Let’s start with the last item mentioned. And here’s why! This week we have taken out the larger baby plants to “harden off” them outside. But . . . some of them, namely kale, tomato and peppers are now so robust that every time I walk by I hear them screaming! Truly! I’m not kidding!

“Please, please, put me in the ground! My roots are getting way too cramped!”

Okay okay!

Tomorrow morning, Marita and I, and whoever wants to join us, will plant all three. The kale will be fine, but we will cover the tomatoes and peppers with little tunnels just in case it freezes again.

Meanwhile, yesterday evening, out on the patio for the first time this year, another event not on the usual weekly schedule: Tuesday dinner (i.e., not Thursday Community Dinner), for friends of Andreas Iaonnides, here for one week from Ireland, where he is on a faculty in Cork that teaches piano. He will join three others for a concert in Columbus, Indiana, 45 minutes from here, on Saturday. Tuesday was his one free evening.

BTW: Next year, he moves to Dublin, to join the faculty at “The Conservatoire,” he drawls haughtily, winking. And adds, “There’s a direct flight to Dublin, from Indianapolis.” Hmmmm . . .

Dear Andreas lived in Green Acres Permaculture Village, for I think, four years. It’s impossible not to love him. I took his picture out on the patio alone, but it didn’t come out. So all you get is to see him on the far right of this group shot.

Okay. Found this soulful photo he uses as a professional pianist. BTW: while in residence here, getting his doctoral degree in music from Indiana University, he was also reading all of Dostoyevsky’s novels. Are you surprised?

 

 

 

Here’s the upcoming concert, in case you’re in the area. It’s one of the special concerts put on all year long to raise funds for the week-long classical music series set in rural Nashville Indiana that he and Annie Hawk, who also lived here back then, dreamed up during the plandemic. Rather than lapsing into depression and/or fear, they got busy! This August they will hold the third annual week-long Chamber Fest Brown County.

The first two series were so successful that they now have world-class musicians asking to be included.

This morning I was outside watering. And guess what! Tulips! Planted two years ago, just now came up for the first time. 

And, for the second year, this time spreading, trillium! Brought in by the birds originally, and, I presume, spread by what ( Laura Bruno told me) is called “the squirrel relocation program.” Also note the single bluebell, upper right. This is the first time bluebell has appeared.

Okay, okay. Just went back outside to get bluebell’s portrait, by itself . . . Note the trillium leaf poking into the left edge.

So glorious, SPRING.