spill

today was housecleaning day. possibly the greatest thing my husband ever gave me, after our children, was a biweekly cleaning service that he arranged for christmas several years ago and has maintained ever since. but in a house where sheaves of stems, piles of stones, scatterings of leaves, stacks of nests, and grids of eggs always accumulate on the floor between this Thursday and the Thursday after next, i sometimes feel i do more work clearing still blog props than beloved Gayle and Denise do sweeping those same floors. it got me thinking about spills, and what spilling means in nature, where fruits and seeds and pods and leaves spill all the time onto the ground, and make the ground fertile and fruitful. this blog owes a lot to spillage. maybe i should have called it spill blog.

milkweed in november

white bear lake, saint paul, minnesota

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