Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Lets do an all photo/video TToT. If properly done, each will need no introduction or explanation.
Lets know that all depicted above (and below), inspire, incite or otherwise encourage the state of gratitude. And, being the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop, that’s kind of our thing here. The basic starter Item: Josie Two Shoes for hosting this here bloghop here each, and every week. Not an easy, simple task. We are grateful.
Rabbit and Lawn. A rabbit in mid-step, showing the length of its body as it steps forwards on its front paws. The green of the lawn is made up of a mix of vertical blades of grass and flat, petals of clover-like weeds. The clover shows as a light green (reflecting more light, of course), the grass in-between a darker shade. The rabbit is mostly a light brown. The variations in color: a dark, rather large eye (we’re seeing it in profile) that is ringed with a lighter, almost white fur. The back is brown with light spots, the tail, contrary to what the adults swore was an accurate description in their bedtime stores, is neither fluffy nor very white. (In their defense, you can see a slight edge of white on the back part of the rounded protrusion of the rabbit’s tail. I supposed we can permit the adults a certain poetic license with their description)
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A cairn and a ‘U’ Here we see the capital ‘U’ of the garden, an un-smooth brown against the mottled green of the weedy lawn. To the top left of the ‘U’ is a pile of rocks, looking decidedly deliberate. These are the stones dug from the ground as part of the ‘soil reclamation’ process. (As Thoreau wrote, “what stony earth, our mother natures bosom conceals, life must be bought with toil and hope.’ from the Aching Back Chronicles 1859)
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Dog Leaping towards Deck. To the left center we see Una in mid-leap as she transitions from the lawn to the deck in the backyard. The top half of the photo is green (the same mix of clover-looking green things and regular grass), the lower half is the deck which is a beige-brown (at the risk of redundancy) Though you have to look close, you can see that Una has her front paws off the ground. Her coloring is mostly black, her fore legs are a sable-brown and your can see they are bent (looking kinda narrow ovals) and you just make out the light brow eyebrows as she focuses on her landing. This coloring accounts for the number of times Phyllis or I will stand in the living room and ask where the dog is, while she sits on the couch, eyes barely open, laughing at the un-perceptive humans.
4)garden planted
5) garden labeled
6) Una, the Dog of Plant Destiny cruises the garden
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8) the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers), of course.
9)Ok… I tried to do a video yesterday of the road to Weekapaug, but all you would see would be the door pillar and some bushes. I’ll go out on a limb and decided, even with how cool the Wakefield Doctrine is, 3 minutes of me talking and (you) staring at the passenger-side visor in my car would not be as enjoyable as this video from way, long ago.
10) SR 1.3
(uh…go ahead and click on the pitcha, it’ll take ya to the party)
About clarkscottroger
Happy Weekend Clark! I love your photos and their accompanying descriptions, and I love your videos even more! Living in the land of Texan and Hispanic accents, it’s fun to hear something different, and taking these little road trips with you while you talk to us is a pleasure!
I see that that the Una garden is ready and waiting and she seems to be saying “Let’s get something planted here!” I’m guessing you have plantings at the ready, waiting for planting weather. I enjoyed that rabbit too! We have cottontail rabbits here too, though the white tails are a bit more predominant. Since we’ve been blessed with adequate rain for vegetation growth at the moment, the rabbits are plentiful in our yard, and well filled out. I always feel for them and the coyotes up the food chain, when the pickings are sparse and they are hungry. Is the rock cairn resulting from your garden project going to remain or is it a temporary resting place for rocks? I think they are so beautiful neatly stacked and balanced!
Una in motion as she leaps to the desk… and leaps off he table (lol) is a thing of beauty. I presently have the company of four cats on the table as I write, they take great interest in listening to your video too, and Gracie tries to find you behind my tablet screen. :-)
Such a pretty walk up from your mailbox, I’d like to borrow that lush scenery for ours. The drive down to the sound was equally lovely, and agree with you about a sense of direction. My older sister, who is strongly Rogerian has no sense of direction at all. She refers to it as directional dyslexia, I refer to it as the inability to use a GPS. ;-)
I hope you, Phyllis an Una are enjoying the longer weekend, just as we are. Here it has already reached 100 degrees twice this week, and summer begins ahead of schedule. Thank you for being such a faithful TToT participant and for always bringing something fun to the table to be thankful for! <3
funny about the difference (relationship) makes… the garden is fun, but Una we love… so, while we hope that she doesn’t decide we want her to bring us all the new plants or rearrange the order of things, our reaction to her jumping into the garden was to laugh… (part of what makes dogs perfect lifeforms is that lack of meanness or the desire to make another feel bad)… she did it because she’s a dog.
it always comes down to perspective, and, as we say at the Doctrine, ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us, no?
