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  • Corydalis lutea

    Oh, I so love this shade-loving perennial. I took this picture this morning and even in the depth of January, corydalis has one brave yellow blossom. In the summer it’s just covered with them. I don’t know why the deer have let it alone. They frequently go after a white-blossomed corydalis not three feet away from this one. I’ve heard th

    at corydalis doesn’t do well in pots, and it’s true that late in autumn, this gets a bit

    ratty. You have to cut it way back and then it comes on beautifully again. Its one of those freely self-sowing kind of perennials.

    one little bloom even in January

  • So darn daily

    I think Annie Dillard is speaking about the discipline of writing here, and perhaps about perseverance and yet she never says either word.

    “A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. … You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room.”

    from “The Writing Life,” 1989 hardcover edition, page 52

  • A favorite columnist, Robert Kirby, wrestles technology

    Love his description of his Sanpete County nanna.

    Kirby: This troglodyte can keep pace with technology | The Salt Lake Tribune.