Thursday, April 26, 2012

Magnolia leaves, garden, Roscoe

 Having moved here from the Northeast, I still am not used to leaf management as practiced by Ma Nature. Our leaves happily hold on all winter then fall in the Spring. The new leaves on a lot of tree species emerge as colorful reds and yellows. In Vermont we called those occurrences Autumn. I like it though. These leaves take a long time to decompose, but make a great mulch.

6 comments:

Martina said...

Yap. These photos show Autumn!

Strange it is - I just finished reading Zuckmayer's memoirs. He lived in Vermont for some years and in his memoirs he tells us about the strong winters, about the vegetation, the seasons in general etc..
Just a thought.

Martina said...

Since I am great Zuckmayer fan I can't resist to link this:

http://www.thevermontstandard.com/2010/11/45-year-wait-ends-at-the-zuckmayer-farm/

James Weekes said...

Vermont is the polar opposite of where we live now. We were in central western Vermont. Always within a mile or so of Lake Champlain (we grew up on Long Island, outside of New York City and our lawn went down to Oyster Bay, so we need water like other people need Mountains or forests or cities). Vermont had a long and lovely Autumn, a long and very cold Winter, a miniscule Spring and a short Summer during which it could get very warm. It had mountains, forests, rivers and a lovely set of lakes. It was a joy to raise our children there and the friends we made continue to this day, but, my wife first and then I realized we'd like to be by salt water, with more warm days and greenery all the time, so we moved here when she found a way to transfer in her job.

Which of Zuckmayer's books di you read, I'd love to give it a scan.

James Weekes said...

I have ordered the translation of Alice Zuckmayer's book. They raised chickens!! My kind of people.

Martina said...

This one:
A Part of Myself, Portrait of an Epoch (New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1970, translated by Winston, Richard and Clara)

I read it every other four or five years. It's hard to explain ... it gives me some kind of hope. Humankind might be bad, but not that bad.
And I think it's one of the best books to read if you are interested in knowing about Germans and their attitude during the World Wars and the decades afterwards.
I've havent read his wife's book, though.

Martina said...

Ah, so please tell me after you've read it if it's worth it and I might read it too :-)