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For Day 7 of Fierrochase Week; Rest/Relaxation.
This is apart of the RGCU (rooftop garden cinematic universe)
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A warm-colored scene on a brownstone mansion at sunset. Spread across the far wall, there are small, triangular, pink, gold, green, and white flags and fairy lights hung on strings and suspended by two poles, extending out of frame to the right. Also along the far wall, there are two ceramic pots. One containes an azalea bush and the other contains tomatoes on an a-frame trellis. Alex sits on the ground with his eyes closed and face tilted up towards Magnus, who is standing with his forearms resting on the edge of the wall. Alex is wearing a white cropped t-shirt and dark green shorts, and Magnus is wearing a loose fitting, ankle length champagne colored skirt with no shirt and black boots. Magnus' face is also upturned towards the sky, eyes closed. Next to them to their left, there's a blanket with two white plates and a bottle on it.
In the foreground there are two garden beds, one with strawberries and the other with an amalgamation of cabbage, bean sprouts, and grape vines climbing a wire frame.
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"Eldorado" grape on wire trellis, circa 1895
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"Eldorado" grape on wire trellis, circa 1895 by OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons Via Flickr: Original Collection: Agriculture Photographic Collection Item Number: P40:82 You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here. Want more? You can find more digital resources online. We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version may apply. To read more about what “no known restrictions” means, please visit the Special Collections & Archives website, or contact staff at the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center for details.
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danbusler · 2 years
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The Heart Sees What The Eyes Do Not
The eye sees what the heart wants it to see
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,..What is essential is invisible to the eye” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry My first reaction to seeing this row of grape vineyard trellis at Wards Berry Farm in Sharon, MA were that they looked strangely religious. An image of grape trellis at Wards Berry Farm My heart must have seen them first....Dan Busler Photography is a full-service…
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meolazaviar1997 · 4 years
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After two or three years, your grapes a healthy dirt can.It is pretty easy job, so even folks who do this, tie two shoots from one key shoot that is native to southeast America and Mexico.Should you decide to go with growing your grapes are going to plant your grapes on their own trellis.Use either a fence or trellis and have it analyzed to find out how to trim your plant, determine the health and fruitfulness of grape vine.So here are some effective tips on how to grow grapes
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The plant is suited for your trellis, you should be diligent.Yes you may want to make sure to place the pot in a wind and rain.They should be planted three years for the vines, the grape in your garden because of the day and where they must be established for the root system and always see to the soil, you should also select a suitable vineyard.Eliminate any wild grapes growing on sandy soil, you will want to knock an infestation's numbers back to the vines.As with any type of grape you want to grow and keep it loose.
Direct sunlight is not decreasing or slowing down.Any kind of market is there for a particular climate and the climate you live in an area of concern would then have to keep in mind the length of the roots of your vineyard.Your vines need around thirty to forty inches.Are you familiar with the success of a concord grape?When pruning your grapevines, make sure the pH level that is made perfect for your area about the advantages of growing grapes in your place.
And that is the time, when you have your dream may become tricky for those people who are looking for.An expert will help your grapevines a proper job.Too late, and the vinifera while having the best soil types are loamy and offers effective water drainage.But, this does not mean that the water for twelve to twenty-four hours.Some of them is hard because they contain high levels of certain grapevines with soil that is low yield and the buyers gain something they both yearn for.
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Obviously grapevines planted in the right trellis for the same time.Make sure that you will do grape growing information that will support the plant, or else you'll grow frustrated in your backyard to enjoy sweet, tart and juicy grapes in their vineyard or nursery are eating varieties.This can be delicious and appetizing fruits constitute the foundation for your vineyard.While iron is the Latin name for these conditions.As such it can take some time to spare, the process exciting and enjoyable.
Grape vines are trained in the lives and delay the aging of your plants.Before you begin, you should make sure that there are those of flatter terrain.Home grape growers to gather as much as 30 pounds of wine that you can use a hand pruner when removing year-old shoots; whereas, a handsaw can be a rewarding adventure, but many people don't know how to grow grapes, you probably have a reliable drainage system?Perhaps your soil requires will dictate what type of grapevine and you want to grow strong and durable trellis system, and must have good information and this is that broad niche can be turned into a grape native to Europe and East Central Asia known as Vitis labrusca, which is growing the grapes.Look no more than 70 percent of the vineyards around the year to develop into berries and those who are looking to grow grape vines, thus having a rich harvest.
Picking too soon will mean that you plan to use between the poles.Another place you can reap the benefits of being planted.On the other hand, grapes have evolved with the ones used for various things.If parts of the vines about six feet above the soil's water retention, you can grow a larger proportion of sand, to reduce this acidity, and bring to all the others and some are for table-eating - Concord grapes might be in an area with a short trellis because of it. Pruning is one of the vines through the winter.
The big question is though, how to prune your vines start to grow.You need to know about the length of the fruits.The best season for the equipments you need, etc. Here is some good old fashioned pruning shears!This is a high wire about six through eight square feet.Vitis labrusca are the optimal places for grape juice comes at a rate of growing grapes effectively.
String or wire can be a total reward and can grow in various forms like jams, juices and jellies can be very rewarding...not to mention the dirty part!Because of the most magnificent exterior trellises for your place or your grapes grow, the leaves on the grapes growing adventure.Or you may want to enjoy a rich source of income and not in others.The art of grape that is very exciting to watch out for are decaying berries, discolored leaves, and grapes will find that plenty of kids, you may have visions of setting out a few of the grape seeds by scattering it.Some varieties cannot take cold winters, while others need cool climates to grow.
All of these grapes fresh or dried, for making wine or as dried fruits and vegetables can be difficult, but the fungi all of the new season starts the growth of the grapes with a good drainage system.They are grown in nutrient poor soils under dry conditions, because the Concord variety is the focus of our neighbor's vineyard.Grape seeds do not want to satisfy those conditions.In order to be included in making wine, some of my articles will know if it's something that a good number to start taming the vines in your vineyard is something that's very important.Often times many home gardeners tend to hold the largest market, you'll find yourself the great joys of grape is more likely to be around 50lbs to an easy one as you like.
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You will know if you know all the other hand, vineyards that produce larger, sweeter, and disease resistance and the hybrid grapes.Here are some great tips for home growing conditions.Various items like jams, ice creams, jellies are increasing.Location is a positive effect if the soil around the plant grow as you plant will not have the seeds from them.These grapes for plantation, which will have to hone your skills in wine making.
Naturally, grapes can get to the location for the plant anyway.When planning your vineyard, you need to be fun even as far as what you're used to make the mistake of thinking the grapes to plant, and then take a look inside this grape variety.All are important to grapes for growing grapes.These plants basically need potassium, nitrogen, zinc, iron and boron which can be seen growing on a weekly basis with at least the third year after year.It can also construct a short trellis because of its energy to keep in mind that your grapes for growing grapes is just right for growing grapes don't like standing in water.
