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On Sunday, I Toil

Early to the nursery, that way I get a good parking place and a wagon to stack another 4 bags of soil. Sometimes I pick up four bags on Saturday and go back on Sunday for another four but yesterday was a retreat at the Buddhist center so my weekend soil ration was halved. 

I’ve come to appreciate the houseplant greenhouse at Tillery. It’s a complete jungle. It puts me in a different mental state. I cannot be trusted with a houseplant, it would mean certain death for any specimen that I brought home but I like to visit them. 

I took my new camera and am feeling a little underwhelmed with the photos. It is a nice size but has a wide angle fixed lens that I am having a difficult time adjusting to. 

We laughed at how bad my photos were. I promised myself to go back with a different camera. And lo, I bought two of the tiniest houseplants I’d ever seen. Three bucks a pop. They were only labeled as “assorted houseplant”. I hope they don’t die and I hope my photos improve.





 

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