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Spring Sprung…

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

Posted by thegentlemanfarmer in Family, Living, Nature, Seasons, time, Vacation

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beaches, children, friends, high schoolers, reunions, spring break, sunsets, tides, wants, wishes



that first sunset…



I could blame my youngest because this is what he wanted, but why bother…

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Gosh…

12 Monday Jan 2015

Posted by thegentlemanfarmer in Gardening, Nature, Passages, Seasons, Totem Hall, Weather

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camellia japonica, camellia sasanqua, christmas camellia, christmas day, christmas presents, fried egg flower, matilija poppy, romneya, weather channel, winter storm gorgon, yuletide camellia

Not long ago, I looked up from whatever little task I had at hand and realized there were no flowers blooming here at Totem Hall, anywhere, anyhow.

christmas camellia...

christmas camellia…

That is so unusual, since we have an abundant blessing of blooms year round, which of course I absolutely love, since it gives me a reason to go outside, and make my picks of the day.  I blame November.  There was a brutish cold snap followed immediately by a deluge of biblical proportions and then another bit of nasty cold weather.

fried egg flower...

fried egg flower…

Those absurdly sweet harbingers of winter flowers, the Romneya, Tree Poppies, or Matilija Poppy, and the Camellia Sasanqua, the Christmas Camellia, the Yuletide Camellia, said “see ya, outta here, done”.

or yuletide camellia..

or yuletide camellia..

or matilija poppy...

or matilija poppy…

And so we were, that is until Christmas Day, when miracle of miracles the Camellia Japonicas, which had been promising, burst forth in all their single, semi-double, irregular semi-double, formal double, elegans, and informal double glory. Spectacular stuff, kid you not, simply one of the best Christmas presents ever.

camellia japonica #7

camellia japonica…

camellia japonica #4

more camellia japonica…

camellia japonica #8

camellia japonica once again…

camellia japonica #5

penultimate camellia japonica…

camellia japonica #1

the final camellia japonica

Now as I type this out, Winter Storm Gorgon has come and is now slowly leaving the scene.  Before I go any further, can I ask when we started naming winter weather patterns, honestly, what is up with that?  Is this a Weather Channel conspiracy, a new way for marketers and t-shirt makers to sell “I survived Gorgon” kitsch?

Anyway, the damage to my precious winter blooms was extensive, all the flowers freezer burned, and, as for the buds, time will tell.  Thankfully, the camellia is a hearty plant and our winters mild, so I fully expect to enjoy bringing flowers into the home sometime later this winter.

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From the Old English writha…

01 Saturday Nov 2014

Posted by thegentlemanfarmer in Living, Nature, Passages, Seasons, Totem Hall

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crowns, daydreaming, doorways, entries, etruscans, fieldwork, greeks, harvest, old, olympics, owls, power, romans, tractor, wealth, wikipedia, wise, wreaths

harvest wreath...

harvest wreath…

I came back from the Woodberry Parents Weekend to find the front door of Totem Hall all decked out with a brand new wreath, courtesy of my mother in law, celebrating the best of fall.

one view up close...

one view up close…

Later on my tractor, working a field, I started thinking about wreaths, the whole who, what, when, and where.

another view up close...

another view up close…

So I turned to Wikipedia; I mean, after all, who doesn’t? Did you know that wreaths appeared during the Etruscan era, worn as crowns? After that, the Greeks and Romans appropriated the wreath concept, wearing them to celebrate, for instance, Olympic achievement, or to designate wealth and power.

wise old owl up close...

wise old owl up close…

Of course, wreaths on the head are all good and wonderful, but how does one get from the dome to the door? Well, by way of Wikipedia, one again turns to the ancient Greeks. It turns out the Greeks enjoyed hanging a harvest wreath by their door, just like mine.

one more look...

one more look…

before you come on in...

before you come on in…

And there you go…

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Beach Bound…

12 Saturday Jul 2014

Posted by thegentlemanfarmer in Nature, Seasons, Vacation

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beach, outer banks, summer, vacation

optional...

optional…

Somewhere on the Outer Banks

a boy and his dog...

a boy and his dog…

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Rain, Rain Redux

25 Monday Feb 2013

Posted by thegentlemanfarmer in Nature, Totem Hall, Weather

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balcony, library, measurements, rain, screen porch, south georgia room, tree frogs

Totem Hall Entry Rain Study #3

Totem Hall Entry Rain Study #3

The rains came and came and came some more.

South Georgia Room Rain Study #2

South Georgia Room Rain Study #2

These are some straight up facts.

  • 00.07 inches per hour
  • 04.37 inches per day
  • 04.42 inches last 24 hours
  • 11.26 inches this month
  • 12.27 inches this year
Screen Porch Rain Study #2

Screen Porch Rain Study #2

The tree frogs are enormously happy…

Library Rain Study #1

Library Rain Study #1

Balcony Rain Study #1

Balcony Rain Study #1

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Recent Background Noise

Perhaps my ennui stems from David Bowie's death. I read somewhere that we should consider ourselves lucky to have lived at the same time he did. I do. Many years ago, there was a girl in my secondary school, Debbie P., who was very hip, very groovy, and very pretty. Now I attended Catholic schools and so, as you might imagine, we had to wear uniforms, except, of course, for after-school activity, and that's where I get to the point of the story. Our school was putting on its big play of the year, I had a small part, Debbie was working backstage. One evening during rehearsal she showed up wearing a Ziggy Stardust tee-shirt. I was young, naive, not hip, not groovy, and not knowing who the ambiguous Ziggy might be. During the weekend that followed that rehearsal, I went to a record store and discovered just what David Bowie was all about. It was a transforming experience. Now some forty years later, I farm, David is dead, and Debbie is into Christian rock bands. Did I say ennui...

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