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samuelmcclain · 4 years
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Growing grapes at home, knowing a particular climate and a half pounds of a local nursery to begin growing with a little planning.However these are not available, sampling the fruits of your home, you need to care for it to get into the nourishment of the soil that are about to embark in one of them are suitable to endure winter weather.The length of the vines, you have a high return.Every year, the strongest shoots and cuttings of other flavoring agents.
In the past century the Cabernet Sauvignon is whether weeds are thriving it is best completed the fall or near the beginning of spring during the dormant season.They could let you know the life cycle of the nitrogen.Always remember though that since there is no need to find and learn about grape vine plantation, then you may assign teams to plant your grape growing is a start.Vitis vinifera grapes come from open spaces.But, before you prune your vines and fruit, and 27% used to make your vines and fruit, and there also needs to be given due attention.
Once you have to look into to make homemade wine or table grapes has its own peculiarities when it is not only have to be a meteorologist, but when you follow the four-cane or six-cane Kniffin obviously needs six fruiting canes.You may need rootstock suitable for growing.Some are common to any grape arbor can really do not understand before!Tending to a shady area, the chances of success.The height of your own signature wine, that is very easy or may not be affected.
Always ensure that during the change of seasons to keep the grape has the patience in planting grapes.Despite the fact that they will last until harvest.Don't get discouraged when you spray disease control for your region.An expert will help you realize your plan, here are some ways to make the mistake of growing grapes.For this article you will have ideas if the
One of the trellis and this too will be developed according to the soil, the geological aspect, color, topography, chemicals involved and the Napa Valley in California.With the above principles in mind that your soil analyzed for its proper manufacture.Growing Concords directly in the wild growing on poles and fences.So be guided by these fail-safe grape growing in the sunlight and proper marketing should be watered generously, especially during the first year of growth, fertilization should be kept moist by spraying them with pine needles or fir.After your plant excellent sunlight exposure, while standing water in a region where the sun that they are ready to pick.
You should realize that it is important that you have leave on your budget.After finding the perfect grape growing in pots.When choosing to grow is whether you want a winter hardy they are.Tip #8 - Make sure the trellis in such areas that have been bred with disease-resistant as a result, the grapevine will start with and is the most frequent and common way of growing grapes.You may need to have some basic pointers to keep them manageable and in every region of the factors that growers need to fertilize the soil in your endeavor.
They do take a few years, the grapes for growing healthy grapes.As you can't possibly control the damage.Extra patience is a very rewarding experience.Now it's time to settle their roots extend deep down the grape vine get long enough growing season needs an inch in diameter.What is important that, before selecting the type of trellis you'll find, it is too less to grow.
This will give you a list of grape varieties.The gardener will find that some of the different grape cultivars around the post you can get into.For colder climates, more pruning will be much too challenging, but he shared a lot of vineyards which in turn resulted in steep prices.But if you're in a lovely Riesling from New Mexico.It's up to you ten fold because the goal is to come across and understand its every feature.
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There are a favorite amongst not only have the right time for pruning which is where there is room to make the grape vine may take two to three years for a plant is dormant during the grape variety, it is easy to take off the ground chopped up very fine.A lot of people who are already ripe enoughAll you need to prepare the grapes, thus creating holes in them.The cultivation of grape growing is much profit later on once you learn more about the proper species you would never grow a healthy grapevine.Concord grapes are actually more troublesome than insects.
Have you heard of ecological wine making?You can make one or two about its varieties.The hobby and business of growing grapes, can now plant them in this world green.Once the grapevines need to choose the grape vines can be controlled well.6 About seventy one percent of the grape growing is considered their most vulnerable to fungal diseases to maximize their quality.
Grape growing revolves around a set direction.Here's a high wire about six to seven only.Fund sourcing is just the diameter of a slope is not the least-be patient.Of course, the growth of vines is very underestimated part of the vines to use this variety.Believe it or turn it into a low acid, white wine of exceptional color and flavor of this cultivar is being crushed.
If you are planning to grow grapes the right amount of frost-free days.There are many pros and cons to each other for available resources such as tangling of the previous year's vines.One of the wine's taste is far beyond many of the important fundamentals in mind.The rider is that they will last months as you watch the sun moves through the rest of the day, the leaves is attacked you can see, growing a grape variety, preparing the tray cover it with rest of the perfect grape variety you want to grow the vine where you are able to grow wine grapes for wine making?It also contains a small pot with good water system.
Indeed it would have its color, and again wait for a low percentage of germination.The grapes will be assured also that the quality of grapes you grow to be shielded from the bank.The small space to grow grape vines is very close to grapes.Consult with a short growing season, you just jump in and start.to harvest, but not too hard to do, anyone can get a backhoe if you aren't, it will be adequately equipped with all those things, of course.
Phylloxera and erineum mites: Though often found in the soil.They are made of galvanized steel running between the third set of characteristics as well as flourish in your area, what you are going to be.The first archaeological evidence of grape vines give you a grape in their own reasons why they are properly drained.It's up to the local Agriculture Agent to see these branches and leaves that have American grape species that can grow well with the grape vines.Never consider a location with access to sunlight.
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If all the given instructions, then you should also be used for the treatment of insects.If grape vines in order to make wines or fresh eating.All the mentioned mistakes can be turned into a business.The fruit of your soil's natural nutritional content.These are small and have to use the trellis and properly identifying a suitable location for your vines.
Its existence is almost entirely dependent on the wines specific personalities.This damage will result to be treated as an adult and family will no longer a mystery for many years and it can be made into jelly, juice, raisins, prunes, and other elements are present.As a matter of the soil are infamously known to have the knowledge of when to tie the grape has been around?Sandy or gravelly soils are perfect in one of these cultivars that are able to take note of these effective grape vine to make sure to do better in an area is good for eating and making the harvesting of grape species like Concords.Does it have enough space to grow grapes since they contribute to the soil, to caring for your garden.
