http://www.viviculture.org Love life Wed, 28 May 2008 02:30:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en finally, a little snow... long awaited, ached for tired crust of old snow frozen and refrozen brittle with stress and irritation a gentle shhhhhhh of wet flakes on ice cool, calm, breathe http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/28/1244/snow-on-ice a bright sun, almost too bright snow slowly melting back from the edges of the driveway ice crystals, matted plants leaving patches of bare ground on southerly slopes but I can't get too comfortable there's still a cold wind it refreshes but won't let me stand still plants visible but the ground frozen hard growing indoors - wheatgrass only ... http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/27/1243/hungry a bit crisper some sun, a breeze better defined but then the day gets sidetracked by one, small problem, but one which resists resolution for hours and the rest of the day piles up. when it's finally fixed and I look up the sun is gone. The clouds are low and flat and purple in the West. A few hours ... http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/26/1242/diminuendo fog, just plain fog, barely freezing and then not at all. whiffs of warm air float by my nose tantalizing scents - the spices of spring. There will still be slush and mud and gray days, but for today the fog burns off, and there is sun and birdsong and hope. http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/25/1241/fog-to-hope day fading in purple, blue, pink pastels trees emerging from the dark and haze moon fading out http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/24/1240/fading-in A bright, diffuse sun, glowing snow - soft, radiant snow looking like clouds, glowing pink, then yellow, then white as the sun climbs higher. Upper 30s. Warm morning, warm day (warmth is relative) - no hat, no gloves, no coat. It's been a long time and the sun feels good, and the cool air on my bare head and ... http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/23/1239/hatless more relaxed again staying home skirting the edges of a cold but not (yet) slipping in http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/22/1238/staying-home another orange moon at dawn resting in the trees I run out of time (again) and feel a little panic-stricken at first but then (realizing that some of it can, really, honestly, wait), I manage to let go of my to-do list and relax and enjoy my busy-ness for a while. But (naturally) I enjoy it even ... http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/21/1237/relax at 6:30 in the morning a huge, orange moon rests on the western horizon 12 below zero, again at 6:30 in the evening everywhere I go, every twist and turn the full moon follows, up high and watching me at 8:45 at night the moon again takes on an orange cast but this time it's a lunar eclipse like ... http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/20/1236/moon-watch A tree trunk in shadow stands dark, forbidding, ominous, blocking me from the cold glare of the sunlit snow beyond. character-building times... cold that retreats for a day only to come back and linger. no snow, no rain, just a dust of flurries riding a mocking wind. dry cold my skin cracks my fingers click against each other like frozen twigs, black ... http://www.viviculture.org/2008/02/19/1235/stark