Full Cast and Blast Moon
Full moon rises about 25 minutes after sunset this evening. If last night was any indication, it will be a grand affair. I missed the partial lunar eclipse this morning, it was lost behind my eyelids! This is a "Wolf Moon" and a Blue Moon (second in one month 1-1-18 and 1-31-18)!
Moon-Set at St. Marks
bright sickle used
by the bent farmer of the salt
marsh slowly sinks
into mud flats as he
shuffles home with his heavy
sack of crabs
Janisse Ray
A House of Branches
speaking of great poets, David Lee says his dollar this is gonna be a beaut!
Dave sent this poem, his Get Up and Be Ready Awakening Piece:
Autumn Eclipse
September 2015
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
The lovely
white silence of evening
as she walks darkly
through opening shadows
of night, hands
clasped behind her back
up a game trail of stars
wishing only
not to be seen
tonight
as a goddess
but La Luna robed
gentle in the lifting palm
of twilight
David Lee
Sweet, thanks Dave!
1-1-18 Happy New Year y'all! P and i toast you guys our best friends with a glass of choice tart red 3/$20 from the kitchen table tonight. The dense tree line to our East is almost leafless and we saw her rising through the twigs. She is as pretty as we hoped she would be. The temperatures here are nose diving and we are looking at several days of below freezing temperatures.
1-2-18 This is not a day to be outside. Our tender tropical veggies are insulated, the coop is wrapped and pipes protected. P and I are hunkered down hoping it will blow over soon.
Celebrate Nothing Much To Do
1-4-18 I drove to BR-town to meet a great guy, Rick Webb, a Louisiana natives nurseryman and just an all around good guy. Rick is a promoter of using natives in our landscapes. He is one of my heroes. I learn every time we are together. Oh and I was there to pick up a load of plants from him for an on-campus student natives landscaping project.
1-5-18 7:30 am, oil train slinking through downtown New Iberia. Hey Beth, you hear that? Annual eye exam this morning. I checked out great. This means that I have no excuse to miss those ducks I am stalking in the perennial Cast and Blast weekend with my brothers John and Jeff. This afternoon has been a joy, sunny and mild for a change, makes a guy want to take a nap in the grass and sunshine out of the wind, taking advantage of one of my favorite things to do on a Louisiana winter day.
1-6-17 7 am at John's home in Lafayette ready to leave for the Cast and Blast extravaganza. Our host David truly knows how to make us feel special. Weather cool and breezy. Excited! Arrive at the camp 10-ish for brunch of eggs, biscuits, grits, and grillades made from a very young wild pig someone murdered. OH MY, now that was good! We fished in the afternoon, Redfish are in trouble in these shallow bays. The freeze the last few days has killed many. One sign of this to me is the ganging-up of White Pelicans who will pig out on the stranded and dead fish. Lots of Brown Pelicans about but they don't gang up like the Whites do. Of course these are the observations of a simple gardener, so take them with a grain of compost.
The ducks were liking it though and we took advantage of their exuberance for a fine hunt Sunday morning.
1-10-18 1 pm, Oil Train sliding through Lafayette. Big ugly snake of a train, scary, really dangerous. Recently I noted, while scanning the Daily Iberian one evening, a photo and in the background there was in the another oil train, this one snaking through our sweet little unsuspecting "Berry" town!
Beth recently told me that they no longer see them, as she and Terry have moved on to Austin from Monroe. I guess they are off that evil rolling pipeline route.
1-12-18 Fish Eagle ( Osprey) over Lake Bigeau, one Bald Eagle at each end of Atchafalaya Basin Causeway. Pretty cool y'all.
1-16-18 Brother Sun rose through a narrow slit in the partial cloud cover @707am. Red Shoulder Hawk cruising down the cane rows adjacent to Bayou Teche edge at the Keystone Lock.
1-18-18 Cold, cold, cold! Getting ready for Arbor Day which is the third friday in January in Louisiana, too early you say! No way, this is perfect tree planting weather. Nice Red Tail Hawk over campus!
1-19-19 Arbor Day! Yay! Beginning bed prep by Soil and Water Society, a student organization, for a native plant planting at the corner of our building, then noon tree planting. Planted an Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var virginiana) and a Red Bay (Persea borbonia)! It was a great time. P, being out of school again, came to Lafayette and recited an arbor day poem and lead in the singing of the national anthem, two trees were planted and watered in nicely. THEN we walked over to the Cajun Prairie Patch Pollinator Garden, all 400 sq ft of it and set it ablaze, right in the middle of a college campus, OH MY GOSH! It was a grand event! So much fun, most of my student have never done anything like this. Someone used to do this on the sly but never officially like this, this is big y'all! In the past we would come in on Monday morning and it was done over the weekend, no witnesses, HMMMMM, I wonder???
