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they're relatively small.    these are squash leaves.   They are all over in the little faux raised beds.   in August.   Mushrooms.   ?????    One of the  What If's  for dye.     I brought the copper pot out from behind this place.  Will wash it tomorrow.  Found 3 qt jars.   

Emrie and i have had 2 consecutive days together…Alyssia's   VA medical has finally clicked in…she has

appointments.   that means me and Emrie.   Yesterday we washed the vehicle Friend with the garden spray nozzle.  I moved Friend and left the keys in the ignition for a few hours till i remembered and then,  just took them out.  But late last night there was a very small whir sound and i went out naked into the night because i couldn't identify it and it was….Friend.  and i thought to move Them but found the battery dead.   eeeee.    So today,  after her appointment,   we jumped the battery and i had a half hour of driving to do to recharge.  Ok….  Tay and i drove up to the Visitors Center  and turned around and drove back down to the intersection by Lakeside and went straight through where it became Miner's Ranch Rd and went and went and we passed what i think are Olive orchards?   The roads are all very winding  with very little shoulder for the most part and a 45 speed limit/requirement .     i wanted to drive slow and pull over a lot…but ….not…so i am left with a lot of wondering but what i did see and understand some about is the Changes in the land here….from the Visitors Center to all along Miner's Ranch rd..  probably elevation?  but i don't know,  but it is not homogenous .   it is very different and there was an odd expanse that almost felt like Escondida, New Mexico…????   All the human habitation along those roads also so different one to another,  individual and  often one of a kind.    I thought about when they were…built…when the people came there and claimed the space.  California is…is ….is   a truly Beauty FULL place of Earth….strange and Beauty Full Land.    I can imagine it,  without…..people.     it all was a little surreal  and when i thought i'd gone far enough,  i turned around and came   HOME….to CareFree way,  turned in and drove up,    pulled in by the big gate and thought….I live here.    I live here.    This is where i live.   this is HERE.

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18 responses to “They”

  1. Yvette Avatar

    Great Grace……your mountain became really home!

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    almost three years we have been here and your post has me realizing there is much around us that we have yet to explore …

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  3. CatherinE Avatar

    Thich Nhat Hanh has a calligraphy that says
    I have arrived
    I am home

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  4. Jan Rowan Avatar
    Jan Rowan

    Yes, this is home now…..I made a commitment to this land…..this being ……years ago and continue to get new understandings about what that means…

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  5. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    I got that feeling last Sunday when I got back from the lake. I felt as if I traveled to and from another plant with some weird planets along the way. Georgia is HUGE and the upper third has so much topological variation. The rest of the state is flat. Looks played out and farmed to death. Cotton, corn or cattle and everything stinks of fertilizer.
    What was the whirring noise from Friend?

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  6. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    planet

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  7. jude Avatar

    i don’t know how to id the poisonous mushrooms.
    i waffle between home and not home, the sense of that.

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  8. Nancy Avatar

    Okay…my first response was to go check out that Miner’s Ranch road, to see/feel what it looks like up there. Yes, those are Olive trees. We have a lot down here too.
    https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Miners-Ranch-Rd_Oroville_CA_95966_M95727-11374

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    it is…and On
    Going
    showing me

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i could spend ALL the time…driving and showing
    it is amazing
    i don’t know what to do with it all….??????

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    i need to go there…see that. re create it
    here
    for this Time

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    Jan…so good to find you here today…and yes.
    just North of me. We are
    HERE

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    to know
    where we Are…..What our context is
    i don’t know…the sound, other than the final whir
    of Battery energy ????

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i need to find a PERSON for the mushrooms….maybe at
    Verbena Fields….when i manage to take self there….
    yes…the waffling takes its own time and must be allowed that, its own time
    otherwise there is no comfort. i think it all happens of its own accord. the little one might PLACE you.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    i love this…dearest and Best You….

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    someone needs to hire me.
    i’ll go back. Takes some pics for you. It’s so much
    more than what you have found. I’ll show you.

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