Green Man Garden Salon

Author: manofgreen

  • Otter Space Band Returns

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    With grand excitement, on Friday, August 8, 2025, Linda and Howie (LinaZow) welcomed back to our Garden Salon Austin’s Otter Space Band as it concluded its Earth, Music, and Otter Space Tour of Arizona and New Mexico. The occasion marked the second time in just over a year that these environmental troubadours brought their consciousness-raising lyrics…

  • Jungle Junket West

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    First time in Land of Enchantment: Green Man Joined a Jungle Junket Southwest New Mexico isn’t the only place that enjoys a monsoon. Our wind shift brings rain in July and August. In the tropics, wet weather typically lasts a couple months longer. On Friday, 07-11, 7:09p, our guests journeyed to a wilderness lush with…

  • Green Man Rode the Wind

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    Every season associates with one of the four elements: summer = fire, autumn = Earth, winter = water. Spring, along with freshness and rebirth, matches elemental air. For purposes of celebration, air includes wind, breath, and sky. Along with light potluck food and drink, we invited our guests to bring a favored breezy poem or…

  • Green Man Celebrated Summer and Sun

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    Happened One SaturnDay . . . Green Man requested friends’ presence on June 29, 2024, at 7:09 p.m. to celebrate summer and sun. We heard tunes of the season and provided space for poems, prose, or songs. Always a potluck, guests brought anything tasty to nosh or sip. And they told their friends! It rained,…

  • Green Man Revels R Burns

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    We invited our buds to a Rabbie Burns Birthday Celebration. They joined us (Linda and Howie, aka LinaZow) for an evening of Scottish tradition, literature, and good cheer as we honored the life and works of the legendary poet. It was an unforgivable night filled with music, veggie haggis, and the spirit of Scotland. SaturNight,…

  • Green Man Talked Backward to Venus

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    A celestial phenomenon and word play informed this celebration. On Fri (Viernes), 01-10-25, the planet Venus achieved her greatest eastern elongation. That meant she bedazzled farthest from the Sun as the Evening Star before heading back toward the west. Since the date read the same forward as backward, we also reveled in palindromes: Guests brought…

  • Green Man Celebrates Cecilia

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    With feast and frolic we foisted our fab songs and poems during this conviviality. Cecilia, patroness of musicians and poets, claims Fri, 11-22, as her day—an ideal opportunity to gather for tunes and rhymes and fitting foolery. Potluck began at 7:09p in our cozy enclosure on Chihuahua Hill.

  • V for Vendetta

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    Remember, remember the fifth of NovemberThe gunpowder treason and plotI can see no reason why the gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot. November 5 is Guy Fawkes Night in England, commemorating the date in 1605 when an anarchist by that name attempted to blow up Parliament. Fast-forward to 2006, when DC Comics and Warner Brothers released…

  • Green Man Defied Death

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    All dressed up dead and nowhere to go after Silver City’s Dia de los Muertos celebration? We invited neighbors to head on up that Saturday, November 2, to our cozy Chihuahua Hill enclosure to continue the marigold merriment. Several shared an eerie ditty or raucous rhyme.  Macabre melodies set the tone, and potluck delights kept…

  • Green Man Depicted Decameron

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    Saturday, October 19, from 3:30 until 6p, occurred an anecdote afternoon in the Garden Salon. Completed in 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron contains 100 stories told by seven young women and three young men who holed up in a secluded Florentine villa to avoid the Black Plague. The tales of love run from erotic and funny…