"not what is not there         and yet not what is there now       but what is coming" Jan in Nagasaki….Jude's friend     Alyssia had a long scheduled appointment at the VA Hospital in Sacramento.   Kids were here.   We did things.   The Goats came and went as did Talkie,  Tay and…

  from yesterday.    The first is how they sometimes become,  the Chaparral Whitethorn.   An arch. Sometimes they continue to curve completely.   An Eeyore.   Before we came,  the turkeys used them for shelters and the quail.  Maybe others.   There were rabbits.   Some are quite big,  one near this home,  a Goat fits.   Just Going likes…

Manzanita    

i could  not ask or hope for Anything more.  Ever.    Salamander.   So young.  New.   Born Here.   Born for this Hill.

tomato seeds   The Tower.   Mushroom.   Herbcrafters Tarot.  " a tree crashes in a dark wood into a bed of brown, gold and green leaves.  A large decaying piece of the trunk is covered with mushrooms.   When the wood is touched,  it gives way,  crumbling to dust.  Light shines through the forest and hits the…

this image won't make much sense but needs to be here for the purpose of Journaling.   It is of ONE of the MANY,  it turns out,  the MANY Chaparral Whitethorns.    Like MANY.   Which were Invisible up to the last days.  There,   So much There,   but unseen.   And their relation to a Plant form that…

there's a small community of these,   wildflowers blooming.   We figured out   "what"  they were last year and i don't remember.  I worked down there today,  at the Wall Garden and off and on went over to study them close,  squatting,  leaning in.     They just grow in the gravel.   Of their own accord.   Appearing.  For…

got a call from Ernie at Lakeside Diesel.    "Old Yeller" is ready.   Tay and i set out walking the canal road.   See these two Manzanitas.   BeautyFULL….so much.   this part of the Hill would be covered in 12 to 18 inch grasses.   Flash tinder for Fire if it came nearby.   The Goats cris cross…

we looked.  more.   looking for Rings that might tell a story.   What we saw ,   rings?,    but with only a hair between,  if that?  How slow.    How slow did this tree grow?   What conditions ?   How could this be?   these branches and trunks.   A hundred years?   this is how i felt.   This…

this is understandable.   It was old (?)   or   diseased?   but it fell  with the weight of it's wetness during Winter Rain.   Easy to see that all its interior was already transitioning by decomposition.   Wind broke it.   but then….this.   These Oaks have multiple trunks rising from the same Earth Body.   This is how Oaks are…