tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post5499565456997356954..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Late summer longueurs, with pumpkins, onions and visitors.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-15110159940520658812012-08-26T17:47:14.817+02:002012-08-26T17:47:14.817+02:00Thanks again.
LdP - how could I not with such an ...Thanks again.<br /><br />LdP - how could I not with such an impassioned recommendation?<br /><br />RR - Wow, thanks, how interesting! I vaguely remember about schemata (I think that's the fancy plural but don't think it's necessary, on the site you link to they just stick an 's' on) but wouldn't have made a connection. So is the enclosure/trajectory thing reckoned to be gender-skewed? Though I think perhaps a more fnah-fnah Freudian interpretation is more fun, or at least the way my mind runs. I fought shy of getting too knee-jerk about men all being weapon-obsessed, but swords or ploughshares, whatever. There are other factors at work I suppose: bags have never interested me over-much, bowls and to a lesser extent boxes much more, from which one may deduce that you like to travel and carry things with you, which is probably another schema like transport or something, and I like to stay home and collect and concoct things, which might be assembling, I guess. <br /><br />Cars must cover a lot of bases, transport, position, enclosure, trajectory... <br /><br />Still think it's quite a lot to do with wombs and willies.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-11174790411136967952012-08-26T00:58:32.062+02:002012-08-26T00:58:32.062+02:00Paiget's schemas. Enclosure schema and traject...Paiget's <a href="http://www.birchfarm.co.uk/schemas.htm" rel="nofollow">schemas</a>. Enclosure schema and trajectory schema in particular. (But isn't schema plural already?) Anyway. Bags v guns. I have, you'll be astonished to know, two gunners. Sprung from an obsessive bagger. Bag lady!rrhttp://twistedrib.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-45114487324135811862012-08-18T00:54:35.394+02:002012-08-18T00:54:35.394+02:00I love how the sunflowers seem to be keeping watch...I love how the sunflowers seem to be keeping watch for someone, straining to look out over the yard to see who's coming.<br /><br />Mol is adorable.<br /><br />And I'm impressed with your botanical knowledge :)HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-75010563774577717902012-08-17T08:23:14.901+02:002012-08-17T08:23:14.901+02:00All these greenery stories are keeping me out of y...All these greenery stories are keeping me out of your comment box, offering only opportunities to make a fool of myself. This is infuriating since I have a vitally important query about conversational mores in France which I've been dying to insert privily and which will have to wait for some more propitious time.<br /><br />However (equally privily) you may have noticed that the regular British Film Institute poll has, after fifty years, displaced Citizen Kane from the best movie of all time and substituted Vertigo. Ho hum. Much more important Oyu's Tokyo Story (shot in 1953) moved up to third. I've been aware of TS for many decades but have never had a chance to see it. Given the passage of time I felt I had to buy it. Watched it last night as part of the ineluctable uphill flow of events towards my birthday. The simplest of stories - an absolute masterpiece. Silence as the final credits ran which, given the audience (Mr and Mrs LdP and elder daughter Professional Bleeder), was a triumph in itself. In book terms on the same level as <i>Le Père Goriot</i>, and not entirely dissimilar. You cannot afford to be without the experience.<br /><br />No need to respond to this command. Merely act.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-41963449533929860282012-08-16T23:06:04.671+02:002012-08-16T23:06:04.671+02:00Lucy, please do...I love these glimpses into your ...Lucy, please do...I love these glimpses into your everyday life, both in pictures and stories. And the pumpkin-family images are especially beautiful!Bethhttp://www.cassandrapages.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-57286709054069818852012-08-16T04:13:35.649+02:002012-08-16T04:13:35.649+02:00Eep, why twice?Eep, why twice?Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-90877174205557484022012-08-16T04:13:00.794+02:002012-08-16T04:13:00.794+02:00Thanks, Lucy--since June I'm afraid that about...Thanks, Lucy--since June I'm afraid that about all I have accomplished is reading... or so I feel. Looking forward to completion of the project.marly youmanshttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-2314120746663221782012-08-16T04:12:51.313+02:002012-08-16T04:12:51.313+02:00Thanks, Lucy--since June I'm afraid that about...Thanks, Lucy--since June I'm afraid that about all I have accomplished is reading... or so I feel. Looking forward to completion of the project.marly youmanshttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-9917173266794799202012-08-15T18:43:56.793+02:002012-08-15T18:43:56.793+02:00Thanks all.