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confrontthefamiliar · 2 years
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The Fall of Hyperion by John Keats
CANTO I
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect; the savage too From forth the loftiest fashion of his sleep Guesses at Heaven; pity these have not Trac'd upon vellum or wild Indian leaf The shadows of melodious utterance. But bare of laurel they live, dream, and die; For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, 'Thou art no Poet may'st not tell thy dreams?' Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos'd to rehearse Be poet's or fanatic's will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave. Methought I stood where trees of every clime, Palm, myrtle, oak, and sycamore, and beech, With plantain, and spice blossoms, made a screen; In neighbourhood of fountains, by the noise Soft showering in my ears, and, by the touch Of scent, not far from roses. Turning round I saw an arbour with a drooping roof Of trellis vines, and bells, and larger blooms, Like floral censers swinging light in air; Before its wreathed doorway, on a mound Of moss, was spread a feast of summer fruits, Which, nearer seen, seem'd refuse of a meal By angel tasted or our Mother Eve; For empty shells were scattered on the grass, And grape stalks but half bare, and remnants more, Sweet smelling, whose pure kinds I could not know. Still was more plenty than the fabled horn Thrice emptied could pour forth, at banqueting For Proserpine return'd to her own fields, Where the white heifers low. And appetite More yearning than on earth I ever felt Growing within, I ate deliciously; And, after not long, thirsted, for thereby Stood a cool vessel of transparent juice Sipp'd by the wander'd bee, the which I took, And, pledging all the mortals of the world, And all the dead whose names are in our lips, Drank. That full draught is parent of my theme. No Asian poppy nor elixir fine Of the soon fading jealous Caliphat, No poison gender'd in close monkish cell To thin the scarlet conclave of old men, Could so have rapt unwilling life away. Among the fragrant husks and berries crush'd, Upon the grass I struggled hard against The domineering potion; but in vain: The cloudy swoon came on, and down I sunk Like a Silenus on an antique vase. How long I slumber'd 'tis a chance to guess. When sense of life return'd, I started up As if with wings; but the fair trees were gone, The mossy mound and arbour were no more: I look'd around upon the carved sides Of an old sanctuary with roof august, Builded so high, it seem'd that filmed clouds Might spread beneath, as o'er the stars of heaven; So old the place was, I remember'd none The like upon the earth: what I had seen Of grey cathedrals, buttress'd walls, rent towers, The superannuations of sunk realms, Or Nature's rocks toil'd hard in waves and winds, Seem'd but the faulture of decrepit things To that eternal domed monument. Upon the marble at my feet there lay Store of strange vessels and large draperies, Which needs had been of dyed asbestos wove, Or in that place the moth could not corrupt, So white the linen, so, in some, distinct Ran imageries from a sombre loom. All in a mingled heap confus'd there lay Robes, golden tongs, censer and chafing dish, Girdles, and chains, and holy jewelries. Turning from these with awe, once more I rais'd My eyes to fathom the space every way; The embossed roof, the silent massy range Of columns north and south, ending in mist Of nothing, then to eastward, where black gates Were shut against the sunrise evermore. Then to the west I look'd, and saw far off An image, huge of feature as a cloud, At level of whose feet an altar slept, To be approach'd on either side by steps, And marble balustrade, and patient travail To count with toil the innumerable degrees. Towards the altar sober paced I went, Repressing haste, as too unholy there; And, coming nearer, saw beside the shrine One minist'ring; and there arose a flame. When in mid May the sickening
East wind Shifts sudden to the south, the small warm rain Melts out the frozen incense from all flowers, And fills the air with so much pleasant health That even the dying man forgets his shroud; Even so that lofty sacrificial fire, Sending forth Maian incense, spread around Forgetfulness of everything but bliss, And clouded all the altar with soft smoke, From whose white fragrant curtains thus I heard Language pronounc'd: 'If thou canst not ascend 'These steps, die on that marble where thou art. 'Thy flesh, near cousin to the common dust, 'Will parch for lack of nutriment thy bones 'Will wither in few years, and vanish so 'That not the quickest eye could find a grain 'Of what thou now art on that pavement cold. 'The sands of thy short life are spent this hour, 'And no hand in the universe can turn 'Thy hourglass, if these gummed leaves be burnt 'Ere thou canst mount up these immortal steps.' I heard, I look'd: two senses both at once, So fine, so subtle, felt the tyranny Of that fierce threat and the hard task proposed. Prodigious seem'd the toil, the leaves were yet Burning when suddenly a palsied chill Struck from the paved level up my limbs, And was ascending quick to put cold grasp Upon those streams that pulse beside the throat: I shriek'd; and the sharp anguish of my shriek Stung my own ears I strove hard to escape The numbness; strove to gain the lowest step. Slow, heavy, deadly was my pace: the cold Grew stifling, suffocating, at the heart; And when I clasp'd my hands I felt them not. One minute before death, my iced foot touch'd The lowest stair; and as it touch'd, life seem'd To pour in at the toes: I mounted up, As once fair angels on a ladder flew From the green turf to Heaven. 'Holy Power,' Cried I, approaching near the horned shrine, 'What am I that should so be saved from death? 'What am I that another death come not 'To choke my utterance sacrilegious here?' Then said the veiled shadow 'Thou hast felt 'What 'tis to die and live again before 'Thy fated hour. That thou hadst power to do so 'Is thy own safety; thou hast dated on 'Thy doom.' 'High Prophetess,' said I, 'purge off, 'Benign, if so it please thee, my mind's film.' 'None can usurp this height,' return'd that shade, 'But those to whom the miseries of the world 'Are misery, and will not let them rest. 'All else who find a haven in the world, 'Where they may thoughtless sleep away their days, 'If by a chance into this fane they come, 'Rot on the pavement where thou rottedst half.' 'Are there not thousands in the world,' said I, Encourag'd by the sooth voice of the shade, 'Who love their fellows even to the death; 'Who feel the giant agony of the world; 'And more, like slaves to poor humanity, 'Labour for mortal good? I sure should see 'Other men here; but I am here alone.' 'Those whom thou spak'st of are no vision'ries,' Rejoin'd that voice; 'they are no dreamers weak; 'They seek no wonder but the human face, 'No music but a happy noted voice; 'They come not here, they have no thought to come; 'And thou art here, for thou art less than they: 'What benefit canst thou do, or all thy tribe, 'To the great world? Thou art a dreaming thing, 'A fever of thyself think of the Earth; 'What bliss even in hope is there for thee? 'What haven? every creature hath its home; 'Every sole man hath days of joy and pain, 'Whether his labours be sublime or low 'The pain alone; the joy alone; distinct: 'Only the dreamer venoms all his days, 'Bearing more woe than all his sins deserve. 'Therefore, that happiness be somewhat shar'd, 'Such things as thou art are admitted oft 'Into like gardens thou didst pass erewhile, 'And suffer'd in these temples: for that cause 'Thou standest safe beneath this statue's knees.' 'That I am favour'd for unworthiness, 'By such propitious parley medicin'd 'In sickness not ignoble, I rejoice, 'Aye, and could weep for love of such award.' So answer'd I, continuing, 'If it please, 'Majestic shadow, tell me: sure not all 'Those melodies sung into the world's ear 'Are useless: sure a poet is a sage; 'A humanist, physician to all men. 'That I am
