There is this There is this, the fading orange gold of summer evening light, the scraps of dusk caught in the western hedge, a warbler singing softly in a willow tree. The fading orange gold of summer evening light Read more …
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In ‘Seven Tree Field’ whence we come week by week I’ve been taking picture of trees as all seasons come and the changes are done of the wonder my camera lens sees […] Read more …
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CarolCooks2 weekly roundup…July 11th-17th July 2021…#Plastic Free July, #Swan Upping, Music,#Feijoa Fruit “Green Gold”… Plastic Free July, Be the Change, Music, A-Z and Feijoa Fruit “Green Gold” and #Swan Upping. Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly roundup of posts…Especially for you just in case you missed a few posts during this last week…Time is […]
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Gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba) revisited July 18, 2021 / Books & Bonsai beginBonsai This is a tree I started as a cutting in 2018 (see https://beginbonsai.net/2020/08/23/gumbo-limbo-baby-bursera-simaruba/ for its history, and see https://beginbonsai.net/2019/09/02/gumbo-limbo-bursera-simaruba/ for a history of its parent). I haven’t seen a lot of these developed as bonsai. They are hardy, can be easily propagated from […]
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I haven’t re-blogged TokyoSand’s weekly cartoon posts for the past couple of weeks because the ‘toons seemed just too dark. Not TS’ fault at all, but just a statement of the way things are these days … it’s hard to find humour in things some days. However, I found this week’s to be grin-worthy and […]
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I look out at the July rain, listen to the thunder roll, the wind in the chimney, mop the water off the floor and try to find the voice of summer. In the livid meadow, … Read more …
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STOP! I sometimes have to laugh when I hear it said that the U.S. is such a progressive, forward-thinking nation, for others are far ahead of the U.S. in many ways. One of those ways is plastics, or more specifically, the elimination of single-use plastics. Take New Zealand, for example, the country that has committed […]
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Haiku 7/12 by Annette Rochelle Aben Here, to read.
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A moment of summer That moment of utter calm, golden as buttercup mornings and pollen-dropping dusk, when summer settles, a hand, a face in the blue, and each tiny insect sound […] Source: A moment of summer Source: Jane Dougherty
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1st July 2021…Plastic Free July…Be the Change… Originally posted on Retired? No one told me!: Who is going to join me for Plastic Free July…? (Sign up for the challenge here) “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.… 1st July 2021…Plastic Free July…Be the Change… 38 […]
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