1-26-18 Today, after class, I embarked to Woodworth with a group of enthusiastic students to study native plants and attend a native plant conference. The conference planned 6 excellent speakers Friday night and Saturday morning with a field trip on Sunday morning. Our class group planned to camp in the Kisatchie NF which is open to camp in most places. The only hitch was a pretty heavy chance of rain. We arrived early enough to find a campsite and set up before the Friday night and well before the beginning of the promised rain which started after midnight. The wet stuff continued off and on until early Saturday afternoon. We had several opportunities to botanize those woods, rub shoulders with fascinating plant/animal/fungi geeks and be influenced by several fine speakers.
1-28-18 Near Forest Hill exit off of I-49S a field full of Great Egrets! No wait, those are Snow Geese, oh wow! This is Sand Hill Crane country too, in this cold wet part of the winter, lots of action.
Idyll
Michael Haydn, Horn Concerto in D major
Sky reverberates
with the smudge of cranes
Their gabble
thaws the clumsy thickness
of winter soaked morning
From the office of my home library wall
poem by David Lee
After Reading Lucretius, I Go To The Pond
The slippery green frog
that went to his death
in the heron's pink throat
was my small brother,
and the heron
with the white plumes
like a crown on his head
who is washing now his great sword-beak
in the shining pond
is my tall thin brother.
My heart dresses in black
and dances.
Mary Oliver
Blue Horses, poems
Get out and enjoy that happy moon rise tonight. I will toast you my friends and that fine moon. Host your elders, bring them with you as you go outdoors for the adventure, oh and drag your unplugged youngsters, they will have fun.
peace love possumhugs
BT
Moon-Set at St. Marks
bright sickle used
by the bent farmer of the salt
marsh slowly sinks
into mud flats as he
shuffles home with his heavy
sack of crabs
Janisse Ray
A House of Branches
speaking of great poets, David Lee says his dollar this is gonna be a beaut!
Dave sent this poem, his Get Up and Be Ready Awakening Piece:
Autumn Eclipse
September 2015
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
The lovely
white silence of evening
as she walks darkly
through opening shadows
of night, hands
clasped behind her back
up a game trail of stars
wishing only
not to be seen
tonight
as a goddess
but La Luna robed
gentle in the lifting palm
of twilight
David Lee
Sweet, thanks Dave!
1-1-18 Happy New Year y'all! P and i toast you guys our best friends with a glass of choice tart red 3/$20 from the kitchen table tonight. The dense tree line to our East is almost leafless and we saw her rising through the twigs. She is as pretty as we hoped she would be. The temperatures here are nose diving and we are looking at several days of below freezing temperatures.
1-2-18 This is not a day to be outside. Our tender tropical veggies are insulated, the coop is wrapped and pipes protected. P and I are hunkered down hoping it will blow over soon.
Celebrate Nothing Much To Do
Not much happened this week.
A layer of ice.
Schools closed.
A layer of ice.
Schools closed.
I stoked the fire.
Carefully added a log or two.
Then let it go out.
Carefully added a log or two.
Then let it go out.
Crochet needle looped and looped
a neck warmer for a friend,
prayers for an injured boy.
a neck warmer for a friend,
prayers for an injured boy.
Ukulele picking.
Hallelujah
From G to E-minor
cramped and challenged
this weak left hand.
Hallelujah
From G to E-minor
cramped and challenged
this weak left hand.
Read a book
about Love,
And the face staring back
in the bathroom mirror--
this, too, is love.*
about Love,
And the face staring back
in the bathroom mirror--
this, too, is love.*
A book about a Fall,
I didn't look up
I didn't look down
I just kept on climbing
one step at a time.*
I didn't look up
I didn't look down
I just kept on climbing
one step at a time.*
Cooked and cared for
my mother-in-law
recovering from surgery.
"I'm fine," she insisted.
She's fine, I know.
my mother-in-law
recovering from surgery.
"I'm fine," she insisted.
She's fine, I know.
Wrote a poem
with only a few words,
lifted it up like a paper airplane,
and sent it out into the world.
with only a few words,
lifted it up like a paper airplane,
and sent it out into the world.
* Matt de la Peña Love
* Dan Santat After the Fall
Margaret Simon
1-3-18 I'm back in the office today, it really feels good. I guess the cold and wet gave me cabin fever. 1-4-18 I drove to BR-town to meet a great guy, Rick Webb, a Louisiana natives nurseryman and just an all around good guy. Rick is a promoter of using natives in our landscapes. He is one of my heroes. I learn every time we are together. Oh and I was there to pick up a load of plants from him for an on-campus student natives landscaping project.
