I shift my attention to wisteria leaves.

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Most of the day I’ve been in a melancholy mood, except for the hour or so I was outside helping Alejandro pull the remaining leaves off the plum trees. We did this in preparation for applying the first dormant spray of the season, and I do love being in the garden, just soaking up the fresh smells and dampness. In the middle of the day, that is, when the chill doesn’t go straight to the bones.

I spent hours and hours out there this week, planting bulbs and annuals too late, and getting a little weary of the cold sogginess. But every time I would look up from the ground, there was the sky, and the varied colors of leaves drifting down from my crape myrtle, or the neighbor’s liquidamber. The whole thing overwhelms me with the beauty and sadness of the earth.

And today, it was the wisteria in my own garden that lifted my head and heart — it is a richer, deeper, brighter yellow-gold than I’ve ever noticed before. Truly, if cameras had never been invented, I would have had to learn to paint long ago.

Happy December, my Dear Readers all!

10 thoughts on “I shift my attention to wisteria leaves.”

  2. I had no idea wisteria could turn such a luscious gold. It truly is beautiful, and so nicely complemented by the magenta cyclamen. I’ve not yet seen those being planted; they’re often used here as winter bedding plants, like pansies and begonias.

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    1. When my daughter saw the picture of the wisteria, she also said she didn’t remember it ever being so bright before.

      I bought two cyclamens this week to plant beneath my big pine tree, where several others are able to live perennially among the roots, and surprise me every fall when the leaves emerge again. Those had been gifts for Valentine’s Day or the like, and I transplanted them one by one in the shade there. Yesterday I dug a hole for the smaller of my purchases in that area and stuck it in, but the other one I’m afraid might be difficult to find room for, the pine roots take up so much space, so I put off the project and for now I will just enjoy looking at it out my kitchen window while I wash dishes.

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  3. Gardening – or cooking – help me keep melanchonic thoughts at bay. The colour of the wisteria leaves you show are enough to banish all dark thoughts, even if for a while! I wish you a fulfilling December: mine is going to be unusually blessed for I am seeing all three of my children in stages throughout the month 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  7. I had no idea wisteria leaves turned colors like that, but so happy they’ve gladdened your heart a little. At the local arboretum, they’ve got several wisterias growing over a large arbor (their event site says it can seat 150) but I’ve only seen it in bloom and bare branches.

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