Baby basils!
Feb. 2nd, 2012 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primsongMy basil seeds are sprouting and all the wee little bitty basils (basilettes?) are sooo cute and tiny! I love how they push up the little bits of dirt so some come up wearing them like tiny brown hats. Welcome to the world, basil, you are very jaunty for babies with leaves hardly bigger than sesame seeds.
The miniature ivy I have nearby is LOVING the plant light I have on the basil trays, it's growing almost visibly in its desperation and desire for the light, twining around the top of it like a shameless lady drooping over her gent at a party. Tsk! No shame, ivy, no shame. Take a page from the shamrock beside you and show a bit of restraint!
In other news, I'm very happily reading Tennyson's Idylls of the King and enjoying it ever so much. I've had a copy for a while, but hadn't taken the time to read anything but the collection of shorter poems the publisher used for filler at the back of the book as there were some old favorites there. The long ballads that make up Idylls are all retellings of various parts of the Arthurian legends and its wonderful stuff.
The miniature ivy I have nearby is LOVING the plant light I have on the basil trays, it's growing almost visibly in its desperation and desire for the light, twining around the top of it like a shameless lady drooping over her gent at a party. Tsk! No shame, ivy, no shame. Take a page from the shamrock beside you and show a bit of restraint!
In other news, I'm very happily reading Tennyson's Idylls of the King and enjoying it ever so much. I've had a copy for a while, but hadn't taken the time to read anything but the collection of shorter poems the publisher used for filler at the back of the book as there were some old favorites there. The long ballads that make up Idylls are all retellings of various parts of the Arthurian legends and its wonderful stuff.
