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I am a Leo, after all. Observing New Moon in Leo August is great for SUNFLOWERS. And this year, the weather turned mid-month, maybe not for keeps, but wowwww is it nice to wake up to 60 degrees in the morning. (In all fairness, I sometimes wake up at 5 a.m.) This autumn preview is… Continue reading Let me say something nice about August.
August is hot and unrelenting; it's also the month I must work outdoors. My whole month is consumed by County Fair: prep, its running, its dramas, take down, and recovery. It's been over almost a week but I haven't even begun to recover. The week before Fair, a dangerous windstorm blew a large recycling can… Continue reading In late summer, I burn out.
We had the big family reception at our house, and it was beautiful and crazy and overwhelming and perfect. I don't know if I'm going to post pictures of so many people's faces here because again, I don't know if I can trust Google like that. But for now, here's what June was like, slightly… Continue reading Every hydrangea season, I become a mystic.
*Well, bright until the wildfire smoke came. Most of what I've been up to in the last three weeks falls into one of these categories: Things I Make You If You Are Married To Me: Yummy Things I Ate: CRAZY GETTING HOUSE READY FOR BIG PARTY: Beach season is upon us! Oh yeah. I survived… Continue reading Three Weeks of Bright* Days
Recently I read that June, the month named for the ancient Greek goddess Juno (well, the Romanized name for Hera), was the month for weddings in the ancient Hellenistic world and much of the Global North / European cultures it influenced. To this day, June is still the most popular month to get married in… Continue reading In Honor of Juno
Laura Eppinger 