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the elegant perfect exit holes from a last year's gall.   Two galls from a branch of the tree i pictured the other day….new.  This year.  Larvae inside.   The branch had been pushed to the ground.  I read and read,  did not see if the gall needs to remain on the Oak branch for the cycle to continue?   We will keep safe and hope.  

in the bottom of the back  pasture of the Place across the way is a Very large old Fig.    Waiting.   Readying.  

in some places humanity is ravaged by War

here,  some pretend and murder at a grocery store people the color of some of my family

the phone just pinged.  The black onyx wrist Mala  for prostration and protection that i ordered on Etsy….my first purchase there,  so long ago i had lost hope and forgotten,  has  shipped from Kathmandu,  Nepal

the gall wasp continues       the Oak trees receive     the figs will be pollinated

and for the first time in 100 years,   there are Otter in the Detroit River.   Detroit,  where i was born.   The first in my lifetime have returned.     NPR All Things Considered

 

 

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11 responses to “the life of a gall wasp, of a fig, a river”

  1. Yvette Avatar

    No trust in people anymore

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    I found this hopeful bit of information: “The gall grows around the larva for a short period, then stops, also ceasing to use the host plant’s nutrients. The little insect lives inside this gall which provides food and shelter to the larval wasp.” Here’s the link to the full article https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/news/entry/oak-gall-wasps

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  3. Joanne in Maine Avatar
    Joanne in Maine

    The Detroit River. I am reminded of the River in Cleveland, Ohio catching on Fire and a spark igniting the Mayor’s Hair in the 60’s. Now I am going to sit and laugh awhile. Thanks for the Memories.

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  4. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Oh the Wonders of Nature! Spring Commands me to be outside. Although this spring has gotten too hot too fast! Yesterday. At a gas station in north west Kansas near the Nebraska border..an elderly gentleman at the pump next to me says What do you think of this Hot Spring weather!! Is it Spring or Summer? I laughed with him. The next minute the radio is blasting a tornado warning! I called my daughter who has a tracking device on my phone and she pulled up the weather map and told me which way to drive! Only got a patch of hail then on to sunshine! I now sit in the best little city park that has free camping free electric and water… bathrooms and gorgeous trees and mowed lawn with picnic tables!! I am reading up on a class I am taking on facebook for eco dying. So excited for you to find oak galls!! And now learning the cycle of its host. And Otters.. Isnt this a great time to have access to internet? Until you hear the bad sides of Human Nature… I pray someday we fix the earth and the people who roam it. Love to All!!

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  5. CatherinE Avatar

    I have recently been exposed to ideas about how we contribute to the “collective consciousness” and I’m coming to believe it. Thank you to Grace and commenters here for helping me contribute positively rather than negatively (I’ve done my share of that, for sure!). The wondrously good and the devastatingly bad…this is our world.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    all the more reason to look for it, to search it out

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    Ahh. THANK YOU!

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is….internet. so much.
    I LOVE LOVE LOVE word of your wandering…picturing your
    words. My mother was born in Nebraska. To a mother who
    did not yet speak English.
    Please keep Telling…when you can…where you Are, What
    you see.
    I can have as many Oak Galls as you might want…Tannin.
    Love you, Peggy

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    CatherinE…it IS. it is our world. and our TIME.
    Humanity is outgrowing it’s adolescence. We are being
    asked to Become.
    Am thinking about this a LOT. How we are being given a mirror of All of It …..
    I am so glad you are here. Thank You for that. Thank
    You for coming here.

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  10. Margery Avatar

    We humans can’t “fix” the Earth. We can learn to allow ourselves to be brought back into harmony with the Earth Community — then blossomings will happen. Life loves to live.

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