Which Is French for Birds Feeding
Okay, it’s not really French for birds feeding; please my French speaking readers, don’t converge on me. And if you don’t speak French, joie de vivre is translated to English as, keen enjoyment of life, as in, “they were filled … Continue reading →
I Is For Ivy, That Covers and Hides; The Groundcover of All Things, It Moves Like the Tides…
I have a confession to make: I adore ivy. When I lived in Chicago, I moved into a brick “three-flat,” which is Chicagoan for a brownstone with four apartments. No, that doesn’t make sense; this is because the basement apartment … Continue reading →
H Is For Horticulture, the Science of Plants
This is a long view, just down from the Tateuchi Viewing Pavilion, toward the Ravine Experience. The piece in the distance looks like a high-backed faerie throne. The water goes under the walkway; I stood on a pathway bridge to … Continue reading →
G Is For Gators, Gardeners’ Friends; and G Is For Glens, Full of Rhododendrons; and G Is For Goldfish, Swimming in Ponds – Yes, It’s An A to Z Challenge Post! Welcome, Good Friend!
As I wandered onto the Botanical Garden grounds today, I mulled over my choices for “G.” I mean, Garden seemed too easy. Right? I came around a corner in the path and seriously, THIS was sitting there. Waiting for me. … Continue reading →
F Is For Frog: Me-Deep, Me-Deep
And so, Dear Reader, we come to the granddaddy of all frogs, the mammoth of Bellevue, the wart-encrusted bronze of doom, the ohmygoshwhatisthat of my morning stroll: this, then, would be the frog. Or toad, but today’s the F day, … Continue reading →
E Is For Entrance, and Comings and Goings – and, a Poem for David Bridger
Welcome to the Bellevue Botanical Garden and today’s letter for the A to Z Challenge, E Is For Entrance! Believe it or not, the Garden is host to a variety of majestic entrance points. In Asian garden philosophy, and in … Continue reading →
D Is For the Scariest Predator of the Garden
The life of an amateur photographer is fraught with difficulties: not getting hit by a car when taking pictures of the trees along a lane (nevermind that the lane is one of four on a major thoroughfare) or chased by … Continue reading →
Carpe Carp! And Other C Words for the Letter C – on the A to Z Blog Challenge
Okay, technically this is from an earlier post where I shared what the QR code looks like. I had some delays getting my camera downloaded, and did so tonight. This is what the little QR codes look like, scattered around … Continue reading →