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and it was cold.

Dahlia:
- sun/part shade
- blooms: June - frost (Oct/Nov)
- winter: cut stems to 1" above ground; mulch.
Calibrachoa (mini petunias)
- full sun (6+ hrs)
- "simple care in container/basket"
- blooms: spring - summer
- water: heavy
- spacing: 10-15"
Aeonium Schwartzkopf black/chocolate rose aeonium
- sun
- blooms: summer (on mature plants)
- water: not much
- best in planters with dry, well-drained soil; let dry between watering
Alyssum (snow crystals)

jul 30 2012 ∞
jul 30 2012 +

jan 25 2012 ∞
aug 19 2012 +

SummerWinds potting soil is composted softwood bark. Use gloves or end up with a handful of dirt and splinters.
avoid fb in the summer; not good for the heart.
'full sun' does not mean 'full sun in California'
dye eggs naturally with blueberries, beets, and tumeric.
plan gardening season with sprout robot.
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jul 30 2012 ∞
oct 5 2013 +

"幸福，是找到自己的路，又能幫別人開路。" －沈芯菱
“And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.” - Kenyan proverb
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso
"To hell with modesty, man! It never healed a person on this earth, tell'um what you know inside - loud and clear from your heart." - Walt Whitman
"La connaissance n'est pas lourde à porter." - Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe

jan 25 2012 ∞
oct 16 2015 +

jul 7 2012 ∞
oct 16 2013 +

"Anyone could tell it, anyone who had a momma who went eighteen years without a new dress so that her sons could have school clothes, who picked cotton in other people's fields and ironed other people's clothes and cleaned the mess in other people's houses, so that her children didn't have to live on welfare alone, so that one of them could climb up her backbone and escape the poverty and hopelessness that ringed them, free and clean" (xii).
"While you read words laced with bitterness and killing anger and vicious envy, words of violence and sadness and hopefully, dark humor, you will not read much whining. Not on her part, certainly, because she does not know how" (xiii).
"But I came home to a coldly modern funeral home, to the people of our community sitting quietly in their pews, white socks peeking out from under their black dress...

aug 19 2012 ∞
aug 19 2012 +