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Category: The Garden
Summer has come
After an extraordinary (and I mean that rhetorically as well as factually) damp and cool late winter, we skipped spring and now find ourselves in the summertime. It’s warm (and occasionally hot), rain makes ceremonial appearances and then retires, and corn is growing like bamboo. […]
What now? Or, some questions on the future along with a few pictures.
At some point, you signed-up to this email newsletter or logged onto the website in the hopes of hearing and seeing more about the little house in southern Normandy known as La Bucherie. Sorry for the disappointment. I’ve grown disillusioned of late with writing generally, […]
Butterflies amidst the grass
Back in the olden-days, LaBu was optimized for visitor quantity, with four bedrooms, all of which at some point or another functioned as parts of a hotel or gite. We found during the course of The Changes, in addition to some truly atrocious—and at times […]
2020: c’est fini
You know how at the beginning of every year, you sit down and make a list of everything you’re going to accomplish and when? And then, you work through that list methodically, checking off each item as you gleefully turn to the next? Yeah. Me […]
Falling into the end of the year
Fall has arrived, but it seems late this year—probably something we all will gradually get used to saying year after year until we simply stop noting the death of the remembered world of the Before Times. In early September the butterflies suffered a mass confusion […]
Stones, stairs, and sorties
The sunlight, captured, and reflected back into the north-facing room where I sit, hints at what’s to come over the next few days—temperatures in the mid-teens to somewhere around 20. Blue skies as well, or so the sky oracles promise, which is sort of too […]
The Mania
I am a regular enough reader of what one might call The Literature—as well as a wizened veteran—to know that gardeners suffer from a seasonal disorder that clouds their minds, and their judgement, as the days grow a little longer after the winter solstice. I […]
Dwelling amidst beautiful chaos…eventually.
To dwell is to garden, so said Martin Heiddeger. One of the rather dubious charms of La Bu is the state of its garden. There were visions early on, as we began to look for somewhere in France we could make home, of finding a […]