Jesus is speaking: ‘ Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you, not as the world gives you. Don’t let your heart be troubled and don’t let it be afraid.
John 14 : 27 ( Sandy’s understanding)
Stones for good drainage, cool on a hot day and remaining warm at night.
The ice crystals physically rupture cells causing physical damage.
I guess this was dried by the sun and holds little moisture .
The remains of the rose immune from the frost.
The time of the killing frost
It was 1968/69
I was a teen, thirteen.
I woke up to a June/July morning
A mittens and jacket on the bike to school morning.
Then on the return the world had changed
In the strong light of the sun all that was green was changing
A killing frost!
No snow or rime. (rime/granular ice tufts )
The humidity too low and the temperature so low that the plant tissues froze, died and were blackened.
This was my world, our Famona garden and all the gardens on our way home
This is what I saw in the bright midday sun at thirteen.
Sandy 🥶
'It is the life of the crystal,John Burroughs
the architect of the flake,
the fire of the frost,
the soul of the sunbeam.
This crisp winter air is full of it.'
I wonder what your day is like?
Sandy 🙂
We have these stone pots..Great images. Anita
Thank you Anita. The pots have coped with the frost , so I am pleased with them.
I remember that day so very well. The smell of it. Awful. Depressing.
Yes, it was uncanny how black the plants became just like a fire. Sad.
I’ve never heard of a killing frost. Sounds kind of awful! I did rather enjoy the John Burroughs poem.
It was so unexpected and left the gardens changed with a lot of replanting and some people couldn’t mange it. It was a sudden,sad time. Yes, the contrast of J . Burroughs was what I liked.