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August 29, 2018

Giving water. Wall Garden. Lost in thought, gazing in that vague and open way, for movement of the tree frogs, or spring peepers of the Old Place, but mostly, lost in thought when the Brain alerted. LOOOK! and i startled and looked. Those stalk stumps mean only one thing.

here????????

yes. here. How brilliant, the Hawk Moth, amidst a meadow of dry seeding native grasses, a forest of Pine and Oak. No garden here, ever before. No tomatoes or eggplant. Ever before. Nightshades. Then, there are natural occuring nightshades…???? I am in awe of the Brilliance of this evolved biosphere. In awe.

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6 responses to “Amazement and Gratitude and Wonder and Love, just Love. So much Love.”

Patty

August 30, 2018

Must be the season. Just watched a monarch caterpillar finishing up
a parsley plant. I wished her well and smiled.

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Peggy McG

August 30, 2018

we call them Hummingbird Moths So amazing. It always makes me wonder when I find things just because I was there.

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jaime

August 30, 2018

It looked like a tomato horn worm to me but went looking to see what the differences might be. I found one notation of it/them eating collard greens. Whatever they are called and whatever they eat they are of an amazing design. Have you sketched them yet for the nature journal?

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Mo Crow

August 30, 2018

what a fat caterpillar, I am always amazed by the magic of nature, how she adapts her order of things when we plant a garden, discovering the yumminess of an eggplant leaf or how a pile of leaves and twigs will turn into mulch and bring earth worms. When my gardening customers get upset about a few holes in the leaves of their shrubberies and ornamentals I ask them if they love butterflies!

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Marti

August 30, 2018

Harvesting Swiss chard and spinach this morning, checking out the garden since we got back from almost three weeks gone, I can tell that those who live here first, have enjoyed dining here and that is a good feeling; sharing food for all is just fine although I have to admit that the most perfect Amish paste tomato, so wonderfully formed and red was eaten in half on the tomato side that I couldn’t see as it was facing the fence…when I picked it I saw it had been chomped and that gave me a moment of pain as I love to use these to make tomato sauce…but as my dearly loved son in law’s father Harold used to say, “it’s all good…”

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Vicky Davis

August 30, 2018

there are soooo many different kinds/colors of those moths and their catti beginnings….and all so beautiful!
like Mo said, i love butterflies, so i don’t be grudge them any of my garden.
we also have a very young doe on her own, too skinny, and i think about this as my neighbor mows his lawn…wanting him to leave the dandelions for the doe.

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