My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made
while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.
[H. Fred Ale]
If there was an SPCA for house plants, they would come and collect mine. This slightly blurry photo is my effort to stave off a visit if such an organization exists. Just when I thought my violet was on its last stems, it rallied and started to bloom. I am amazed. It must be very hardy.
Like most people, there are things I do well, and there are things I don’t do well. My cooking can be described as merely adequate. Although I admire beautiful yards and gardens, my efforts only produce results that keep the city from giving me a weed citation. If anyone ever heard me sing, they would pay me not to. However my hardy little violet gives me hope so I planted my window boxes with flowers and bought a new cookbook. I think I’ll keep on singing only in my heart.
Knitting, writing and other joys 
i don’t see a link for email, and you though post were too moving to clutter up with this non comment.
Lisa Grossman (author and knitter, (but not knitting author!) looked at my copy of A Gathering of Lace, and re-invented the knit (lace) hat.
thought you might want to see what you inspired.
http://www.tsocktsarina.com/blog/
(current post (as of noon, today, 5/31) i am thinking about (mentally knitting first, before i take needles) a hat of my own.. (with a bigger brim, but basicly the same)
Oh that’s a beautiful one!! I used to kill them too. Then, I started just “ignoring” them, instead of killing them with kindness. I let them get pretty dried out now between waterings, and when they do get water, I water them from the bottom by putting the pot in a sink filled just enough to run into the reservoir of the flower pot with lukewarm water. I let them sit and enjoy the humidity for a while, then take them out and ignore them for a while again. They bloom all year round.