Tag Archives: Gardening

The Paving Stones of Good Intentions

Posted on 29 April 2023 by Isabel Gibson

Gardening follies. Continue reading →

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Spared

Posted on 31 October 2021 by Isabel Gibson

Stay tuned. And if you see a squirrel, yell at it. Continue reading →

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Anonymous, Eponymous, Eunonymous

Posted on 25 October 2015 by Isabel Gibson

Who thought up this plant, anyhow? In fact, who thought up any of them? Continue reading →

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Snip Snip

Posted on 22 June 2014 by Isabel Gibson

Pruning trees – the activity, the judgement required, the variables – is a metaphor for deciding where to put my own life energies: which branches to keep, and which will never amount to anything.   This one will never come … Continue reading →

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You in Your Small Corner…

Posted on 02 June 2013 by Isabel Gibson

Driving over the bridge across the canal, I enter the stretch of this artery that is — to my Western Canadian sensibilities — just a few feet too narrow for four lanes of traffic zooming to and from the downtown. … Continue reading →

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Ouch and Double Ouch

Posted on 02 September 2012 by Isabel Gibson

I feel the burn instantaneously. The merest touch, no more than a glancing blow, scalds left forearm and leg. I don’t see my life pass before my eyes, exactly, but it’s a close thing. My attacker has been lying in … Continue reading →

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Let Loose the Tweezers of War

Posted on 10 July 2011 by Isabel Gibson

It’s war. Oh yes, I know all about the mixed records of our ongoing, all-out shooting wars and police actions: the War on Terror, the War on Drugs (notably not a War on Addictions), the Wars on Oceanic and Online … Continue reading →

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Specialization is for Insects

Posted on 22 May 2011 by Isabel Gibson

Balancing potted shrub on right hip, I walk carefully along the rock wall dividing our property from a lightly wooded and heavily weed-infested area. Returning to the driveway, I repeat my trek six times. All shrubs present and accounted for, … Continue reading →

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