Looking up into the Wisteria Tree
While most of your are probably either lamenting or anticipating the return of winter, down here in the southern hemisphere we're just coming out of all that and heading into summer. The first rose flush is underway, the runner beans and zucchini are in the ground (I never plant them before Halloween) and the bees are back, curating the deliciousness to come. It's been a pretty uncertain spring, swinging between 25 and 10 C daytime temps; as I type this, I'm freezing my tits off at the bottom end of that range under a nasty lid of scungey grey cloud but at least the equinoctial gales were short and sweet this year.
You might have noticed the blog's been running to images and reviews and not too much else at the moment aside from the serialisation, and although you're all surely gagging for lengthy, hectoring essays and opinion, the sad truth is December will probably bring more of the same. Call it xmas brain. Something to do with the seasonal increase in ultraviolet levels; it lowers IQs, reduces core competencies and makes you want to eat tiger prawns on the deck between toots under the above mentioned Pseudoacacia. The good news is there'll be plenty of pretty pictures for your delectation since the lovely R has availed himself of his dream camera, including an incoming rose smellathon that will survey the blooms at the Dunedin Bot Gardens.
Don't look at me like that. I'm a lazy bitch, I know. It is what it is.
I did make a nice goat rogan josh for dinner. Have a look at the garden while you're here. Some of it's tending toward overexposure on this laptop for some reason but it seemed fine on the iMac.
You might have noticed the blog's been running to images and reviews and not too much else at the moment aside from the serialisation, and although you're all surely gagging for lengthy, hectoring essays and opinion, the sad truth is December will probably bring more of the same. Call it xmas brain. Something to do with the seasonal increase in ultraviolet levels; it lowers IQs, reduces core competencies and makes you want to eat tiger prawns on the deck between toots under the above mentioned Pseudoacacia. The good news is there'll be plenty of pretty pictures for your delectation since the lovely R has availed himself of his dream camera, including an incoming rose smellathon that will survey the blooms at the Dunedin Bot Gardens.
Don't look at me like that. I'm a lazy bitch, I know. It is what it is.
I did make a nice goat rogan josh for dinner. Have a look at the garden while you're here. Some of it's tending toward overexposure on this laptop for some reason but it seemed fine on the iMac.
rose comte de chambord
rose golden celebration
rose zéphirine drouhin
oriental poppy
rose benjamin britten
rose golden wings
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phlomis
rose irene watts
blue salvia
rose compassion
clematis
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