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Written by Elizabeth Jones
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It's a funny thing, but I rarely smell salty air in Bermuda. I associate that smell with the coasts of Scotland or Maine where the climate is so much colder most of the year. However, the other day when I took a walk along Warwick Long Bay, the air was so salty I could taste it, a crisp stinging tang in my nostrils and on my tongue. Perhaps that was because of the mounds of Sargasso weed scattered along the beach or because the temperature was definitely cooler that day. Look... |
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Written by Elizabeth Jones
| Illustration by: Christine Watlington
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The other morning, struggling with a bad bout of writer’s block, I looked out of a window in my study in search of distraction. Sure enough, I found it, distraction of a cathartic kind. For there was our Allamanda cathartica towering over our stone wall that divides two grassy split levels. Thanks to recent heavy rains, the allamanda leaves were lush and the trumpet flowers a blaze of yellow.
I found the yellow intensely comforting; it made the garden pop—and my ... |
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Written by Elizabeth Jones
| Illustration by: Christine Watlington
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Sometime in the year 2000 we bought a dendrobium at a plant sale in the Botanical Gardens. We were tempted by the long spike of buds slowly unfolding into blossom but perversely also by the realisation we just don’t have the personalities of orchid growers. Orchid growers have slat houses. They spend a lot of time nurturing, potting and repotting their plants and then showing them at various orchid competitions. We knew it was unlikely we’d do any of those things—ou... |
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Written by Elizabeth Jones
| Illustration by: Christine Watlington
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One morning as I was driving toward the Belmont Ferry on Harbour Road, I noticed a woody stem appearing inches above the wall on the waterside. A few days later it had shot up so fast I thought it could be a great illustration for Jack and the Beanstalk. Soon, two shorter companions appeared beside it, changing the visual effect and giving the illusion of a sailing ship with only three masts in view. Later, the masts developed budding branches, the ideal subject for doodl... |
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