Body, Mind, Spirit
Water, water, water. Sleep, sleep, sleep. The older I get, the less I am able to screw around with these two. I have had sleep issues since I was a child, and the slightest change in my schedule is my ruin. Last week I was up way too late, slept way too fitfully. I drink water by the gallons, but I only like vinegar water (water mixed with apple cider vinegar or coconut vinegar–but I don’t believe the weight loss hype). I ran out of vinegar and kept forgetting to go to the health food store, so guess which tired fool didn’t drink her water, during a heat wave no less? Hint: the same person who had a mild migraine Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
The best part of taking pictures every day has has been comparing regional plants with other instagrammers. Take the agapanthus, for example. That’s Friday, the fourth picture above. The first time I truly understood the “one man’s trash/treasure” expression was while watching a gardening show as a newlywed. This woman was touring some important garden with a prized agapanthus collection.
Everyone in southern California just dropped to the floor laughing.
Around here, agapanthus are considered cheap filler plants. Builders use them often to landscape new lots. They are nothing special, though I really do love the rare (around here) white ones. You can buy them for less than $5/gallon, and it’s not unusual in my neighborhood to see 20-30 agapanthus plants filling large beds, especially under large trees that are otherwise unfriendly planting grounds. They are hardy and every year we have to dig ours up and divide and split them to avoid Agapanthus Mountain.
Imagine my surprise when Sarah Rae said she sells them in Chicago for $4.50 per stem! Easily! The mind boggles. This, coming from the woman who can say the closest she has ever come to moss is in floral section of Michael’s.
Song of the Week
Kacey Musgraves – Merry Go ‘Round
Ha, there are zillions of those agapanthus plants around my apartment complex (down here in San Diego). Some of them have just started blooming orange!
Is it stalkery to leave a comment so quickly after you posted? I was just awake (at 12:30, oy) and had refreshed my bloglovin reader. That’s all. I am inspired by your walk photos. Mine would be more like 365 photos of my booty on the couch. I ought to take after you and go walking every day.
Orange! I think I’ve only seen those once.
Not stalkery at all! I was awake when you left the comment, so I appreciated it. :) If I had arms as slender as yours, I’d probably do 365 days of booty on the couch, too!
Ha on the agapanthus, otherwise known as the damn agapanthus. I have 2 by my front door that I keep wanting to pull out and replace with dwarf palms. The plants look good when they bloom, which is what? 2-3 months of the year? The rest of the time they’re just bushy and messy with all the yellow stalks at the bottom that need constant pulling. I have a whole bunch in the bed in front of the garage, too. $4.50 a stalk?!
$4.50.
As you know, I suffer from the same–sleep issues, migraine, and depriving my body of what it most needs when it most needs it. Nice thing is that every morning is a chance to do it better.
Heard an interview with Kacey Musgraves on NPR this weekend–loved the song and loved her! What a wise old soul in such a young body. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, today I vowed to do better. I have something in the crockpot now. I’m working on my posts now instead of late tonight, and I’m eating my meals and drinking my water. Fingers crossed on the sleep.
People always think I’m drawn to dark songs and books, but I promise I’m not! It’s just that those are usually the ones with the most shocking honesty. So many lines in that song really struck me as raw and true.
I loved that song for awhile now. “Just like dust we settle in this town”. Slays me every time. How true, in so many areas of our lives.
I am an agapanthus lover, struggling with keeping them going over winter way up in Nova Scotia! I only saw them for the first time a couple of years ago, and fell in love. Obviously I need to come visit California to see them bloom. I am also deeply envious of all your flowers in your walks. The crocuses and snowdrops are just barely starting here, and there was a cold snap of -13 Celsius today (I don’t know, maybe 8 F?). Ugh.
She’s an incredible song writer.
Funny how all things are relative :) I would pretty much give up my first born just to SEE a flower right now. Old man winter is sticking his head out a bit longer than I can handle this year ;)
Jules, I have loved following your 365 journey. If you get a chance to see Kacey Musgraves in concert, go! I caught her show with Little Big Town at our historic theatre here in Birmingham and she blew me away. LBT was stunning with their harmonies but KM was just so unique and real, with no pretense, just beautiful, simple arrangements where her voice was the centerpiece. So when she hits the West Coast, buy a ticket, sister. You won’t be sorry. And keep chronicling your journey. Every single bit of it is a huge inspiration to an almost 40-year-old newly single mom-of-two librarian in The Deep South. The Internet is an astounding thing, no?
Not that I don’t love looking at your sneakers, but I so enjoyed looking at all the flowers. We have had such a long Winter here. Ridicously long with the last of the snow finally melting over the weekend. It just better not snow again. It won’t . Anyway, what I am trying to say is please keep trespassing so that I can continue enjoying. :)