Coal Dust and Coffee Powder

Poetry, art, books, photography. Plant blog. A little Dark, and little obsessed

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Animals

- Frank O Hara

Have you forgotten what we were like then

when we were still first rate

and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth

it’s no use worrying about Time

but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves

and turned some sharp corners

the whole pasture looked like our meal

we didn’t need speedometers

we could manage cocktails out of ice and water

I wouldn’t want to be faster

or greener than now if you were with me O you

were the best of all my days

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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde

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I would pay good money for Rick Riordan to have Poisedon make just one Spongebob Squarepants reference

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"I crave time by myself to sit and heal my heart before I step out into the world again."

-Gemman Troy

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"I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee." -Lisa Renee Jones

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"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T.S. Eliot

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"These violent delights have violent ends

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so." - William Shakespeare

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"How frail the human heart must be— a throbbing pulse, a trembling thing— a fragile, shining instrument of crystal, which can either weep, or sing." - Sylvia Plath

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“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.” - Vincent Van Gogh

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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh

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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh

This is my new bonsai!

Her name's Lagertha

She's 10cm tall and 6 years old, and she's a blue thorn acacia (acacia erubescens). Her naturally grown counterparts are 10m and taller

You can see her teeny tiny thorns and beautiful foliage. Her leaves also close up at night and unfurl when the sun rises

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"The Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "For flowers have been known to heal a common man’s despair." -Oscar Wilde, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’

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"We’re so distracted by how things end, we usually forget how beautiful the beginning was." -Lamiya Waheed

Went on a trip to a nursery today

Please enjoy these extreme up close pictures of pretty leaves

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"The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it … some stories just don’t have a happy ending." -Jodi Picoult, Leaving Time

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"Then suddenly you’re left all alone with your body that can’t love you and your will that can’t save you." -Rainer Maria Rilke

Behold my forest of snake plants! These are just four of over a dozen hiding around the house, but this is the little family of four chilling together

Snake plants, also known as mother in law's tongue, are really low maintenance. They only need to be watered every 4 to 6 weeks, and they just need to be left alone in light. They also apparently propagate easily (although I'm yet to try propagating)

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“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.” - Vincent Van Gogh

This is my table of succulents! It's been about a year in the making and includes decorative holders, a terrarium, hydroponics, and two arranged gardens. Here's also close ups of my arranged succulent gardens. One is little and has a couple Hawthornias and a jade plant. The larger one is a bit older and I'm waiting for the succulents to grow bigger and spread. The Aloe is thriving at least.

The next couple pictures are of my hydroponic succulents. The little leaves are growing their own little plants which I'm excited about!

The only succulents I bought in the whole lot of them are the Aloe in the big concrete holder, the terrarium and the bear/ cat/ dog pot plant (the last two were birthday gifts). Everything else is props from the garden outside.

The glass holders (except the terrarium) are recycled holders of different sauces and coffee granules, and the pots are recycled from nursery pot plants once they grew out of them.

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