• the plants in the backyard are almost all cleaned up – the geraniums are still green and I can’t bring myself to cut them, but the next cold-spell will surely freeze them
  • the bay-leaf is indoors and so it the Frank Lloyd Wright Indian Woman (on a whim I put her on the window sill next to the bay-leaf)
  • all the new bulbs are planted (I was anxious that the weather would get ahead of me, but this past week has been unseasonably warm)
  • it’s been a deep and dark December