I have never heard a rabbit described like that. Well done. Hope you’re enjoying your long weekend. Ours was last week.
thanks… (and thank you for the encouragement, the challenge of ‘what is this picture showing’ is way more daunting and yet, the effort gives back more than I put it.)
Yes! We do have an innate sense of direction. Mine was totally challenged when living in Florida. When work required, we would travel to and about Orlando. Totally f’d me up. The one geographic location that scrambled my brain lol
Ah, Weekapaug…lovely little spot :)
surely a ancillary effect of being an Outsider… we’re used to the perspective of ‘apart’
Those videos were entertaining. I totally thought Una was GOING to get the newspaper herself. lol. But still…it’s fun to see the two of them walking down the road.
And the garden? It’s seriously awesome, but Una KNOWS that garden is hers.
I’m glad for being a clark, too. Sense of direction. You know, when I’m actually paying attention, I know my direction. And I don’t like the feeling of not knowing where I am. At all. So..is it the dislike “lack” of knowing where they are that compels clarks to always want to know? Or is it that we’re born with an excellent, innate sense of direction that, no matter where we are in the universe, if we concentrate, we’ll know where we are relative to everything else?
And so cool that you live right by the ocean. We’re headed that way the first week of July (after the 4th). Still finalizing details – have many to work out but VERY MUCH looking forward to it. :)
funny about how traditions develop… phyllis and Bella (before Una) used to include the walk up the driveway to get the paper as part of their morning routine.
Funny you should say that about ‘wanting to know’… it is a statement of the core of all clarks and it also is an illustration of the power of not needing… we don’t need to prove we know where we are (geographically) because we simply do…. we do need to know what we are because we know we are not what everyone else is… real people.
As always a good Post comment… will have to include it in tomorrow’s Post… want to get back to doing at least on ‘Doctrine post’ each week.
We’re 2 minutes off Exit 2 on Rt 95 north… we’ll be here, if your plan allows for a stop/rest/keep-moving-on
I’m so impressed with the garden! When you first started posting photos of it, I didn’t realize the size of it. Having Una in the photo really lends scale. As for your weed garden, at least it is green! My oldest daughter asked me years ago, “Mommy, why did God have to put dandelion flowers on weeds?” What gets called a weed and what is thought of as beautiful is all relative, I guess.
funny about our ‘weed garden’… hard to see in the photo, but it is/was a place where the rain runoff from the driveway would collect and, as such, was never intended as a lawn, a gulch, if we were a couple of thousand miles to the West. Over time, seeds and such ended up establishing themselves…. I think the primary ones are a form of wild grass… the clumpy tufts… and, I agree with your insight, weeds are simply plants that didn’t make it to commonly approved of list of attractive vegetations… being a clark, I am not at all surprised that we cut back the ‘lawn grass’ (that moves into this area and obscures the presentation of the clumps and tufts) and let nature decide what gets to grow in this area
Your life looks pleasant. I would so love to be a passenger on the road trip in #9, and if at all possible, I would like to be riding in the car from #7!
I would agree with your first statement (were I not a clark)
lol
the ocean is excellent and Phyllis does enjoy the Mini
Hi. Stopping by for a look-see at your photos. Love the garden. The little arch fencing strikes my fancy.
Is Una responsible for “watering” and “fertilizing” the garden?
no, we are a close-knit pack. …we take turns.
Your post of photos and videos was just right. It will be interesting to follow the growth of your Una garden throughout the season. At last, according to your #9, I know that I am a Clark, according to your statement that Clarks have an innate sense of direction.
cool
the garden grows… we watch Una (and Una watches us)