California, united states Hill Vetch and Rattlesnake Grass Bloooooooom.
elsewhere Indonesia. an Orangutan suffered a painful wound to his cheek. He chewed plant leaves known to have pain relieving and healing properties, rubbed the juice on the opened wound then used the leaves as a poultice to cover his injury.
Repeatedly. it healed.
Brood 19 cicadas emerge. Southeast United states
right there….underfoot a strip of Toad Egg cloth Tomato plant tie. Gone Feral.
bookmark photograph, 3 years ago Colorado granddaughter when they visited California Holding place in Sharon Salzberg's Real Happiness
all kinds and they are coming to seed. More kinds than "usual". So BeautyFull in the wind, like an ocean on the hillsides and this plant….flower, for the life of me. i can't think of it's name….it's one of Marti's favorites…i bought it that first year "for her" at the Master Gardner Plant Sale was quickly over shadowed by this Daisy Bush is only a couple woody stems of a plant….but always at least one cluster of these so deeply red blossoms and here, with the grass well…………………..
in the company
of the Pomegranate tree. And all is Well. That STORM, that so so strange Storm of Friday night….the SUDDEN violence of it….Thunder Lightning Hail And i was hesitant to look on Saturday after the Meeting at the Well
today. Some How…….it was if nothing happened.?????? Not just the melons, but all else, tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, squash Every One. and it was warm and there was SUN and
such a Gentle Day
of Alyssia's face. She must have been Four years. She sat so patiently while i applied all the wet strips of plaster gauze. Until they dried enough to finally remove from her. I think, in El Cerro Mission, N Mex? the figure holds a frayed Sweet Grass braid a Cottonwood branch
one of the early ones
in the storage tubs at B. Was looking for something else but…..these photographs and others……. in a handsewn Envelope from the Gallery that i was involved with. Art dolls. Fiber figures. I am surprised at how deep the feeling is….still….it's been many years. This is the last one i made. The best. except for the one of The Child…..lifesize with it's facemask from one i made of Alyssia her probably 4 yo self
preparing that part of the bed to receive the green bean seeds……digging in the top soil there,
THIS
i'd forgotten that i stuck a sweet potato there, one that had been overlooked and developed eyes but then didn't flourish planted either but today…..This. Proving that You Can. Grow food. Will give it to Alyssia for her toaster oven….they can share it. Each a tiny bite. with butter. From B Garden.
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