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lblanchardI've observed my first visible shoot today -- not sure whether it's an embryonic leaf or an incipient rootlet. Several other seeds are pushing up from where I planted them, so I'm expecting to see more shoots very soon.
This is twelve days after sowing. I've sown 64 seeds -- eight rows of eight seeds each. I won't mind if I have a lower germination rate than last time.
One of my metaphors for living the life of privilege is "I want to play Chopin and arrange peonies in a glass bowl." This year's peony crop wasn't big enough for that kind of arranging, but it *was* big enough for me to cut one and put it in a glass vase, which I set next to the music stand while I worked on Chopin Prelude #15 in Db -- known popularly as "Raindrop." It's stillkind of extremely stumbling and ragged, but there are a couple of fortissimo passages involving massive octaves and/or chords in both hands that are awfully satisfying. (The dainty bits are nice, too.) [Here it is done properly. One of the fortissimo bits I find so satisfying is around 2:15.]
This is twelve days after sowing. I've sown 64 seeds -- eight rows of eight seeds each. I won't mind if I have a lower germination rate than last time.
One of my metaphors for living the life of privilege is "I want to play Chopin and arrange peonies in a glass bowl." This year's peony crop wasn't big enough for that kind of arranging, but it *was* big enough for me to cut one and put it in a glass vase, which I set next to the music stand while I worked on Chopin Prelude #15 in Db -- known popularly as "Raindrop." It's still