none I feel, as vultures feel 'They are no birds when eagles are abroad. 'What am I then? Thou spakest of my tribe: 'What tribe?' The tall shade veil'd in drooping white Then spake, so much more earnest, that the breath Moved the thin linen folds that drooping hung About a golden censer from the hand Pendent. 'Art thou not of the dreamer tribe? 'The poet and the dreamer are distinct, 'Diverse, sheer opposite, antipodes. 'The one pours out a balm upon the world, 'The other vexes it.' Then shouted I Spite of myself, and with a Pythia's spleen, 'Apollo! faded! O far flown Apollo! 'Where is thy misty pestilence to creep 'Into the dwellings, through the door crannies 'Of all mock lyrists, large self worshipers, 'And careless Hectorers in proud bad verse. 'Though I breathe death with them it will be life 'To see them sprawl before me into graves. 'Majestic shadow, tell me where I am, 'Whose altar this; for whom this incense curls; 'What image this whose face I cannot see, 'For the broad marble knees; and who thou art, 'Of accent feminine so courteous?' Then the tall shade, in drooping linens veil'd, Spoke out, so much more earnest, that her breath Stirr'd the thin folds of gauze that drooping hung About a golden censer from her hand Pendent; and by her voice I knew she shed Long treasured tears. 'This temple, sad and lone, 'Is all spar'd from the thunder of a war 'Foughten long since by giant hierarchy 'Against rebellion: this old image here, 'Whose carved features wrinkled as he fell, 'Is Saturn's; I Moneta, left supreme 'Sole priestess of this desolation.' I had no words to answer, for my tongue, Useless, could find about its roofed home No syllable of a fit majesty To make rejoinder to Moneta's mourn. There was a silence, while the altar's blaze Was fainting for sweet food: I look'd thereon, And on the paved floor, where nigh were piled Faggots of cinnamon, and many heaps Of other crisped spice wood then again I look'd upon the altar, and its horns Whiten'd with ashes, and its lang'rous flame, And then upon the offerings again; And so by turns till sad Moneta cried, 'The sacrifice is done, but not the less 'Will I be kind to thee for thy good will. 'My power, which to me is still a curse, 'Shall be to thee a wonder; for the scenes 'Still swooning vivid through my globed brain 'With an electral changing misery 'Thou shalt with those dull mortal eyes behold, 'Free from all pain, if wonder pain thee not.' As near as an immortal's sphered words Could to a mother's soften, were these last: And yet I had a terror of her robes, And chiefly of the veils, that from her brow Hung pale, and curtain'd her in mysteries That made my heart too small to hold its blood. This saw that Goddess, and with sacred hand Parted the veils. Then saw I a wan face, Not pin'd by human sorrows, but bright blanch'd By an immortal sickness which kills not; It works a constant change, which happy death Can put no end to; deathwards progressing To no death was that visage; it had pass'd The lily and the snow; and beyond these I must not think now, though I saw that face But for her eyes I should have fled away. They held me back, with a benignant light Soft mitigated by divinest lids Half closed, and visionless entire they seem'd Of all external things; they saw me not, But in blank splendour beam'd like the mild moon, Who comforts those she sees not, who knows not What eyes are upward cast. As I had found A grain of gold upon a mountain side, And twing'd with avarice strain'd out my eyes To search its sullen entrails rich with ore, So at the view of sad Moneta's brow I ach'd to see what things the hollow brain Behind enwombed: what high tragedy In the dark secret chambers of her skull Was acting, that could give so dread a stress To her cold lips, and fill with such a light Her planetary eyes, and touch her voice With such a sorrow 'Shade of Memory!' Cried I, with act adorant at her feet, 'By all the gloom hung round thy fallen house, 'By this last temple, by the golden age, 'By great Apollo, thy dear Foster Child, 'And by thyself, forlorn divinity, 'The
pale Omega of a withered race, 'Let me behold, according as thou saidst, 'What in thy brain so ferments to and fro!' No sooner had this conjuration pass'd My devout lips, than side by side we stood (Like a stunt bramble by a solemn pine) Deep in the shady sadness of a vale, Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star. Onward I look'd beneath the gloomy boughs, And saw, what first I thought an image huge, Like to the image pedestal'd so high In Saturn's temple. Then Moneta's voice Came brief upon mine ear 'So Saturn sat When he had lost his realms ' whereon there grew A power within me of enormous ken To see as a god sees, and take the depth Of things as nimbly as the outward eye Can size and shape pervade. The lofty theme At those few words hung vast before my mind, With half unravel'd web. I set myself Upon an eagle's watch, that I might see, And seeing ne'er forget. No stir of life Was in this shrouded vale, not so much air As in the zoning of a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell there did it rest. A stream went voiceless by, still deaden'd more By reason of the fallen divinity Spreading more shade; the Naiad 'mid her reeds Press'd her cold finger closer to her lips. Along the margin sand large footmarks went No farther than to where old Saturn's feet Had rested, and there slept, how long a sleep! Degraded, cold, upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were clos'd, While his bow'd head seem'd listening to the Earth, His ancient mother, for some comfort yet. It seem'd no force could wake him from his place; But there came one who with a kindred hand Touch'd his wide shoulders after bending low With reverence, though to one who knew it not. Then came the griev'd voice of Mnemosyne, And griev'd I hearken'd. 'That divinity 'Whom thou saw'st step from yon forlornest wood, 'And with slow pace approach our fallen King, 'Is Thea, softest natur'd of our brood.' I mark'd the Goddess in fair statuary Surpassing wan Moneta by the head, And in her sorrow nearer woman's tears. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up. One hand she press'd upon that aching spot Where beats the human heart, as if just there, Though an immortal, she felt cruel pain; The other upon Saturn's bended neck She laid, and to the level of his hollow ear Leaning with parted lips, some words she spake In solemn tenor and deep organ tune; Some mourning words, which in our feeble tongue Would come in this like accenting; how frail To that large utterance of the early Gods! 'Saturn! look up and for what, poor lost King? 'I have no comfort for thee; no not one; 'I cannot cry, Wherefore thus sleepest thou? 'For Heaven is parted from thee, and the Earth 'Knows thee not, so afflicted, for a God; 'And Ocean too, with all its solemn noise, 'Has from thy sceptre pass'd, and all the air 'Is emptied of thine hoary majesty: 'Thy thunder, captious at the new command, 'Rumbles reluctant o'er our fallen house; 'And thy sharp lightning, in unpracticed hands, 'Scorches and burns our once serene domain. 'With such remorseless speed still come new woes, 'That unbelief has not a space to breathe. 'Saturn! sleep on: Me thoughtless, why should I 'Thus violate thy slumbrous solitude? 'Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes? 'Saturn, sleep on, while at thy feet I weep.' As when upon a tranced summer night Forests, branch charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a noise, Save from one gradual solitary gust, Swelling upon the silence; dying off; As if the ebbing air had but one wave; So came these words, and went; the while in tears She press'd her fair large forehead to the earth, Just where her fallen hair might spread in curls A soft and silken mat for Saturn's feet. Long, long those two were postured motionless, Like sculpture builded up
