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Early morning.

Today I was watering my plants at 6:30am in the dark (this is when you realize WHY...

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9 Oct, 2008
Raquel

Blackberry-eating

Now that the weather has changed, just thought I would share this poem by Galway...

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4 Oct, 2008
Raquel

Last Saturday in September

Last Saturday-well, all last weekend, actually-I spent it happily dedicated to my...

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4 Oct, 2008
Raquel

Insects and other things.

I don't know what happened, maybe the hurricane stirred up eggs and larvae, because...

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27 Sep, 2008
Raquel

The plants sheltered in place.

And happily, they all survived the hurricane! We were told late Thursday that everything...

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27 Sep, 2008
Raquel

Poems

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign...

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25 Sep, 2008
Raquel

Pet evacuees

One of the more touching aspects of this whole hurricane ordeal (after the human...

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25 Sep, 2008
Raquel

After the storm

After the storm everything slowly returns to normal, but nothing is quite the same...things...

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23 Sep, 2008
Raquel

It's myrtle time! Crape myrtle, that is.

In the depth of summer, around late June and in July, the crape myrtles really take...

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3 Sep, 2008
Raquel

So what would you do with a farm?

Sometimes when i think of my dad's farm, I wonder what I would do with it if I could....

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25 Aug, 2008
Raquel

La finca / The farm

I always write about my mother and her garden, and that's because it is really she...

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25 Aug, 2008
Raquel

Flowering gerbera in pictures.

I thought it might be fun to record how a gerbera slowly flowers over the course...

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11 Aug, 2008
Raquel


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