Monday was about weaving while I thought about stitching, finishing the Sacks book and walking.
I recommend all three! If you can.
Catching up online while weaving. Bruce and Melissa on the screen.
Lovely bright weather for walking
As I got to this point I started hearing the plomp sounds of frogs leaping into the water, and saw a couple as they flew from the bank, see the widening circles in the pond.
I got closer
There were dragonflies in action, we have a lot of them, several species, and water boatmen on the water surface. I think some of them may have been taken by frogs, when they suddenly submerged.
Here's a wild strawberry or something adjacent, and there are many around here. There's also spraying, so I don't check them out.
Home again I sat outside reading and watching birds, and noticing the honesty has started its seedpods
Once they're silver, I'll let the seeds fall then add the branches of silver disks to my collection in the downstairs bathroom.
The purple flowers are the sage. They're similar in shape to antirrhinum.
And
the yellow potatoes are starting up.
The Sacks book of essays, some written near the end of his life, is full of wisdom, really worth reading.
He understood the value of plants and being involved with them, and would seek out botanical gardens when he traveled. He comments that his psychiatric hospital work kept him in New York city, and only the gardens made it tolerable. How I agree.
And I'm now rereading an old favorite, full of comic scenes
I know it so well I'm laughing in anticipation of the antics of Nicky.
Happy day, everyone, flowers all round!
I read Georgette Heyer in my very early teens. I should probably revist her with the wisdom of age.
ReplyDeleteYour walk sounds delightful. I love frogs.
I think you'd appreciate her comedy more now. Worth revisiting
DeleteSo that's what those silver seed pod discs look like before they dry!
ReplyDeleteThe shape is a good identifier, but the discs look so different when they mature.
DeleteFor years we had frogs in our pond, hundreds of them, then they stopped, just like that. We do have newts, though, and lots of dragonflies.
ReplyDeleteLovely reflections in the water on your walk.
I wonder what happened to cause the population crash?
DeleteOh, how I love that song and how I love that video! I can't believe that's what you were watching.
ReplyDeleteBruce.
Melissa.
What a nice walk and it looks like the weaving is going well.
When I lived in Denver, I somehow found the botanical garden there and it saved whatever I had left of my mind during the long months I lived there. I would go visit it just to smell some plants and feel their breath.
Yes. The ancient people of the middle east knew what they were doing when they designed gardens and water features, for walking in. It's so balancing.
DeleteI saw Bruce in concert when I lived in Atlanta. He gives it his all.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lovely area to walk through, the pond is pretty. I don't have frogs or garter snakes anymore. I blame it on the farm chemicals.
I have a lot of wild strawberries in my yard. the fruit is tiny. Plants are so important to well-being. And to life.
It is a nice walking area and I'm encouraged that we do have wildlife despite spraying. Maybe this area is missed by both the development landscapers and the golf course ones.
DeleteOn the airplane i watched a DOC re: Bruce- What a gift!!
ReplyDeleteYour weaving in the best of all possible color combinations look remarkably cosy! I love them. What ever you do with them will be wonderful!
I don't yet know what I'll make with them. They're a kind of meditation at the moment.
DeleteI know I need plants. That's for sure! Glad to hear there's so much wildlife along the shoreline of your pond.
ReplyDeleteThis general area has a lot of wildlife, despite the development.
DeleteLife is a'hoppin right now.
ReplyDeleteUes, if the frogs are anything to go by
DeleteYes, that is. One of my recurring typos.
DeleteI love a good frog pond! Always something interesting there!
ReplyDeleteNature abounds for you at this time of the year. While I don't live where there are frogs, there are much fewer around nowadays.
ReplyDeleteThey do seem to be vanishing. , but I treasure what's there.
DeleteGetting back to nature, especially these days, is crucial to a healthy mind.
ReplyDeleteWe are so plugged in that we literally need to unplug and enjoy just being human in a beautiful world.
Love the colours of your weaving
Yes, this is part of keeping our balance.
DeleteBeautiful photos. I’d like to go on that walk.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice, not too long, right from home. There's shade, too, a big point for me.
DeleteGlad to hear it's walking weather again!
ReplyDeleteChris from Boise
So am I!
DeleteWhat beautiful views you shared. That's a marvelous walk and isn't it wonderful when we can actually do that. So nice that it's quite near to home.
ReplyDeleteIt's so good when you don't have to drive in order to walk.
DeleteI love your weaving squares and now I'm wondering what you will do with them. A skirt, maybe? Or maybe a table runner/cloth? So many possibilities.
ReplyDeleteThey're four inches square, so it would need a lot!
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