just out from the canopy frame, you can see a little that is left from last year. Clear gravel and crushed stone. The rest is covered mostly with clover. That thing about the front and the back that the Rinpoche taught at Jewel Heart Temple in Ann Arbor so many years ago: The bigger the front, the bigger the back.
It GROwS. Because we were Here, last year, last summer. Because we GARDENED last year, last summer. Everything is new and different in response to our having been here. In response to what we did. in response to Us.
the clover is LUSH and so elegant a nutrient to the Earth here. But also, it is High. It is hip, almost waist high for Emrie. And this is also where the rattlesnakes hang out in this and the next month or two until the Heat sets in. So, amidst the luxurious clover, snakes might very well move through their own days, living their lives.
What to think?
When it was gravel and crushed stone last year, we could SEE the ground under our feet. We could gaze over the space and see. Now we can't. Julian has learned, at 9 yrs, to take the snakes into consideration. He's learned that these next couple months belong to them. Emrie doesn't know. and there's no way to tell her. She is a very physically active child. She MOVES.
So…how do we work this?
somewhere in here is the faucet for the water. You can see, if you click it to enlarge, all the many Storks Bill or Cranesbill. Somewhere in there is where we turn on the water to give to the Asian Pear, the Plumcot. To the maybe still viable grapevines along the fence that have been taken over by the Vetch. The Plant People here are INtenSe and GO! What to think? How to live?
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