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Datura

it's poisonous.  It can kill you.  at the least, make you crazy for a while.  I tried to pull it all out when the Goats were still coming through the Yards but it has insisted and now,  since i let it,  Blooms.  The Place here smells of Goat.  The buck Goats have been active in this rain season,  i think in Rut but i'm not sure because they are Nigerians and so can breed monthly,  like women,  but it seems there is a bi yearly time when the Bucks feel the need.  So…it's stinky.  Yet,  this morning,  above all that Goat,  was the most incredibly delicately intense Fragrance of this single bloom that halted me in my tracks.  Datura.  

The Grand Daughter calls Tuesday eves on her way from Chico California to Sacremento…to school.   She has head phones or something and i often have an echo of myself…two of me,  one of her and tonight i told her about the knapsack.  I knew it,  that she would like this a lot,  and i told her about the Inktense Pencils and the drawings and well,  about the knapsack and as i knew she would,  she liked it a lot.  She asked if i was going to write anything on the back of the little paper drawings and i said i'd not planned to do that, because i would hopefully just recognize something of the drawing itself and that would be enough and she said yes, but what if someone was looking at them WITH you as you looked and wouldn't have YOUR words for what they were seeing,  maybe having some few small words on the back,  that that other person could read aloud    might be meaningfull…..

There is no way that i can say the extreme Pleasure she is to me.  No way.

 

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This is not going to get me into New Mexico Magazine,  for sure,  but it's an experiment.  I spread two bales of Sunflower stalks over the front of that part of the Oasis…to act as mulch,  to keep the Kochia at bay.  Now it's so obvious but in time,  the dogs and the Weather will break it down as it has over along the road fence where the Native Plums are.  It won't Glare.   But for now,  is an

experiment.

Am interested in 

experiments.

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25 responses to “How it is”

  1. jude Avatar

    you know? I think all beautiful things are, in some way…. poisonous.

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  2. grace Avatar

    Wendy and i are having a conversation about how come i don’t
    cry
    i read these words you write here
    and there are tears.
    not
    crying
    cause i don’t cry.
    by there are very soft humid tears.
    and i think…in keeping with homeopathics….tears and poison
    antidotes

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  3. grace Avatar

    OR, really, blessings, one to another

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  4. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Dear Alyssia, she is so wise and spot on in terms of suggesting words be put on the back of the drawings. Could be that unless you insist on having the knapsack burned or buried with you, she will want it…
    Sunflower mulch, yup, we are doing it also, it is a fine experiment and is my kind of New Mexico and what I would prefer to see in New Mexico magazine instead of places to go and play tourist…this is real.

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  5. grace Avatar

    BUT there are very soft humid tears

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  6. Liz Avatar

    What a wise old soul your granddaughter has …

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  7. grace Avatar

    further conversation about written words was…
    even if i could not remember writing the words, i very well
    might recognize my own hand writing…she has the greatest thoughts…

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  8. grace Avatar

    was just looking at it this morning, the mulch and it looks
    so messy, but i really want to see what comes of it. Bill and
    Nelia had one part of one of their fields over run with wild
    sunflowers and that part got bailed when the rest did. I
    can’t give it to the Goats because there are small amounts of
    Milkweed mixed in and it’s toxic for them, but he keeps wanting
    me to take it…ie get it out of their way, so i’ve brought home
    some bales…
    i’ll take a pic of how it turned out along the fence with the
    Native Plum. Is really good over there and totally mulched out
    the Kochia. Also is great for insects.

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  9. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    Thank you, Grace, for my first “laugh out loud” laugh of the day. Your field in the New Mexico Magazine. Love it! I can see it…

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  10. grace Avatar

    i should do a photo shoot of the whole Thing here and
    send it to them….telling them to get a little more
    well rounded…maybe make it scratch n sniff?

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar

    soil always looks so naked & vulnerable without mulch!

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  12. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    incomplete always looks messy. . .it takes patience and foresight to see what it might become. . .doesn’t bother me!

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  13. Dana Avatar

    That datura is Georgia O’Keefe all over.

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  14. grace Avatar

    yes. she loved them.

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  15. Cathy Avatar
    Cathy

    yes, scratch n sniff…and don’t forget to include the stinky goat stuff!

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  16. handstories Avatar

    unfurling…that first photo & being here.

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  17. grace Avatar

    for sure. it’s our dominant fragrance

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  18. grace Avatar

    it took me so long to feel that way…coming from the Midwest
    where mulch was really an afterthought and a distraction to the
    beauty of naked earth

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  19. grace Avatar

    we’ll see. It’s whether or not it WORKS. Kochia may just come right through and then it will need to be raked out.

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  20. grace Avatar

    once unfurled, they last one single night. Daylight withering
    them to limp substance

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  21. deb lacativa Avatar

    the flowers took my breath away. I wonder if they are related to the moonflowers?

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  22. tracy Avatar
    tracy

    Good mulch. Our ash tree drops millions of seeds. Tom used to spend many weekends trying to clean them up. Now we leave them for mulch. Last year we raked them up with the leaves in the fall and they had partially turned to dirt. It doesn’t rain, so we don’t worry about having a small forest sprout.
    Love the beautiful datura. I love your grandaughter too. Luck Grace.

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  23. grace Avatar

    i don’t know…will have to read…

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  24. grace Avatar

    thank you for the Luck.

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  25. saskia Avatar

    such a profound way of seeing

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