Weekend mosaic
Posted on | July 15, 2007 |
A trip to the farmer’s market yesterday; fresh baby artichokes, the sweetest cherry tomatoes, currants, and fresh-baked bread. Wandering amidst stalls of blue hand thrown bowls, golden bouquets of sunflowers, savory samosas, and throngs of kids and dogs. Then sore muscles and satisfaction: finishing the hen house and putting in ten-foot posts for the garden fence. Hours in the sun, mud stained.
This is how he spells his love: wresting cedar posts into position, mixing cement, and framing out the door for the coop, using the funky top-half of a Dutch door that I’ve had my heart set on. These are not his projects, but he makes the so, for me. And I can’t help grinning watching him move, biceps sweat slicked, scratching our initials into the cement of the final post.
These are the days that imprint like sun spots on my memory. Iced espresso and buttered cinnamon toast carried out on a white metal tray for an afternoon snack. Bean with mud on his knees, loading gravel into his dump truck. The field windswept and freckled with daisies and black-eyed-susan’s, and the sky above blue with a ragged tatter of clouds. The beginning of things to last: the phantoms of future raspberry bushes, an asparagus patch, bowls of new summer lettuce, and pastel eggs nestled into hay.
How did you spend your weekend?
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July 15th, 2007 @ 10:00 pm
You cause me to see how delicious life can truly be…
July 16th, 2007 @ 1:26 am
Can I just say, please please, never delete this blog. If you someday decide to stop updating/writing here, please don’t deprive us of these pretty words. I want to come back in 10 years, and still be able to find this, and just float with your diction and descriptions. I love the way you write. It is so amazingly poetic.
July 16th, 2007 @ 1:34 am
Being a grump. What a waste!
July 16th, 2007 @ 8:30 am
Helping/watching oldest dd exhibit at the county fair - arts & crafts, horticulture, photography, a vocal solo, market hogs, dog show, ribbon auction. Also carnival rides, horse show, tractor pull, demo derby, rodeo, and figure-8 races. Exhilerating, stressful, exhausting, and so much fun.
July 16th, 2007 @ 9:23 am
what a beautiful mosaic of your weekend!
i worked, worked, went camping, took a nap, washed the floor, vacuumed the rugs, sorted through some toys and miscellaneous clutter around the house, worked again. whew, my weekends are often jam packed like that. i am enjoying a bit of downtime this morning.
July 16th, 2007 @ 11:31 am
beautiful! your words and these photos are gorgeous.
my weekend was filled with time spent with dear friends. quite the treat…
July 16th, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
My weekend was spent harvesting red raspberries and blueberries at a pick your own farm. My 6-year-old filled her own sand pail full of raspberries, but the 3-year-olds just picked to eat. When we were ready to move across the dirt path to pick blueberries the kids found a grassy spot to eat cheddar flavored goldfish, and to color. They then gave us a two minute warning of when they wanted to leave, much to the amusement of the other people harvesting around us. We had to be speed pickers! We also fished at a Cousin’s cabin from the dock, catching too-small sunfish and the occational crappy, and throwing them back to let them grow up. Now that the jam is made, and the blueberry lemon muffins…there is just the pie that is waiting for me to bake. It was a beautiful weekend.
July 16th, 2007 @ 4:06 pm
what a lovely weekend…
July 16th, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
The boy is living in Ohio for the summer in order to do some business but he came back for a weekend visit. Sigh. So lovely. A visit to the lake with Harry Potter books (!), yummy ice cream, a delicious Cuban dinner complete with mango mojitos, lying in bed together, late night wine, etc etc etc. So sweet and magical- just like your writing Christina