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its tacky and i hate it
Who decided this is ok? As a huge proponent of the color orange, I wait all year for pumpkin season. I love to carve them, eat them, display them. They add such a pop to the sometimes gray days as winter rolls around. Evidently, a host of so-called designers decided this season that it would be cute to spray paint them into gaudy baubles instead of letting their natural beauty shine through. In addition to my aesthetic sense telling me that pumpkins are best left orange, my philosophical sense says it’s nearly a sin to rob them of their orange nature. So, while many gourds may have a lovely, sculptural shape, their essence is in their color. Please, don’t deny them this by oozing gold paint all over them.
After two months in a second floor studio apartment, I’m dying for some outdoor space. I try not to remember the days when I had a screened in porch, or even a front stoop. I’d never say I’m a country girl but I am from Indiana, a state where it’s hard to get far from wide expanses of nothing. Now I have a window that looks out over a parking lot. Which made me reevaluate some of my priorities and taught me a valuable architecture lesson about space.
So when my lease is up, the second prerequisite for a new place (other than pets allowed) is some sort of balcony/porch/stoop/yard. I know I’m in the city, and I’m not asking for much. A fire escape would do. A mangy looking weed patch. Just…something to call my own where I can feel the breeze on my face.
I’ve fallen in love with the notion of a pergola and will now require one in my Barbie dream home. When I have a rich husband and wall-to-wall bookshelves with a rolling ladder in my study. I have actually seen a couple of these lovely structures within city limits, so perhaps it’s not too far-fetched.
fall card
Still no one wants to pay me to do anything. Nonethless, I am still doing things. That will show them.
This card is something I did today. It’s welcoming in the fall! And I think it’s pretty cute. It’s another one made from the insides of security envelopes [see Day 15.]
Fall happens to be my favorite season, and it’s right around the corner. On Wednesday we are going into the country to go apple picking! Which is splendid because I love: fall, apples, orange leaves, pumpkins, petting zoo?, hayrides……There will be lots of pictures to show.
Today I had an all-day-long saga with my mint plant. First, I noticed little black specks on it, mostly near the bottom. Some on leaves, and also some on the counter top near the plant. I thought A)someone watered it with a used coffee cup with some grounds still in it, or B) it has bugs. After googling it, I found that mint is a plant that has very little trouble with bugs, so that is unlikely. Also, aphids or mites are almost always evident to the naked eye as being bugs, while this stuff really just looked like coffee grinds. So I misted the plant with soapy water, and put it out of my mind for awhile.
Until! I was cutting up dinner and out of the corner of my eye I noticed the slightest movement coming from the plant. Could it have been a water droplet from the earlier misting? Or something more sinister? I wasn’t brave enough to inspect it much closer with my naked eye, so I got out my camera with the trusty old zoom. And now I believe that the “coffee grounds” were actually the POOP of some very strange bug. It looks just like a stem of the plant, but I think it has tiny arms and a mouth. Sort of like a walking stick? What is IT?! After google session #2, I found one lead- a picture on a blog that looks sorrrrt of similar: http://mrimomma.blogspot.com/2007/06/inchworm.html.
It describes some various kinds of caterpillars, but none have me convinced that they are what’s eating my mint. Hopefully once the boy gets off work I will be brave enough to poke the creature with a stick and thereby gather more conclusive evidence.
teacup
As long as I’m planning to record inspiring things I see around the city, why not start in my own apartment? It’s pretty tiny, so tiny details like this teacup candle holder and teacup planter add interest without taking up too much space.
I’m not typically drawn to the dainty side of things but teacups are one instance where I find floral motifs and the tiny scale appealing. I’ve actually unwittingly amassed something of a collection of them, but I don’t actually use them for tea because I prefer bigger mugs.
What other uses for teacups are there?