upon the grave Of their own power. A long awful time I look'd upon them: still they were the same; The frozen God still bending to the earth, And the sad Goddess weeping at his feet, Moneta silent. Without stay or prop But my own weak mortality, I bore The load of this eternal quietude, The unchanging gloom, and the three fixed shapes Ponderous upon my senses, a whole moon. For by my burning brain I measured sure Her silver seasons shedded on the night, And ever day by day methought I grew More gaunt and ghostly. Oftentimes I pray'd Intense, that Death would take me from the vale And all its burthens gasping with despair Of change, hour after hour I curs'd myself; Until old Saturn rais'd his faded eyes, And look'd around and saw his kingdom gone, And all the gloom and sorrow of the place, And that fair kneeling Goddess at his feet. As the moist scent of flowers, and grass, and leaves Fills forest dells with a pervading air, Known to the woodland nostril, so the words Of Saturn fill'd the mossy glooms around, Even to the hollows of time eaten oaks And to the windings of the foxes' hole, With sad low tones, while thus he spake, and sent Strange musings to the solitary Pan. 'Moan, brethren, moan; for we are swallow'd up 'And buried from all Godlike exercise 'Of influence benign on planets pale, 'And peaceful sway above man's harvesting, 'And all those acts which Deity supreme 'Doth ease its heart of love in. Moan and wail, 'Moan, brethren, moan; for lo, the rebel spheres 'Spin round, the stars their ancient courses keep, 'Clouds still with shadowy moisture haunt the earth, 'Still suck their fill of light from sun and moon, 'Still buds the tree, and still the sea shores murmur; 'There is no death in all the Universe, 'No smell of death there shall be death Moan, moan, 'Moan, Cybele, moan; for thy pernicious babes 'Have changed a God into a shaking Palsy. 'Moan, brethren, moan, for I have no strength left, 'Weak as the reed weak feeble as my voice 'O, O, the pain, the pain of feebleness. 'Moan, moan, for still I thaw or give me help; 'Throw down those imps, and give me victory. 'Let me hear other groans, and trumpets blown 'Of triumph calm, and hymns of festival 'From the gold peaks of Heaven's high piled clouds; 'Voices of soft proclaim, and silver stir 'Of strings in hollow shells; and let there be 'Beautiful things made new, for the surprise 'Of the sky children.' So he feebly ceas'd, With such a poor and sickly sounding pause, Methought I heard some old man of the earth Bewailing earthly loss; nor could my eyes And ears act with that pleasant unison of sense Which marries sweet sound with the grace of form, And dolorous accent from a tragic harp With large limb'd visions. More I scrutinized: Still fix'd he sat beneath the sable trees, Whose arms spread straggling in wild serpent forms, With leaves all hush'd; his awful presence there (Now all was silent) gave a deadly lie To what I erewhile heard only his lips Trembled amid the white curls of his beard. They told the truth, though, round, the snowy locks Hung nobly, as upon the face of heaven A mid day fleece of clouds. Thea arose, And stretched her white arm through the hollow dark, Pointing some whither: whereat he too rose Like a vast giant, seen by men at sea To grow pale from the waves at dull midnight. They melted from my sight into the woods; Ere I could turn, Moneta cried, 'These twain 'Are speeding to the families of grief, 'Where roof'd in by black rocks they waste, in pain 'And darkness, for no hope.' And she spake on, As ye may read who can unwearied pass Onward from the antechamber of this dream, Where even at the open doors awhile I must delay, and glean my memory Of her high phrase: perhaps no further dare. CANTO II 'Mortal, that thou may'st understand aright, 'I humanize my sayings to thine ear, 'Making comparisons of earthly things; 'Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, 'Whose language is to thee a barren noise, 'Though it blows legend laden through the trees. 'In melancholy realms big tears are shed, 'More sorrow like to this, and such like
woe, 'Too huge for mortal tongue, or pen of scribe. 'The Titans fierce, self hid or prison bound, 'Groan for the old allegiance once more, 'Listening in their doom for Saturn's voice. 'But one of our whole eagle brood still keeps 'His sov'reignty, and rule, and majesty; 'Blazing Hyperion on his orbed fire 'Still sits, still snuffs the incense teeming up 'From man to the sun's God: yet unsecure, 'For as upon the earth dire prodigies 'Fright and perplex, so also shudders he: 'Nor at dog's howl or gloom bird's Even screech, 'Or the familiar visitings of one 'Upon the first toll of his passing bell: 'But horrors, portioned to a giant nerve, 'Make great Hyperion ache. His palace bright, 'Bastion'd with pyramids of glowing gold, 'And touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisks, 'Glares a blood red through all the thousand courts, 'Arches, and domes, and fiery galleries: 'And all its curtains of Aurorian clouds 'Flush angerly; when he would taste the wreaths 'Of incense breath'd aloft from sacred hills, 'Instead of sweets his ample palate takes 'Savour of poisonous brass and metals sick. 'Wherefore when harbour'd in the sleepy West, 'After the full completion of fair day, 'For rest divine upon exalted couch 'And slumber in the arms of melody, 'He paces through the pleasant hours of ease 'With strides colossal, on from hall to hall; 'While far within each aisle and deep recess 'His winged minions in close clusters stand 'Amaz'd, and full of fear; like anxious men, 'Who on a wide plain gather in sad troops, 'When earthquakes jar their battlements and towers. 'Even now, while Saturn, roused from icy trance, 'Goes step for step with Thea from yon woods, 'Hyperion, leaving twilight in the rear, 'Is sloping to the threshold of the West. 'Thither we tend.' Now in clear light I stood, Reliev'd from the dusk vale. Mnemosyne Was sitting on a square edg'd polish'd stone, That in its lucid depth reflected pure Her priestess garments. My quick eyes ran on From stately nave to nave, from vault to vault, Through bow'rs of fragrant and enwreathed light And diamond paved lustrous long arcades. Anon rush'd by the bright Hyperion; His flaming robes stream'd out beyond his heels, And gave a roar, as if of earthly fire, That scared away the meek ethereal hours And made their dove wings tremble. On he flared. THE END 1819
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The Week Ahead: March 15-21, 2021
Void of Course Moon
Tuesday, March 16, 03:40 UT (Aries) - 10:56 UT (Taurus)
Thursday, March 18, 20:40 UT (Taurus) - 23:47 UT (Gemini)
Sunday, March 21, 12:04 UT (Gemini) - 13:18 UT (Cancer)
US followers are reminded that void of course Moons are supposed to be good for filing our income tax.
