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May 31, 2008
Go slow.
Yes. Its my unofficial motto. Or official even.
And plus the little sign is at the Waters School Community Gardens (scroll down on the linked page for photos of Waters' garden- they are insufficient but you get the general idea). Oh! What a wonderful place! I am hoping to get more photos when I remember to bring my camera. Its rather magical.
Kids from the school have their own little garden plots on one side, and adults can garden on the other side- and friends and neighbors can volunteer and play in the dirt one night a week. Oso and I visited yesterday and perused the pathways- I kept wanting to eat all the lettuce, but somehow managed to restrain myself. However, I did succumb to the urge to pull on what I thought was a carrot which had planted itself in no-man's land- a surrounding natural prairie. Well, I wasn't sure it was a carrot, so I had to know! Because if stray carrots are planting themselves places, wouldn't you want to know it? I couldn't help myself. Even after I pulled it up, at first I only saw white roots and dirt, so I still wasn't sure. Then I saw it- the embryonic- because baby carrot doesn't begin to describe it- vaguely orange, smaller than Marcel's little toe- carrot!!! Omg. Oso hurriedly replanted it while I apologized earnestly and profusely to the carrot- all the while hoping nobody saw. Omg, I am sufficiently remorseful! I repent of my carrot murdering ways. Believe it!
Oh, and we talked to a nice man named Pete who was planting potatoes.
After that we wandered over by the river on our bikes. Until recently, I had forgotten that there is, in fact, a branch of the Chicago River within blocks of my house. And plus, did you know? There are a kerjillion Canada geese there, on the loose! If you feed them bread they will hiss at you but they will come and take it from your hand first.
(note background squirrel silhouette. He did get a few crumbs before the geese chased him off.)
There are babies too! So cute! So fuzzy!
They are just learning to be ornery-
Its much harder to appear menacing when your beak is so small.
I never realized it but geese have very serious tongues.
Anyway then we were riding home and we passed this tree that was literally full of these magical bird houses. Birds actually inhabit them. My landlady has bird houses which are actually nonfunctional- this is why it surprised me to see sparrows going in and out of the little holes.
Oso's camera phone, unfortunately, can't do it any justice.
Oh, and plus I've been knitting, too. And drawing.
More later, I mean it, really.
Posted by at May 31, 2008 08:09 PM