Yesterday, my sister and I took Wolfie out for a walk. You see amazing tiny beauties when you are forced to walk along looking down at your feet- to keep from tripping over the dog for one. You could think of them as a program, run by Nature, to make you happier. It would be a program to de-stress life and make it easier to breathe.
I always come back from walking the short blocks in a better mood. I think that's what little kids do for people, too. They make us slow down and look down at their little flower faces when they ask questions, or find something interesting in the grass.
My mother taught my daughters to look down and really SEE what is there at their feet, because she was always looking for bugs, first to keep them off of her food plants, and then just as an interesting tiny life that went about it's business with a perfect program established for it by a Hand much wiser and all seeing than a gardener's hand.
In fact, gardeners-farmers- have tried for centuries to interrupt or to interfere in this perfect balance, in order to bring in a crop of perfect fruits and vegetables. But, the bigger their farms got, they began to forget the balance that had sustained their lives. If you kill the insects that want to harm the perfection of the fruits, you kill off the beneficial ones who silently make possible the plethora of edibles that surrounds us. The total fertility of the Earth is vast, but it is not Infinite.
Knitting report:
I'm back to knitting the Yukon Leaves socks and just bought some of that Turkish sock yarn from Elann. They might have some of it left, but I'm not going to look. hehe I've learned not to buy a huge amount of any new yarn.
The Political report: Meh!
The Weather Report: Meh! No, really, it's been very cool here, with highs of 68 degrees so far inland that it boggles the mind and makes me think of Climate Change, and to wonder whether or not this all means that California will be getting seasons again.
The Animal Report: This is a fascinating article on how the world's Veterinary Heroes overcame an ancient scourge of cloven hooved mammals. Thank you DH.
Rinderpest is no more. The Article is from the New York Times. I was reading Dear Abby this morning, about Heroes. I think that the people who do these sorts of things are my heroes. This was a monumental task and they got it done!
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| Tiny two inch flowering grass |
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| Inch and a Quarter sized wild Morning glory vine next to curb in rubble |
I always come back from walking the short blocks in a better mood. I think that's what little kids do for people, too. They make us slow down and look down at their little flower faces when they ask questions, or find something interesting in the grass.
My mother taught my daughters to look down and really SEE what is there at their feet, because she was always looking for bugs, first to keep them off of her food plants, and then just as an interesting tiny life that went about it's business with a perfect program established for it by a Hand much wiser and all seeing than a gardener's hand.
In fact, gardeners-farmers- have tried for centuries to interrupt or to interfere in this perfect balance, in order to bring in a crop of perfect fruits and vegetables. But, the bigger their farms got, they began to forget the balance that had sustained their lives. If you kill the insects that want to harm the perfection of the fruits, you kill off the beneficial ones who silently make possible the plethora of edibles that surrounds us. The total fertility of the Earth is vast, but it is not Infinite.
Knitting report:
I'm back to knitting the Yukon Leaves socks and just bought some of that Turkish sock yarn from Elann. They might have some of it left, but I'm not going to look. hehe I've learned not to buy a huge amount of any new yarn.
The Political report: Meh!
The Weather Report: Meh! No, really, it's been very cool here, with highs of 68 degrees so far inland that it boggles the mind and makes me think of Climate Change, and to wonder whether or not this all means that California will be getting seasons again.
The Animal Report: This is a fascinating article on how the world's Veterinary Heroes overcame an ancient scourge of cloven hooved mammals. Thank you DH.
Rinderpest is no more. The Article is from the New York Times. I was reading Dear Abby this morning, about Heroes. I think that the people who do these sorts of things are my heroes. This was a monumental task and they got it done!
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