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Sharyn's going to reprint Tam Lin too. I think the present idea, which of course is subject to change, is for it to come out in 2006. I'm thrilled.
In other news, I continue to be delighted by my wacky catbird. The peonies and rosebushes have buds that show color, and I know they are just waiting for me to leave before they bloom. The white daisies and the spiderwort are blooming, the latter in two different purples. It's a banner year for dame's rocket: I have two major clumps and many minor scatterings. The rudbeckia crop also looks extremely promising, and all the phlox came back and most of it spread. The hairy bellflower continues its push to take over the world, backed by the daylilies. Some serious weeding and moving of plants is in order on my return. The irises are on strike; the mulberries are starting to ripen. Still no mosquitoes, but that won't last long.
One other note, from myself to myself : Despite a continued failure -- well, really, it's not a failure, it's a policy -- despite a continued policy of not blogging political stories or discussing politics except when driven to desperation, every day in every way I despise the Bush Administration and all its works. I wouldn't need to actually look at the news; I could continue in this course in the complete confidence that every day some fresh idiocy, horror, lie, or blunder is being discovered and, when the media is not too busy making up little fables to tell to itself, even reported. As a comprehensive, all-encompassing, utterly destructive mess, there's hardly anything to compare it to. I hope to God that the ctual era of gleeful and treasonous wreckage will be over next January. I was about to say, "it will all be over," but of course it won't be over for decades.
"I have some shreds of respect left for my nation, if none for the extraordinary creatures who are attempting to run it at present."
Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights
Pamela
In other news, I continue to be delighted by my wacky catbird. The peonies and rosebushes have buds that show color, and I know they are just waiting for me to leave before they bloom. The white daisies and the spiderwort are blooming, the latter in two different purples. It's a banner year for dame's rocket: I have two major clumps and many minor scatterings. The rudbeckia crop also looks extremely promising, and all the phlox came back and most of it spread. The hairy bellflower continues its push to take over the world, backed by the daylilies. Some serious weeding and moving of plants is in order on my return. The irises are on strike; the mulberries are starting to ripen. Still no mosquitoes, but that won't last long.
One other note, from myself to myself : Despite a continued failure -- well, really, it's not a failure, it's a policy -- despite a continued policy of not blogging political stories or discussing politics except when driven to desperation, every day in every way I despise the Bush Administration and all its works. I wouldn't need to actually look at the news; I could continue in this course in the complete confidence that every day some fresh idiocy, horror, lie, or blunder is being discovered and, when the media is not too busy making up little fables to tell to itself, even reported. As a comprehensive, all-encompassing, utterly destructive mess, there's hardly anything to compare it to. I hope to God that the ctual era of gleeful and treasonous wreckage will be over next January. I was about to say, "it will all be over," but of course it won't be over for decades.
"I have some shreds of respect left for my nation, if none for the extraordinary creatures who are attempting to run it at present."
Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights
Pamela
