wet rose leaves
Well, well. It is June here in Zurich and it is raining. Quite normal for the season. Zurich is situated in the moderate temperature and unfortunately wet zones with lots of water falling down out of grey skies keeping our gardens green and our snails happy.
I am pouring Lonestar Memories today…and will mix some orange flowers later, dreaming of dry lands.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:08 am
It’s still very warm in Prague but sunday I will fly to Amsterdam, so I guess that I will be joining you in the wet weather then.
June 5th, 2008 at 9:47 am
We warmly, but too all the night long had rain and humidity today very high, so dry lands - it not in Siberia.
Dear Andy, what concurrence… I today pour Lonestar Memories, only from a bottle:-)
June 5th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Happy snails are my friends !
[Wet roseleaves, too]
I would love to be in the Lonestar pouring room, SIGH.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:15 am
You are always welcome, Marianne, to join us in the rain ;-)
Dear Vladimir
So, we both sniff Lonestar and dream of dry lands, I guess.
Dear Chayaruchama
I’ll bet you would hate the Zurich garden snails when you would see the disaster they produce among basil plants…. what was basil in the morning ends up in nothingness by afternoon ;-)
June 5th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Well - same in Netherlands - rain, rain, rain. Well - actually I like rain when the air is saturated with wetness and the rainy smells coming from the trees and soil. But I don’t like to get wet ;-) After the rain you can always make those nice pictures like one you’ve placed here - I can almost smell it - some oakmoss in the base and may be a drop of vetiver and cedar, a nice lavender hart and defenitely a drop of sage in it, some greennes and may be bergamot in the top ;-) Not sure if can put some jasmine and vanille there or rosemary and eucalyptus (or mentol). Very inspiring picture.
Snails - a disaster - I have problems with snails even on my balcony. I have heard a tip about snails on Sunday. Someone was to use Kaffeesatz (coffee grounds) to put around the plants. You can also use cacao shells. They seem to be too sharp for the fragile skin of the snails. It will not solve the problem entirely, but the most of snails will turn back after they reach the coffee grounds. Haven’t tried yet, but I do trust this one.
June 5th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Here I am in the drylands where cowboy films are (were) made. No rain in sight for us. Mountains are turning from green to yellow ochre. I recently saw some shots of Zurich and longed for the history and beauty of
Europe. Nothing like “Greener Pastures”!
June 5th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
AromaX I love the way The Netherlands smell. There is mostly a seebreeze or just plain wind and after a rainfall the gardens smell so wonderful.
Each time when I walk outside at Schiphol Airport I enjoy that particular Netherlands smell mixed with a bit of kerosene :-D
Why don’t you make a virtue out of a plague and eat those snails?
June 5th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Thank you Marianne for sharing of your nice imrpessions on Netherlands. Indeed it smells nice after the rain here. May be because every Dutch has a \”garden\” - even if it\’s just a half of square meter of tiled piece of pavement for the door - they put some pots with plants on it and it becomes a \”garden\” ;-)
Are you from Chechie and coming to Amsterdam soon? Well - you can message me and who knows - we may meet and have some olfactory experiences at the local perfumeries (or are you in the mood for coffee shops) ?
Eating snails… hmmm… I shall think about it for the next five years ;-) Well - I am trying to make it clear for the snails and explain them, that they should respect the fact I don\’t eat snails and that they should not eat my tomato plant in return. Still doubting if snails are yet in position for democratic negotiations.
Andy, I hope you don’t mind if we use your blog as a meeting place?
June 5th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Dear Marianne
These are ugly , disgusting snails, naked snails that you hardly touch, and for sure you do not eat!
Dear Roxana
I imagine you looking out into the going-to be-burnt landscape and dream of green pastures. And I sit here and I am looking out into wet lands and dream of warmth and golden sun over golden hills ;-)
June 5th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Dear Aromax
Please meet and gather and discuss…. I am going to bed, though ;-)
Enjoy
Andy off
June 6th, 2008 at 8:08 am
i pass you salt for your snails. snails are one of those oddities of nature that make me wonder if any deity could be considered beneficent! However, I love rain with a passion - and not only because it makes me look pretty, but because I think the world smells better when it is newly wet. :)
June 6th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Dear Risa
Now I have to tell the truth. I am a wimpy wimp. And usually I can /do not really harm the snails. I pick them up and through them into the bushes. Well, not really effective, I know. But I hope for hedgehogs around the corner;-)
June 6th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Andy, AromaX, I don’t eat snails…could not bring to myself to cook those slow gentle(?) creatures, let alone live on them. Was just trying to think of a ‘nature-friendly’ way to make them dissapear.
And you are so gentle Andy - just wonder is your neighbour just as kindminded as you and does he therefore put all his snails in your garden ;-))
AromaX, I am from The Netherlands but most of my life I live elsewhere, like in the Czech Rep. at the moment (not Chechnya!) and Canada before that and Morocco, Ecuador and Lisbon and so on and many of my good years in The Netherlands of course.
I like the coffeeshops where they sell good cappuccino’s. I’m just not that much into those other coffeeshops with their Dutch Delights :)
But thank you Aromax and who knows that we will meet someday.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Well - nice to meet another Dutch fan (right word?) of Andy here, Marianne. What ciry are you staying/living in? Let me know if you like to meet in Amsterdam. You can find me via my blog (just click on the name) or as a member of basenotes or MUA under the same name.
Eating snails was your idea in the first place ;-)
It’s such a nice weather here now - enjoy ;-)