If you’d asked me prior to this year when hydrangea season was, I probably would have guessed Spring. Maybe September?
Despite living in ThePalace(OfLove) for almost 10 years, was I completely oblivious to the many magnificent specimens in the neighbourhood.
these appear to be one plant, but surely not?
slightly more common around here
December it is!
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I realised this week how much I use the blog as an aide-mémoire when I was pondering how to use those precious 19 days away from SML over Xmas.
Neither Don or I could remember at all what we did last year when we had a similar length break, so I took to the blog archives – which generally kicks the grey matter into gear.
Except … I apparently did not blog at all in December 2020. And there are barely an photographs on the camera roll either.
I’m not sure if this is incredibly freeing or troubling.
I think maybe I cross-stitched a bit?
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My anxiety levels are on the rise – along with a sharp increase in COVID numbers. The Government has removed most mask and venue check-in mandates this week, which seems very ill-thought out, but here we are.
It would benefit me greatly to cease with the doom-scrolling and other such numbing and stressful activities.
Perhaps I could blog a little more during this time so 2022 me can look back and remember what she did.
Note to Future Self: you were really pretty stressed, comfort eating A LOT and spending way too much time online in not-good ways. You also weren’t doing any of those nurturing activities that you absolutely know you need to do to stay on an even keel.
Those hydrangeas are gorgeous! I think what governs the colour is how acid or alkaline the soil is, or minerals in the soil, so I imagine that if roots on one side of a plant had a rusty nail buried among them while those on the other side did not, you might be able to get that variation on a single plant. “Single” can be a little confusing w/r/t hydrangeas, anyway; they develop a complicated root system.
I’m all in favor of ceasing to doom-scroll (I never started) but then you should blog more to make up (um, pot, meet kettle!). 🙂
We need a “blog more” pact!
I’m fairly confident that whatever’s going on with that hydrangea isn’t deliberate – that garden is pretty unkempt – but totally buy the theory of the rusty nail. I wonder if animal urine would do it.
My blog is coming up to 20 years now and I constantly use it as a reminder of things past. A few years ago a colleague mentioned he and I had been to see a show at the Opera House. I had no memory of it until I checked my blog and the memories came flooding back.
Yes! This is exactly why I must continue – else I’ll never remember anything.
I’m giving my Past Self a hug, she really didn’t know what she was doing and they were stressful times 🙂