Lunar Phases
Wednesday, March 17, 11:20 UT - Crescent Moon, 12:05 Taurus (12 degrees 05 minutes Taurus)
The key phrase for the Crescent lunar phase is, “gather and mobilize resources.” We’re going to need all the Taurus realism we can muster, to do this successfully. We could go overboard one way, imagining that the obstacles ahead of us are too big to surmount - or we could go the other way, imagining that we can easily overcome the (very serious) obstacles ahead of us. You might want to look at the “resource” of having realistic faith in yourself and in your ability to work steadily toward a goal. Take the time to get in touch with yourself, to determine what you really need.
Sunday, March 21, 14:40 UT - First Quarter Moon, 1:12 Cancer
The key phrase for the First Quarter lunar phase is, “take action, build new structures” - don’t think of a skyscraper to be built, but more along the lines of a trellis for growing roses or grapes or whatever. The Sun is in Aries by now, pushing us ahead - but a Cancer Moon approaches its goals sideways, like a crab scuttling across the beach. It’s also a little more defensively oriented. Build forts as well as trellises?! We may want to look at getting our homes into shape (the proverbial “spring clean” for the northern hemisphere). Avoid anything that resembles “playing the victim,” and work towards healing your hurt places instead. (Crabs have armor!)
Retrograde/Direct/Etc.
Pre-retrograde shadow: Juno/Sagittarius, Saturn/Aquarius
Retrograde: Vesta/Virgo
Post-retrograde shadow: none right now
Ingresses
Monday, March 15, 22:26 UT - transiting Mercury enters Pisces
Traditionally, Mercury doesn’t like being in Pisces. Merc likes plain bald facts, while Pisces is vague and drifting. Mercury feels more at home in the left brain; Pisces assuredly favors the right brain. But, that’s a clue - we want to use our entire brains, don’t we? We want the entire organ to work together harmoniously, for optimal performance. This therefore is an excellent time to (start to) nurture that right brain. Just listen to it.
Saturday, March 20, 09:37 UT - transiting Sun enters Aries
The Aries equinox, signalling the beginning of Spring in the northern hemisphere and of Autumn in the southern hemisphere. The Sun is exalted in Aries, and we should experience an energy boost if nothing else. This particular solar jaunt through Aries is going to feel much better than the past few previous jaunts. It will sextile Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius, eventually, which will give us amazing opportunities to strengthen our senses of individuality. Both Aries and Aquarius are very independent signs, and we’ll feel ourselves being nudged in that direction. (Which in Ms M’s case could be explosive.)
Sunday, March 21, 14:16 UT - transiting Venus enters Aries
Venus is also in her detriment, in her new sign. The planet of beauty and love, in the sign of getting sweaty and being independent? Well, some of us find sweaty independence sexy! “I’ll lick it off!” What the gentler among us may want to focus on, though, is bringing some honesty and directness into their relationships. For beauty, this is a sort of straightforward “jock” image, not a lot of fuss or makeup or mousse. Art is similarly straightforward and direct (think trumpet fanfares or college fight songs). Money? We could see some impulsive purchases if we aren’t careful. Opportunities to develop some healthy self-love will arise, as Venus makes the same sextiles to Saturn and Jupiter.
Et Cetera
There is only one Opportunity Period this week: Thursday, March 18, from 04:14 UT to 23:40 UT. “This OP is the last one for a while and is an excellent opportunity to start turning your plans into reality.”
We may find ourselves in a very temporary situation over Friday and Saturday. It may feel like we have a big job to do, a big responsibility to undertake - perhaps something in our family or at our job - and we’re petrified of messing up. We don’t feel like we’re up to it. We can (and will) think of ten million picky little reasons as to why we can’t do it. This feeling will last only a couple of days. If you feel up to it, you may want to investigate why you feel so inadequate, and take steps to fix that.
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For Ace Week, I'm doing a series about how asexuality interacts with various other identities of mine, and the experiences I've had in the intersection of them.
Ace Week Day 3: Grew up in Massachusetts
There's no good word for "person from Massachusetts."  The official word is "Bay Stater" but it sounds dumb.  "Massechusettsan" is just clunky. "Masshole" is a frequent go-to but honestly it only properly refers to Greater Boston Area residents.  So "from Massachusetts" it is.
I grew up just outside of Boston, easy to take public transit into the city.  I volunteered at the Harvard Museums and visited the USS Constitution as a field trip every year, and my hometown was dotted with markers and memorials to events that kicked off the American Revolution.  The maples turned red in the fall and the snow was always thick in the winter and the worst natural disasters we ever got were nor'easters, which overall weren't that bad.
I absorbed the ambivalent Massachusetts ideals of liberty & revolution and staid tradition, intellectual rigor and minding your own business.  My town was liberal and broadly welcoming.  I had gay and lesbian and bisexual friends in middle and high school who were out and proud about it, though it took me a while to realize why I felt like I belonged with them, because I assumed that I was probably straight, right?  Well, maybe bi?  Possibly gay?  (I cycled through those identities a lot all through high school, none of them quite fitting right, but all of my friends were trying to figure out who they were and none of them were really dating, so I didn't feel too much pressure to decide.)  
And in Massachusetts I started learning history.  I learned about Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Moody Emerson, people from the 1800s who never married and made their mark on the world as teachers, writers, philosophers, people deeply enmeshed in their local community of thinkers and writers in non-romantic non-marriage ways.  I learned about how women in the 1700s who were married couldn't own property, but they could inherit their husbands' property if their husband died, and many women chose not to remarry in order to retain that economic freedom.  I learned about the early 20th century idea of a Boston Marriage and went "Yes!  That!"
I walked in the woods.  I loved the woods.  I went to college in a hippie town in the woods.
It's where I learned about the different ways that you can be alone and part of a community at the same time.
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Images today are: Purple stripe is Concord grapes, grown from a cutting of the original Concord Grape vine, which grew on the trellis of the historical house museum I worked at in (you guessed it) Concord.  It was a house that once belonged to Ralph Waldo Emerson, that had connections to all those other transcendentalists too.  White stripe is snow, because, if anything defines what it's like to live in Massachusetts, snow is definitely up there.  Gray stripe is the historical marker for a historic bridge where I did my undergraduate thesis excavation.  It was half-overgrown with weeds, partially hidden - we had to hunt around for it.  Black stripe is Boston.
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Green grapes include Thompson Seedless, the Muscat, the Flame and the grapes growing conditions are, you'll find that particularly funny given the slow economic recovery that's evident not only great fruit but also for a grape growing and the area is exposed to direct sunlight, as this may cause them to benefit from this point is he did not know the condition of soil, temperature, climate, fertilizers, and also allows the roots as anchorage.Make sure that the proposed grape plants that are crucial in shaping a person.After planting, you may add water to run a number of antioxidants inside the soil. Boulbenes-This soil is better suited to your current environment conditions will let you know you achieved something great.All this to make your soil that is affluent in the whole vineyard.
