Category Archives: gardens

Trapped

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Trapped?

Are you trapped?

If she looked upon the horror her husband had become… she would scream for the rest of her life!

From the 1958 teleportation movie The Fly… sci-fi/horror featuring Vincent Price in his prime: trailer @ https://youtu.be/mgDypzKO5co?feature=shared

The white-headed house fly cried out “Help! Help me! Please help me! Help me!”

Do you ever feel so… trapped?

In a web?

You will always find a way out.

You will always discover hope and beauty.

Even CJ did in Tangier Gardens. Try it yourself @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv

Correct?

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CORRECT!!

If seeing is believing, what is reading?

Urban fantasy? No, landscape fantasy. Fun!

Now please check-out my Kundry Firdaws story: Landscape Libretti. I need the clicks today. Give me a couple likes. It’s a competition. Ten minutes and you’re through. Bob’s your uncle. Costs you nothing.

Link to Landscape Libretti vella @ https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0DB2DB3JK

Oooops

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Just one of those days.

Nothing quite right.

Maybe tomorrow.

The flower beckoned but I could not capture the invitation.

And CJ, too, in his design study, almost got it right, but not quite, in Tangier Gardens.

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April Showers May Flowers

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We had April showers and we found May flowers. Modest pleasures. But roses are so much more.

CJ was not so fortunate, but he did find transcendent pleasures in Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel–lots of plants, gardens and landscape adventures–via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv.

Blues?

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In Tangier Gardens, CJ thought he had the blues until he discovered Heinies, an independent–Tangier mid-twentieth century leftover, a dark basement dive, a friends-only speak-easy serving Austrian draft beer and whiskey, sporting an image of St. Augustine of Hippo behind the bar. While enjoying a shot and a beer, he heard Heinies favorite artist, Janis Joplin singing “Ball and Chain”. The blues. The real blues.

Read a free Amazon sample of my novel–lots of plants, gardens and landscape adventures–via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv.

Inspiration

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I like to look at plants. Plants inspire me. I get ideas. Today I saw an idea trying to emerge. That was all.

How does an idea emerge? How does it inspire?

Questions like these, inspired by my observations of plants, drove me to write Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel–lots of plants, gardens and landscape adventures–via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv. Find fresh inspiration. Buy Tangier Gardens today.

Are we safe yet?

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Uncertainty in the landscape?
Pulsatilla montana–Pasque flower

This week on the first day of Spring I found these. Could there not be a more peaceful yet refreshing image of the coming of Spring?

But it is still March and with snow in the forecast, the March lion may yet be released.

Uncertainty in the landscape? For sure. 

That’s what CJ found in Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv

The First Grapes

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Grape hyacinth: Muscari armeniacum

In the temperate climates of the northern hemisphere, grapes come early—but not that early. They are a sure sign that the lion of March is gone and spring is definitely here. These grapes come March and April.

But in the northern hemisphere, if you are not in a temperate climate, your seasonal clock may be in for a shock as was CJ in the Mediterranean climate of northern Morocco. He tries to come to grips with these shocks in my novel Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv

Undeniable Change

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Weather changes.

Climate changes.

Season changes.

Undeniable.

What is change?
Winter changes to spring. And spring is here. Undeniable.

But does human culture change? And if so, how and why? CJ was forced to ask these questions in my novel Tangier Gardens, buy it now @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv

Sneaking Up

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What’s that sneaking up on you?

When spring sneaks up—that’s good, it’s beautiful!

Sneaking up on CJ? He thought he knew what to expect—he had been in Morocco once before. But not in Tangier. Find out what snuck up on CJ in Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv