Your Inner Hermit enjoys gardening

 Photos taken the end of July 2022.

This is Lythrum "Terra Nova", more commonly known as Purple Loosestrife

Hollyhocks

Foxglove

The garden on the hottest day of the summer . . .

 Garden photos taken on Saturday, 06 August 2022; +34 C:

The garden at the beginning of August

 Photos taken of my garden on August 5, 2022.

Your Inner hermit

 

Go with your Inner Hermit

Having to live with problems in today's world--war in Europe and a lot of conflict between people in society--I would prescribe gardening for anyone who wants some inner peace and quiet. Go with your Inner Hermit, the eremite gardener, the almost-recluse, the walking in society but not of society... and a few birds along for the journey. Even a tiny garden, a few containers on a balcony, is escape from the world and an invitation to birds and insects to visit. 

Walking to Meadowbrook Golf Course

It's been a few months since I walked to Meadowbrook Golf Course located at the far western end of Cote St. Luc Road. Here are some photos from the walk beginning with the completed construction of burying the St. Pierre River (seen looking over a fence at Toe Blake Park); what was left of the river (more of a creek) is gone, shrubs and grass planted, a road along the edge, and a man hole cover.

Here (below) is Cote St. Luc Road as it approaches Meadowbrook Golf Course; it used to be tree lined and quite pleasant, here it is earlier this week. 

Review of GEC's J'Accuse (Poem versus Silence)

Here is my review of George Elliott Clarke's J'Accuse, in which GEC fights back against the kancel kulture that tried to destroy his literary career, and could have succeeded. 

Go to https://poets.ca/review-gec-jaccuse/

Honeybees at Mountainview School

I was walking through the parking lot at Mountainview School, just a few blocks from here, when I discovered they have a beehive. The bees are being fed sugar water, which is common in spring, to build up the hive and it looks like a pretty robust hive; the bees are coming and going. I hope they visit my garden, I like seeing honey bees on my flowers, it's one of the things I really like to see as it reminds me of when I was an amateur beekeeper many years ago. The school also has a garden and it looks like they're growing a lot of garlic, and nothing else. 

All garlic?

Mountainview School, beehive is behind the fence on the right

I returned the morning of July 8 and the hives are doing well; the beekeeper has added another box for the bees to expand making honey.

Review of Ken Norris's South China Sea in periodicity

Here is my review of Ken Norris's South China Sea, just published in periodicity journal.

The garden's progress; the height of summer

It's an incredible summer for the garden, lush, green, flowers, an abundance of everything and everything in the garden never better than this summer. Even I am impressed!

 

Review of The Green Archetypal Field of Poetry

Here is a link to Cynthia Coristine's review of my new book, The Green Archetypal Field of Poetry; what a terrific review for which I am very grateful!

The review can be found here, or copy and paste the following: https://poets.ca/review-the-green-archetypal-field-of-poetry-stephen-morrissey/

Robin in the bird bath

Yesterday morning, I saw a blue jay in the bird bath, an early morning visitor; perhaps some visitors don't want to make their presence known so they come and go at an early hour. Later yesterday I took these photographs of a robin in the bird bath, he knew I was there but stayed in the bird bath for about five minutes. Seeing birds, seeing birds in the bird bath, it gives a lot to life...

You're a cheeky one, aren't you, little robin?