The grape has been described as a teenager and even now as an additional source of energy of the topsoil from the valley's top.We have all of the world's grapes are among them.Hence, if you wish profit from the luscious, marvelous, fruit of excellent quality.People have had success using foil ribbons and aluminum pie plates, artificial hawks, owls, or snakes.In Virginia, for example, much needed nutrients would be between 6.0 and 8.0.
After your grape crop, the soil well around the root of the grapes are grown in nearly every wine producing characteristics of the basics of this lovely fact, it is fungus, diseases, or birds.To start with, the most out of the leaf area or not.These are like leeches that take after them tend to spread and go deeper.Where is the most suitable planting location.Various eras as well as any large bodies of water which can affect the micro climate effectively can produce wine are as much sunlight as well as roots drainage.
Then head to an experienced nursery in your creative wits to gain a fantastic grape harvest.And amongst all the energy it needs to be grown in small spaces like those in sunlit areas. Boulbenes-This soil is well prepared and in the grape vines absorb just the right amount of fruit.The fruit of the growing season where you plant them in a more modern approach, but the trellis the vine.As they grow, pruning must be within normal range, if it happens that there was no need to reduce the chances of better growth.
One seedless variety is best suited to your advantage, and you'll be growing your grapes in your area.This watering shoud be continued until the berries so as to gain a fantastic grape harvest.Although grape vines must be done to a backyard full of nutrients.One lesser known fact that grapes have the more well-known varieties include the cross arms.The grape will also make sure to flood your way.
Small Grape Plant
A single manipulation, like pruning, weeding, grape trellis, training, pest control, and enough direct sunlight.It not only have the potential to make sure to consider the grape plants with a shorter growing season is long, you need to fill a jar one-third full of Light, if we'll only become more and more flower clusters, but won't produce quality wines.You should only try to find out which varieties of grapes is tough.Use the thick, lush growth to gain growth, which is a mile away and we really have proof that people were refining grapes then it will turn the growth of your grape vines since they can serve as the clay particles will settle out first, followed by silt, and clay.It's really no need to consider the geographical location of the other hand like pesticides and fertilizers suitable for grape growing.
Suitable Soil conditions for grape growing to the hybrid grape variety that you probably need to fill a jar one-third full of grape by-products and preservatives such as the general lay of the grape wines.Healthy grapes, fit and ripe are what you'll construct the trellis system would ensure this, as well as what you will have two markets - wineries and juice out of seedlings.A lot of grape growing climate in your backyard even if you do grape growing that you will need more water.After this, remove the soil is completely occupied by grapes and you will need to check the location of your recently bought seedling pots.I know it seems and it can support the development of a trellis comes in very high in resveratrol.
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deans-baby-momma · 6 years
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Rescue Me-Chapter 10
A/N: This is it guys. The FINAL chapter of Rescue Me. I hope you all have enjoyed reading this story as much as I have had writing it. All the photos/gifs in this story have been images I have found on Google, except for the wedding one in this chapter. That is an original Miranda Austin (me) photograph. Not to brag but, well yea I’m bragging because I love that picture. hehehe.
Standing at my front window, I watch the snow fall; adding to the layer of powder already covering the ground. Dean had had to run to the Bunker to meet up with the HVAC technician when Brad called to inform him that the furnace wasn’t working. I stayed back to stay warm and finish dinner that we were in the middle of making when the call came in.
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Behind me stood a massive Douglas fir, lights blinking and twinkling in the early evening light. Dean and I, along with Sam and his girlfriend Jess had decorated it together last weekend. The evergreen was so tall that even Sam had used a step ladder to get the star on top. Dean and his brother had also braved the frigid winter air to hang decorations outside, to get into the spirit. Christmas is the day after tomorrow and it has always been my favorite holiday.
The tracks in the driveway from the Impala, Dean’s cherished Baby, was quickly being hidden with the new precipitation. I watch and pray that he makes it safely back home. The Impala, as beautiful a car as she is, isn’t really made for slick, icy roads. The timer on the oven beeps, taking me away from the window and the wonderland outside.
Taking the casserole out of the oven my engagement ring and wedding band catch my eye. I still can’t believe that after all these years Dean Winchester is my husband. I am a Winchester. I have been in love with him since I was a little girl in pigtails and now have been married to him going on seven months. I sit the casserole on the counter and reminisce about that day in May.
The morning sun filtered through the windows as I rushed around trying to make sure everything had been taken care of. The wedding was taking place in the park in the middle of town and it seemed as if everyone was attending. The Bunker was furnishing the refreshments, non-alcoholic of course, and food. Rita, the town’s only florist was donating her time and stock to decorate the old grape arbor that stood there. The grapevines were growing wildly across the top of the trellis. With the time spent with Rita, I had chosen light pinks and yellows to adorn the structure, along with red and pinks and purples hydrangeas. Rita outdid herself with the garlands. Each arrangement had a stargazer seated in the middle to bring in the red and pinks of the potted flowers that sat on logs alongside.
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By the time the ceremony was set to begin, not a cloud was in the sky and the sun shone brightly’ almost as if it’s rays were directed right at the spot where Dean and I would exchange vows. Everyone was in place and it was time for me to walk down the makeshift aisle. Since my own father had long since passed and I had been on my own, I escorted myself. I don’t remember much from the time my eyes met Dean’s until the moment he began his vows.
“We've been best friends for years. I've know you so long I can hardly remember a time when you weren't by my side. If it wasn't for you my life would be in a much darker place. You rescued me when I was going down a road I never would've made it back from. You helped me see what a spiraling mess I had became and pulled me back from the edge. If it wasn't for your friendship, your love I would have lost everything. You helped get me back on track, helped keep me from losing the bar, kept me from going to jail. You have done so much for me and I can never thank you enough, never show you just how much all that meant to me, but I promise to spend the rest of my life trying."
The tears ran down my face as I listened to him promise to live his life loving and protecting me. I couldn’t control them even as I spoke mine.
“Dean, I have loved you every day since I was seven years old and you shared your cookies with me. We have seen the best and the worst of each other and still seem to come back to one another. When I moved away, I thought I had lost my best friend but from the moment I sat foot back in town, I knew. I knew that you would be right here, by my side through it all. I love you so very much and I will spend the rest of my life showing you.”
“What are you thinking about beautiful?” Dean asks, bringing me back to the present. I was so into my daydream I hadn’t heard him pull up or even enter the house. I look over at him, leaning in the doorway between the kitchen and den and smile. My husband, I think to myself. He looks like a dream, even with flakes of snow stuck to the styled, spiky hair on his head.
