Archive | July, 2009

Tractors and Trucks

We laid out the bulbs nicely in the center of the rows, to plant them. I drove my tractor over the rows, pulling an implement to cover them with dirt. Things were really going great and the rows were looking nice. I appropriately snapped the latch by my handle on the tractor to pull the [...]

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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

Sometimes you feel like you’re being hunted. (And not just if you’re a cemetery iris, oxblood lily, Crinum Mrs. James Hendry, or any of the other bulbs I’ve hunted myself in recent weeks.) Living in a small, rustic, red cabin in East Texas certainly has its charm, but when the brown recluses, beetles, wasps, and [...]

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