Summer Whites
Tag: garden
Yellow Haze
All of these, except the sunflower, are from my garden – most as I experimented with the camera’s close up function
Roadblocks
Will there be roadblocks in & out of the Golden Horseshoe while it remains in phase one as the rest of Ontario moves on to phase two? How else can the rest of the province be protect from possible contagion? If I go to, say Cambridge, will I have to spend 14 days in quarantine before I can even get out of the car? At least I’m not worried about getting a hair cut 🙂
I have used Zoom this past week more than usual by attending the launch for Heather Babcock’s Dirty Sugar. The launch was smoothly run & well-attended. I’ll wait for the eBook before ordering it though. (https://www.inanna.ca/product/filthy-sugar/) Purging books the past month has reinforced my desire for empty shelves & to simplify 🙂
I have been attending recovery meetings via Zoom & enjoy them more now that I’ve learned how to ‘control’ Zoom. At first I loved seeing all those faces but I quickly became distracted by people’s actions while they were listening to others share. Not that they were deliberately distracting but their eating, grooming, stretching etc isn’t what I’m there for. So I minimize Zoom to audio.
I also only turn my camera on if I’m participating, the same with sound. No one needs to hear the TV, the kids, the dogs in the other room while someone is sharing. Maybe I have control issues but the sounds of people shuffling pages, cutting fingernails or humming to themselves is annoying. Some groups only allow mikes on when participating – which does cut down on that extraneous sound. Zoom Etiquette ebooks on their way 🙂
I’ve been posting a photo series of Ghosts. Places that have closed but some trace of them remains, usually the outline of a store name. Walking along the Danforth I’ve been many ghosts of the future. Restaurants with new ‘for lease’ signs in the window. At least one that had started to change to a fast-food chain back in February now changing to different fast-food chain. I guess takeout hasn’t created sufficient cash flow – though only doing take-out between 4 – 7 may not be that profitable. I’m have my camera eye on you ghosts of the future.
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Welcome To Covid Gardens
Covid Gardens – sounds like the name for an old folks home.
Ontario’s State of Emergency has been extended another week rather than another month – I suppose that is encouraging news. Masks have gradually become more stylish & also more frequently worn though seeing people wearing them constantly makes me feel some haven’t fully understood the message. Or maybe I got it wrong – I only wear mine when in transit or in a store or if I have to pass a line up at the beer/wine stores.
The US Presidents mocks reports wearing masks, while shoppers hound a woman shopping without her mask up, store owners get attacked for refusing to let people without masks into their shops, while the mayor of TO ignored social distancing & mask to ask why someone is ignoring social distancing. It is mighty confusing.
I was dismayed by the recent sunny park crowd scenes & was amused by the almost sanctimonious response to it. It certainly gave many an opportunity to indulge their ethical/moral superiority over the covidiots in the park. The fact that many of us are willing to live within the recommended restrictions doesn’t make us saints, or make those that don’t into demons. It’s been 3 months now for people to get the basic message – social distancing & masks make a difference, washing your hands makes a difference. This is not a deliberate infringement on one’s social freedoms but a new way of living to keep ourselves alive.
My social isolation has been gardening now that the weather has warmed up enough. Wedding, trimming & planting. I repotted geraniums that had survived the winter. Bought flowers to create my own hanging baskets. Planted herbs, sweet peas & morning glories. Enough for one week.
Even managed some more housecleaning & purging. I can’t describe my satisfaction in seeing the garbage men drag away bags of VHS tapes. Better yet seeing some things disappear even before the garbage guys come. I dragged some things stored in our basement by people who have since moved on. Bye bye anodizer, oscilloscope I hope you found better homes while I enjoy my better gardens.
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All pics of the garden – back steps with fresh herbs; various hostas that I planted several years again. Lilacs fresh from my garden earlier this week.
Password: Isolation
Are we near to planking yet? Some once was star believes covid19 is part of a conspiracy to rid the planet of everyone over 60 (who isn’t as rich as them to buy protection & distance). Media whores can always spin events to get themselves some focus. Go back to your room once was star.
I’m watching these cooking competitions on the Food Network & thinking they must have all been in the can before covid19 was out of the bag. Will there be another season of So You Think You Can Dance? How safe are the contestants in the Big Brother Canada house (a show I have 0 interest in)?
Meanwhile on the home front I’ve been taking my vitamins, listening to a different one of set of “All 9 Solfeggio Frequencies: Activate Qi Flow and Healing Energy With OM Mantra and Powerful Drums” each morning. Opted to use my morning walk time to do yard work Mon Tues & Wed – thus increasing my social isolation. The yard needed lots of work. In particular the rose of Sharon, which is a vigorous self-seeder. Cut off all the remain seed pods & starting pulling up the sprouts before I have a forest back there. Rhubarb sprouting, as are the various bleeding hearts, hostas, lilac, poppies, even wisteria has a few leaf nubs.
Taking in some Zoom meetings, even a zoom poetry slam. I wonder how soon there be a market for zoom back drops because I’m seeing parts of people homes I never expected to see. Zoom working out some privacy, security issues – suddenly password are needed & some meeting are including that password as part of their notification – which to me sort of makes a password irrelevant.
Latest word on masks – wear them when social distancing is comprised by line-ups outside waiting to get in to shop, in transit. Cloth is okay for holding in virus but not for keeping it out. So I finally candid into my collection of stunning Diop bandanas 🙂 if I have to pull it up once to cover into the wash it goes when I get home.
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