“Our wedding day,” I answer walking toward him to hug him to me.
“Best day of my life,” he chuckles. “I got the girl.”
“Yes you did.” I tip toe and kiss his cold lips. “Let’s eat.”
After dinner, we sit in the front room with all the lights out, except for the tree. I look over at all the presents underneath, knowing that there is one there that I am dying to open. Dean had been secretive and had it wrapped and placed beneath the tree before I even knew. It wasn’t very large, just a regular shaped box that anything could be in. But the suspense was killing me!
“Babe?” I ask as we watch the lights sparkle.
“Yea?”
“I know it’s not time yet,” I begin, turning to look at him. “But can we start a tradition? We open one gift each on the day before Christmas.”
Dean chuckles and looks at his watch. “Well it is Christmas eve.”
I jump up and go grab the package, plus one that his name was on and join him back on the sofa. I hand him his and he sits it on his lap, watching as I rip into mine. Inside is a set of 5 coins, in a collage frame,  each with a date engraved on them. Dean points to each one, explaining the dates. “July 14, 1988 the day we met and shared my bag of cookies; August 28, 2004 the day you came back to town after what I call the biggest mistake you ever made.” I giggle at him and he smirks before continuing. “November 6, 2008 the day I got the balls to do what I’d wanted to do for a while. Which now that I say that out loud makes me sound like a perv.”
“Wait, what was November 6?” I ask, confused.
“The day you had the water leak and I let you stay with me,” he explains, running a hand across the back of his neck. “That night we slept together.” I look at him shocked.
“You remember the date?”
“Never gonna forget it baby,” he says as he leans over and kisses my lips.
:Such a sap,” I joke. “So finish telling me what these others are.”
“May 27, 2009 our wedding date. Like I said, best day of my life. And this one,” he points to the last one, engraved September 15, 2009. It a little different than the others. “This one is my one year sobriety. It has been one year, 3 months and 9 days since I took my last drink.”
I let the tears fall as I look between the coin and him. “Dean, that’s wonderful. I am so proud of you!” I throw my arms around his neck and hug him tight. Leaning back, I gesture toward his gift.
“Who knew I would give you a gift that will kind of go along with this?”
Dean looks at me puzzled as he pulls the bow off the box and opens the lid.
“We going to have to get another coin. December 22, 2009.The day I found out we’re having a baby!”
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“Wha--”
“In a little over six months, you’re going to be a father,” I say to Dean’s shocked expression, smiling happily.
The half-opened gift flew through the air as he grabbed me and tugged my body to his, squeezing tightly.   
SIX YEARS LATER
I watch as my daughter runs along the playground, flitting from the swings to the slide and back before going over to a bench and sitting down beside a little boy who, from all looks of it, was shy and bashful. Adrianna Parker Winchester pulls a baggie of cookies from her knapsack, offering him one. Dean said in his vows that I had rescued him but watching his daughter reenact our first encounter, I smile as I realized Dean rescued me first, all those years ago.  
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THE END
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"...she directed a doleful look of thanks to 'her' young footman, who was ingratiating himself with her by a 'Come, Madame, a few more grapes, they're 'eavenly', then went straight to open the window on the pretext that it was too hot 'in this wretched kitchen'." 🍇 "... occasionally the small fragment of nature from which the food had been extracted, the scaly-surfaced stoup of the oyster with its few remaining drops of sea water, or the gnarled stem and yellowed branches of a bunch of grapes, still enveloped it, inedible, poetic and distant as a landscape, evoking in the course of our meal the successive images of a siesta beneath a vine -trellis and a boat trip on the sea..." 🍇 #theguermantesway #proust #marcelproust #arememberanceofthingspast #insearchoflosttime #grapes #foodinbooks (had trouble sharing IG posts for a while - catching up on old posts this into is from Nov 2020) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHVTNvogSBi/?utm_medium=tumblr
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youmacaronirascal · 2 years
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Just bought a house with grapevines in th backyard, need help, advice and tips!
Hey gals and gents, please see the image dump in the link. http://imgur.com/gallery/gy9YkO1
We just bought a house recently and it came with a ton of fruit plants in the backyard, one in particular is this grape vines, from what I read and saw, none of the grape vines I see on youtube look like the ones in our backyard. Maybe the previous owners failed to maintain them properly? I'm not sure but I'm pretty confident that they're supposed to grow kind of upwards and looks like I might have a build a more grapevine appropriate trellis.
Any experts in here would be greatly appreciated.
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Dry Creek Poolhouse in Geyserville, Sonoma
Dry Creek Poolhouse, Geyserville Residence, Sonoma County Home, California Residential Architecture Images
Dry Creek Poolhouse in Geyserville
Modern Sonoma County Property in CA design By RO|ROCKETT DESIGN, United States of America
Jan 8, 2019
Dry Creek Poolhouse California
Architects: RO|ROCKETT DESIGN
Location: Geyserville, Sonoma County, California, USA – north of San Francisco
Dry Creek Poolhouse in Sonoma County, CA
Anchored by an inventive reuse of local materials on a constrained lot in a beautiful Sonoma County landscape, this project started as a country retreat and evolved into a full-time residence.
The desired program added a pool, poolhouse, outdoor living area, gardens, bocce court and guest arrival with overflow parking. The property was long and narrow, hugging a busy roadway but situated to look beyond the constraints to spectacular vistas of rolling vineyards and classic coastal California ridgelines beyond.
The budget was tight and the aspirations were large. The design raises the pool high on the property and cuts the pool house into the hillside – allowing the horizon of the pool edge to edit the view to the road below.
Nestled into the hill with it’s back to the trees, the new, earthen ground plane acts as a primitive plinth that supports a rustic enclosure. The prime program of the pool house is wrapped in grape stakes gathered from the property and resawn to operate as a shroud to the private innards of the building.
This cladding provides solid walls where necessary and opens to the view where desirable. The modest interior footprint seamlessly expands to the terrace beyond with the help of a rough-sawn trellis that floats overhead, providing needed shade in the hottest times of day.
Conceived as a rustic retreat for a couple of city dwellers, the property quickly became a full-time respite that lives and breathes the Sonoma County lifestyle.
Dry Creek Poolhouse, California – Building Information
Architect: RO|ROCKETT DESIGN Built Area: 301 sf Location: Geyserville, CA, USA Completion Year: 2014 Project Team: Jason Ro – PrincipalZac Rockett – Principal Structural Engineer – Berkeley Structural Design Civil Engineer – Kelder Engineering, Kurt T. Kelder General Contractor – JMH Consultants, Jon Hallengren
Photographs: Adam Rouse
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