Cat - some of my yellow/orange pumpki...Thanks all.<br /><br />Cat - some of my yellow/orange pumpkins are football sized already, I have high hopes!<br /><br />Marly - Mol will steal green peas from the colander while I'm picking them, but stops short, so far, of picking them off the bushes. As ever, the things you find time for astonish me; good luck with the reading!<br /><br />Alison - thanks for the link. I think some zucchini are self fertilising, I think otherwise the fruits start to form but unless fertilised, wither and drop off. I guess it's all in the timing...<br /><br />Anne - did a bit of rootling about male blossoms, but no one seems certain, seems as if the taking off the male blossoms is for cucumbers, otherwise, unless you've a self-fertilising hybrid of summer squash, some at least are necessary. Spaghetti squash/marrows, or vegetable spaghetti here!<br /><br />R - I had a Japanese friend in England who grew excellent veg from seeds she used to bring back from Japan, including a fabulous and very beautiful variety of pumpkin, similar to the Crown Prince variety, blue-green corrugated outside and very dense, sweet orange flesh with which she too made wonderful tempura. Lovely about the hummingbird!<br /><br />CGP - they do take up a bit of room - sorry to hear about the courgettes!<br /><br />Plutarch - ah the poor sap, he thinks it's all about him but really he's just the go-between... I don't know what the French for that particular cliché might be, never having had occasion to use or indeed hear it. Setu could probably tell you...(in about 15 languages!)<br /><br />Setu - she is a good girl then! Though Ploeuc is really quite Gallo Brittany of course. Of course the pronunciation isn't exactly Plurk, but a shorter sound somewhere between that and Plock and Pluck... We also had a Costarmorican do well in the BMX, I believe, but we find that's a bit too gladiatorial for our taste, all those broken collar bones make me wince. I was quite happy that I genuinely felt more involved with a local Olympian than with all the British medal winners, though I was happy for them too. Sorry about your pumpkin failure!<br /><br />PC - Mussels are a bit fab, and cheap and sustainable too. Not sure pumpkins would make a great balcony crop, unless you get a baby variety, but courgettes/zucchini might be.<br /><br />Dick - I didn't really mean to take much notice of the Olympics, and in fact didn't watch a great deal, but kind of enjoyed it being on, and with the family here it was quite nice having it there and people wandering in and out and commenting and cheering people on and stuff, so I enjoyed the event.<br /><br />Nimble - happy to amuse! In fact, as I said to Setu, it's not quite as crude a sound as Plurk, but still has something of a sink plunger in action quality about it!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-14358340057836219252012-08-15T16:59:47.482+02:002012-08-15T16:59:47.482+02:00Only time to say that pronouncing the word Ploeuc ...Only time to say that pronouncing the word Ploeuc has made my day.Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-24255238036288253112012-08-14T19:14:21.560+02:002012-08-14T19:14:21.560+02:00Beautiful sunflowers (and all else). Ours have fai...Beautiful sunflowers (and all else). Ours have failed along with everything else except for hardy herbs, which have flourished.<br /><br />A shame to miss the celebrations! We got drawn into the whole thing, quite against intentions and we watched Mlle Bresset doing good for Ploeuc!Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-1714736942872457172012-08-14T16:17:30.315+02:002012-08-14T16:17:30.315+02:00another lovely post, made me crave mussels.
