Category: Pamela Leavey

I’ve been collecting and growing orchids for a few years now. I seem to have a 50/50 success rate with getting them to bloom again. These two are bloom right now in my kitchen. The larger white with fuchsia spots is a Polka Dot Phalaenopsis, it re-bloomed from last year. Success!

Orchids can be a little temperamental. They require just the right amount of light, food, and water to bloom. A bit like people. I keep my orchids in a south window and I adjust the light when the sun is too strong using a combination of mini-blinds and sheer curtains. I water every other week with ice cubes and on alternate weeks I use Espoma Organic Orchid Food.

I have five other orchids plants on my orchid shelf right now that I am hoping will all rebloom. Like all things in life, time will tell.

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Good Morning Everyone… The snow is starting to melt in my yard. I do hope that it is the end of it for this winter. As the snow melts, my flowerbeds are being revealed and I am so curious to see what perennials return this year. I only planted a few, so we shall see. Last spring was my first gardening attempt where I live. It was totally motivated by the pandemic and it brought me so much joy from spring through the fall.

I ended the gardening season last fall, planting about 100 bulbs, an assortment of crocus, daffodils and tulips. I dug a new bed for all the bulbs and threw in some lupine and lily seeds as well. Needless to say I can’t wait to see what starts to emerge from the ground as the days grow warmer and longer and the earth begins to wake from her winter slumber.

I feel as though I am the Earth waking from a winter slumber. As the days grow longer I grow stronger. What a year this has been… So much to take in and process. Life has changed. We are adapting. Stay strong dear ones, we will all emerge like the flowers of spring.

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We’re all interconnected, like beads collected and woven into something unexpected.

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Good Afternoon Everyone! I am feeling a little abstract today…

Thoughts are swirling around in my head, not unlike an experience I had with a vase of tulips a few days ago. I had been taking photos of the double white tulips opening in my sunny desk window, and I had my camera at hand. After taking some photos, I sat down at my desk and looked into the bottom of the blue glass vases. I noticed there were a lot of bubbles around the base of the inside of vase, and on the tulip stems. I picked up my camera and focused my lens. What I saw through my lens, was vastly more interesting than what I saw with my eyes. Not only were there bubbles, but the bubbles also formed lines.

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I mentioned in a post on Facebook earlier today that I saw a flock of cedar waxwings in my neighbor’s holly bush earlier today. I managed to grab my camera and open the porch window and catch a couple of decent shots with 300mm zoom.

I can’t see a cedar waxwing without my memory kicking in to hear my mom declare many decades ago, “Oh, a cedar waxwing!” as we were driving through the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.

I like to call the cedar waxwings “little masked marauders,” as they fly around in flocks looking for berries to eat. What a treat to see these beauties today in the cold artic like winds.

The cedar waxwings a one of my favorite woodland birds.

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Greetings of the Day to All… Here in coastal Massachusetts the winds have been wicked all day.

I’ve been trying to keep busy around the house today, rather than sit long at my west facing desk, where the wind feels like there’s little wall between us.

I fear if I sit too long my back and hip won’t approve. I sit a bit and I’m up again, pacing about in my little apartment. If it were bigger, I might get more steps in on my Fitbit everyday! I’ve been thinking a lot about Spring of late… Who hasn’t been? I’m looking forward to a little warmer temperatures and sunny days so that I can get out and walk again. And then it will be time to garden.

I hope this day has been good for everyone. It’s been a long haul, this pandemic. That’s been on my mind a lot of late, as it’s been close a year now for us all. I am reminded today of these lines from Samuel Beckett: “Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”

Blessings of the day to all…

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