style notes from all over

It is my impression that the empire waist is meant to lie below the bustline. Therefore, should you find yourself wearing an empire-waisted garment, and find that the line lies across or above your bust, please choose either a larger size or another style. Thank you.

Also, I think the madras patchwork plaid shorts PLUS a polo, collar up, with a whale on it, is perhaps working the preppy revival a bit too hard, don't you?

garden dreams

Spring White Flower Farm catalog came last night. I am thinking of getting:

"Dawn and Dusk" which is a dark purple single clematic (Etoile Violette) and a pale pink climbing rose (New Dawn). For the post of my carport that gets sun.

Something to put in the hole between the butterfly bush and the scraggly azalea. Possibly a Rudbeckia (but the one I like best, Toto, is an annual), Echinacea (but I sort of want yellow not purple; I know they have orange but they look freaky to me), Asclepias.

A lily of some kind. Where to put it I don't know.

Then we sort of roll into "everything else in the catalog."

For vegetables I have Johnny's and Seeds of Change. Drooling over things I do not have the time, equipment, space, need for many plants, or diligence to start from seed, like tomatoes. Makes much more sense to buy a seedling from the farmer's market. But. Want.