I have another blog site

 

artist:  Pawel Kujinski

I have resumed writing and posting in it because I have so many more visitors there.

I actually began posting in it about 2016,  but have picked up now.

So from now on, visit me at   annesbirdpoems.wordpress.com

New life for E Wing

 I'm just beginning to talk about this, but I wanted to post some before and after photos.

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Trump won the election

 I can't believe it.  He is so crazy and corrupt.  However, a few rebuttals on Facebook from some of the women who were my students back in Petersburg VA in the 1980's, and in Baltimore in the 1990's, helped me to understand why they, and so many others, voted for the Republicans.  As one news source said,

Exit polls 2024: Deep economic discontent with Biden drove voters to Trump

Sigh.

History of my votes

 

let me see if I can remember all of them.  The list is getting long.

1972      Hubert Humphrey

1976 Jimmy Carter

1980 Jimmy Carter

1982  Walter Mondale

1988 Michael Dukakis

1992 Bill Clinton

1996  Bill Clinton

2000 Al Gore

2004   John Kerry

2008 Barack Obama

2012  Barack Obama

2016  Hillary Clinton

2020  Joe Biden

2024  Kamala Harris

So - 14 presidential elections, and I voted Democratic in all of them.  And my candidate lost in 5 of them.   I pray Kamala doesn't lose in this one.

Praying

 

the Golden Hour from my window

  As Election Day approaches, I keep praying this prayer:

From my window on November 3

 

"If it is true that one of the greatest pleasures of gardening lies in looking forward, then the planning of next year's beds and borders must be one of the most agreeable occupations in the gardener's calendar.  This should make October and November particularly pleasant months, for then we may begin to clear our borders, to cut down those sodden and untidy stalks, to dig up and increase our plants, and to move them to other positions where they will show up to greater effect.  People who are not gardeners always say that the bare beds of winter are uninteresting; gardeners know better, and take even a certain pleasure in the neatness of the newly dug, bare, brown earth."

-   Vita Sackville-West 

 

"In the evenings

I scrape my fingernails clean,

hunt through old catalogues for new seed,

oil work boots and shears.

This garden is no metaphor --

more a task that swallows you into itself,

earth using, as always, everything it can."

-  Jan Hirshfield, November, Remembering Voltaire

 

Images to usher in November

 

Barara Danneherr    Tree of Life