can&...another lovely post, made me crave mussels. <br /><br />can't wait till next year when i'll plant a wee garden on my balcony. the polish chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929281676865641560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-34233010627134235862012-08-13T23:26:53.359+02:002012-08-13T23:26:53.359+02:00I watched the beginning and the end of Julie's...I watched the beginning and the end of Julie's race. She is a very nice young lady with an iron will. She might achieve great things in the future, I think. And look, I am not chauvinistic, but she said "Long live Brittany!" before saying "Long live France!" Good girl! I think her fellow-citizens were shouting for joy when she crossed the finishing line. <br />Yes, Ploeuc sounds like Plurk (and Plogoff like Plug Off, that's why we have no nuclear plant there ;-)<br />Your pumpkin series is full of suspense: I hope it will have a successful end. The first (and last) time I grew pumpkins, I found that all the beautiful small fruits had been carefuly eaten by some animal. A rabbit, perhaps? Setuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696552533529329430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-66191376007322374642012-08-13T18:30:33.007+02:002012-08-13T18:30:33.007+02:00Fascinated by the insect on the pumpkin flower and...Fascinated by the insect on the pumpkin flower and its mastery of langauge. English too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-75341402274914406342012-08-13T17:34:20.866+02:002012-08-13T17:34:20.866+02:00I enjoyed reading this and such lovely photos, spe...I enjoyed reading this and such lovely photos, specially the golden sunflowers. Fascinating discussion of pumpkin flowers, i hadn't really thought about it, as we don't have enough room to grow pumpkins, though we did try courgettes last year as we got the seeds from somewhere, we got beautiful flowers but no fruit, Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-44664778540871827012012-08-12T22:38:42.114+02:002012-08-12T22:38:42.114+02:00This makes me wonder about the pumpkins in Japan. ...This makes me wonder about the pumpkins in Japan. Sliced they made the most delightful tempura, which simply doesn't work with the pumpkins round here. Your long post made me happy. I poured a Nut Brown Ale and then sat back to read, click on the photos, and relax. There's quite a bit of havoc here now with the roof being torn off to be replaced. The last several rains brought down the ceiling! Luckily, my buckets were in place. And back to the garden. I was puttering around the building this afternoon, thinking for the umpteenth time that I should chop the weeds growing at the edge of the parking lot, when a hummingbird appeared and fed from the monster weed in the corner. I would have never thought to see hummingbirds here in the deep city. I've been smiling the entire afternoon!<br /><br />Supper? Mussels!!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-37855230104517938402012-08-12T17:39:17.905+02:002012-08-12T17:39:17.905+02:00Our weather out here in the Pacific Northwest has ...Our weather out here in the Pacific Northwest has been a lot like yours and my zucchini (I grow the yellow variety) are just staying finger size while big male blossom after male blossom bursts open for a morning and then crumples. The spaghetti squash (I have no idea what you Brits call them) are numerous and growing larger. Lots of male blossoms on those too. Somebody told me that the male blossoms should be removed to get more fruit. Is that true?Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04979547096244105508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-64557590191881960292012-08-12T14:25:55.814+02:002012-08-12T14:25:55.814+02:00Lucy, everything about this post delights me. The ...Lucy, everything about this post delights me. The feeding = entertainment, the difference between male and female blossoms (thank you! now I know why I have so many flowers and yet no squashes), the humor that makes me laugh out loud. Here's a link to a little town in NH that you really should go visit around Halloween some year: http://pumpkinfestival2011.org/<br /><br />xo, alisonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-14463531101492878072012-08-12T03:13:30.328+02:002012-08-12T03:13:30.328+02:00You are lucky in Mol and veggies... Our Susquehann...You are lucky in Mol and veggies... Our Susquehanna now eats all raw vegetables and will happily pull down pea vines and investigate raised beds. I didn't bother this year. Glad to see your fertile pumpkin plants...<br /><br />One of the little nearby towns (New Berlin?) had an Olypmpian and put up a town screen. Rather sweet. Our village had an athlete competing also (actually we had one human in triathlon and also a horse), but evidently we still put the Baseball Hall of Fame first...<br /><br />I am still reading at the mountain--on no. 188 and feeling that this may all come to a happy end. After 316 I shall come visit more often.marly youmanshttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-57435622002357465262012-08-12T02:17:32.639+02:002012-08-12T02:17:32.639+02:00Lucy, your posts are always greeted with pleasure ...Lucy, your posts are always greeted with pleasure as they always feature beautiful photos and useful information, as today on the sex of pumpkin blooms. Curiously, earlier today I was just reading in a year-old Smithsonian magazine about a "sport" in the U.S. of raising monster-size pumpkins. In the most recent contest, the largest weighed in at over 1,600 pounds! That's a lot of pumpkin pies!Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.com