1-5-18 7:30 am, oil train slinking through downtown New Iberia. Hey Beth, you hear that? Annual eye exam this morning. I checked out great. This means that I have no excuse to miss those ducks I am stalking in the perennial Cast and Blast weekend with my brothers John and Jeff. This afternoon has been a joy, sunny and mild for a change, makes a guy want to take a nap in the grass and sunshine out of the wind, taking advantage of one of my favorite things to do on a Louisiana winter day.
1-6-17 7 am at John's home in Lafayette ready to leave for the Cast and Blast extravaganza. Our host David truly knows how to make us feel special. Weather cool and breezy. Excited! Arrive at the camp 10-ish for brunch of eggs, biscuits, grits, and grillades made from a very young wild pig someone murdered. OH MY, now that was good! We fished in the afternoon, Redfish are in trouble in these shallow bays. The freeze the last few days has killed many. One sign of this to me is the ganging-up of White Pelicans who will pig out on the stranded and dead fish. Lots of Brown Pelicans about but they don't gang up like the Whites do. Of course these are the observations of a simple gardener, so take them with a grain of compost.
The ducks were liking it though and we took advantage of their exuberance for a fine hunt Sunday morning.
1-10-18 1 pm, Oil Train sliding through Lafayette. Big ugly snake of a train, scary, really dangerous. Recently I noted, while scanning the Daily Iberian one evening, a photo and in the background there was in the another oil train, this one snaking through our sweet little unsuspecting "Berry" town!
Beth recently told me that they no longer see them, as she and Terry have moved on to Austin from Monroe. I guess they are off that evil rolling pipeline route.
1-12-18 Fish Eagle ( Osprey) over Lake Bigeau, one Bald Eagle at each end of Atchafalaya Basin Causeway. Pretty cool y'all.
1-16-18 Brother Sun rose through a narrow slit in the partial cloud cover @707am. Red Shoulder Hawk cruising down the cane rows adjacent to Bayou Teche edge at the Keystone Lock.
1-18-18 Cold, cold, cold! Getting ready for Arbor Day which is the third friday in January in Louisiana, too early you say! No way, this is perfect tree planting weather. Nice Red Tail Hawk over campus!
1-19-19 Arbor Day! Yay! Beginning bed prep by Soil and Water Society, a student organization, for a native plant planting at the corner of our building, then noon tree planting. Planted an Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var virginiana) and a Red Bay (Persea borbonia)! It was a great time. P, being out of school again, came to Lafayette and recited an arbor day poem and lead in the singing of the national anthem, two trees were planted and watered in nicely. THEN we walked over to the Cajun Prairie Patch Pollinator Garden, all 400 sq ft of it and set it ablaze, right in the middle of a college campus, OH MY GOSH! It was a grand event! So much fun, most of my student have never done anything like this. Someone used to do this on the sly but never officially like this, this is big y'all! In the past we would come in on Monday morning and it was done over the weekend, no witnesses, HMMMMM, I wonder???
1-26-18 Today, after class, I embarked to Woodworth with a group of enthusiastic students to study native plants and attend a native plant conference. The conference planned 6 excellent speakers Friday night and Saturday morning with a field trip on Sunday morning. Our class group planned to camp in the Kisatchie NF which is open to camp in most places. The only hitch was a pretty heavy chance of rain. We arrived early enough to find a campsite and set up before the Friday night and well before the beginning of the promised rain which started after midnight. The wet stuff continued off and on until early Saturday afternoon. We had several opportunities to botanize those woods, rub shoulders with fascinating plant/animal/fungi geeks and be influenced by several fine speakers.
1-28-18 Near Forest Hill exit off of I-49S a field full of Great Egrets! No wait, those are Snow Geese, oh wow! This is Sand Hill Crane country too, in this cold wet part of the winter, lots of action.
Idyll
Michael Haydn, Horn Concerto in D major
Sky reverberates
with the smudge of cranes
Their gabble
thaws the clumsy thickness
of winter soaked morning
From the office of my home library wall
poem by David Lee
After Reading Lucretius, I Go To The Pond
The slippery green frog
that went to his death
in the heron's pink throat
was my small brother,
and the heron
with the white plumes
like a crown on his head
who is washing now his great sword-beak
in the shining pond
is my tall thin brother.
My heart dresses in black
and dances.
Mary Oliver
Blue Horses, poems
Get out and enjoy that happy moon rise tonight. I will toast you my friends and that fine moon. Host your elders, bring them with you as you go outdoors for the adventure, oh and drag your unplugged youngsters, they will have fun.
peace love possumhugs
BT
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