May 29, 2008

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. -- Gloria Steinem

Souvenir de la Malmaison, 111

souvenir-more-garden-may-08-small-156.jpgIT WORKED.  Look at those bigger, fatter, beautifuller buds, cracking superbly open. . . .

Souvenir de la Malmaison, 11

souvenir-more-garden-small-may-08-155-7.jpg. . . And a few hours later.  Waiting for the storm.  This is not just rain proof, this is supposed to be hurricane proof.  With considerable heart-in-mouth reliance on the buffering effect of ten-foot walls around a small space.  But that’s thirty six clothes pegs.*  I wish I could remember what I bought that came in such a gloriously long swathe of bubblewrap so I could buy it again.  The two bulges are the three-sided bags that laptops come in.  I don’t think I can afford a new laptop every time it’s going to rain.  Even every time it’s going to rain just before Souvenir is due to flower.

* I didn’t exactly count.  They come in 36-peg packets and I used an entire packet.

Souvenir de la Malmaison, 1

souvenir-more-garden-may-08-small-133.jpgThe day before the rain began.  Look at those big fat beautiful buds.