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along Carefree,  by the convergence of the seasonal stream and the canal/creek.   Too many to count.   Then none for the strip of the Rooster Swamp but again at the turn in from Old Olive…both sides of the road.   Ahead of those at B Garden…already full blooming.   I wonder if there is an awareness of finally being SEEN  in the full meaning of the word….literally seen and acknowledged.   Needed.   Understood to be Needed.    ?   All the while,  just  Be ing.       

Jenny and her man brought their dogs today.  Jo and Daisy.   who had come all along in the beginning here when they worked weekends to fence the 6 acre perimeter.   and then,   when we came,  Tay and i,  no more.   There was once and it was fraught with tension.   a lot could be said about this but that time has passed and today was today.    

When they were just at the beginning of the walk up from the Big Gate where they parked,   Goats ran to meet them,  then saw the dogs and made a  b line for me here…i knew they'd arrived….Goats gathered tight,  their eyes rivited on the road up   

i walked to meet them and we sat,   just waiting and in short time Goats came to look.   Wary,  but really unafraid because we were all here,  just sitting,  just talking.   Jenny's man uses electric collar and verbal command,  but there was next to no need for either….they all regarded Each Other ….and soon,  Goats went about their day.   Could not have been better.   Meeting up with Talkie will be a different thing.   

was on phone with Alyssia LATE into the night,  last,  and i heard a rustling outside …jumped up to get the FatMax spotlight while yelling WHO IS THERE….i scared Alyssia….i actually thought it was the cats that come,   there was a large trash bag and an empty feed bag….fumbling with the phone  on camera   and the light,  i saw  there….standing and staring up at me…

a possum.    a just Fine possum  that,  as i tried to figure out how to take a pic,   just ambled away into the night.     it's going to be an interesting summer.

 

 

 

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18 responses to “again and still,”

  1. Deb G Avatar

    I am pretty sure I have a opossum hanging out occasionally in my garden. One was strolling down the road a couple days ago, mostly along the parked cars.

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    I will come back in hopes that someone will have named the beings …

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  3. jude Avatar

    Possum was the first visitor here when I moved in.

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  4. CatherinE Avatar

    I love reading about all your relations…and I mean more than your human family. Can you imagine what it was like to live in close relation with all the various plants and animals that surround us!

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  5. Faith Avatar

    I’ve heard there are possums here, but I’ve not seen any. We had one in Virginia that would come up onto the deck (’cause my husband fed the squirrels there).

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  6. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Never a full day .. Happy May Day Grace!!!

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are very Casual beings

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    and is it a regular thing?

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    a little, a little i can imagine, from my childhood,
    but i want to imagine More…from now

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    i am sure one of the things that Tay would now allow.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    Tina…to YOU, Happy May Day to you, love love

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  12. jude Avatar

    Yeah,  around 9 pm. A compost  visit. 

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  13. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    Yes ma’am, we have possums here as well – their nails clatter on the out-front bricks and concrete, and the eastern deck. I think our home is in the middle of their nocturnal “hikes”.
    I’m with Liz – I would love to know what those two plants are (Liz calls them beings, as they are). I looked all over CA native plant guides, no luck or maybe my eyes have gone completely “south”.

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  14. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    Wait … are they plantains? (at this point I’m sure you’re thinking “well of course they are”)

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes they are, but the ones that experienced the deep flow of Rain….their Response…..

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar

    compost not here…is way over the rise, at the top of B.
    i will need to learn some things.

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are just the Glorious form of Plantain after one of
    the most Amazingly challenging Winters ever…..
    how do we understand it?????????????????????????

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