I got a little too excited last week and brought all my “Hawaii” plants outside. These plants aren’t all from Hawaii, but these are the plants that don’t do well inside the house (I mean, all plants would be happier outside, who am I kidding), but these are the plants that I hang grow lights and try to coax through winter, so they can go outside in the warmer weather and flourish. But I forgot my own rule which was that they go outside after Memorial Day which is like in 2 months! It had been so warm and, honestly, now that we are no longer tied to the school calendar in this house, I don’t know what time of year it is. Now it’s a bit too cold for these tropical plants, but I’m too lazy to bring them inside.
I’m trying to avoid putting up a deer fence to protect my flowers, but deer like all flowers except for daffodils. So here is one for you.
Each morning, I take the compost out and look at my baby trees. They all made it this year and are leafing out. I apparently have to spend more money and not just by bare root trees (the year I did this, only the oak trees survived and they are teeny-tiny. Like smurf sized right now). So I bought the second smallest size – this is a serviceberry tree which has these beautiful flowers. I was talking to Jeremy about my desired tattoo. I want to get a bird from this guy in Baltimore who has a three year waiting list. I want to get a cedar waxwing perched on a serviceberry tree. Jeremy was skeptical of this idea until I asked him to look up the personality of a cedar waxwing – social, not aggressive, sharing, fruit loving, gets slightly tipsy on fermented fruit sometimes, and has a polite courtship where the male offers up a piece of fruit and they pass it back and forth a few times and then the female eats the fruit if she likes him. That’s pretty much us. So now Jeremy’s more enthusiastic about the bird tattoo. (I’m nervous about getting on the waitlist for the artist because one of the questions is..are you local (because people fly in from all over for his work) and can you come in on short notice if there is a cancellation and … my answer would be yes and then…I would need to get the tattoo on like very short notice…so..that makes me nervous.). I’m not getting a tattoo of a cuckoo bird which lays its eggs in another birds nest and then when it hatches, the chick pushes the other hatchling and eggs out of the nest and makes its unconsenting foster parents raise it.
Happy spring. As the world spins terribly on, I rest my hope in nature and the rebirth of good things.
