Full Time Moon
FULL TIME MOON
3-21-14 Thursday, oops! Vernal Equinox, celebrate life!
This full moon straddles two days so it rises Wednesday night and Thursday night. So it looks like I am late, go figger! My iPhone app says that today will be fuller but who can tell? Not I.
I call this one "Full Time Moon" because at this time of my life, I have been blessed with the gift of time. Each day seems so elongated and yet so full. This is a much more relaxed way to live and work. Gratitude, y'all. AND with this online class I'm taking, to be certified to teach online, I am being stretched y'all! Y'all, I have never taken an online class, I can barely open my email!
Dave L say it was pretty fine last night (Tuesday)...did he say on the Mediterranean Sea...Naw, caint be, he an ol Texas farm boy, whut's he doin thar?!
Sister Marie has a birthday on a full moon cycle and the equinox, pretty good girl!
How about a Vernal Equinox poem from Margaret?
2-24-19 I dragged out my barrel pit early today, it was built by Babe in St Martinville, oil barrel painted oil field silver. When I walked over to the coop to release the girls to do their work for the day and I noted wafer shaped elm seed on that bare spot in the shade. Wind from N and those elms I planted are to the S so wind direction is all wrong, what is up with that? It looks like there is a volunteer American Elm growing in the 40 year old tree line to the north. Mystery solved. And a darned fine one at that!
I fired up the old pit and BBQ-ed 4 fryers and some nice Legnon's smoked sausage for the gang who journeyed over to celebrate Mimi's birthday next Tuesday. We even drug Ol Pawpaw out of his chair in front of the TV. Happy Birthday Mimi!
Of course there were a few comments about the meat was a little dry but but in my defense I'll say at least it was not burned like the Olde Smokey times of the olden days! AND I'll say part of the overdoneness is because my eldest, Rachel, is a dietician and I have a fear of under cooked chicken poisoning us all.
For Mimi my cat and coffee girl on her birthday, a found poem from Elisabeth Ellington's Slice of Life. I call Paula the cat woman!
I'm in Love
I'm in love
with the moon
over snow-covered hills
white,
then yellow.
I'm in love
with clouds
before sunrise
Venus bright
in the East.
I'm in love
with a field of pronghorn
lying in the snow
legs curled beneath
for warmth.
I'm even in love
with this open parking spot
right in front
of my favorite coffee shop.
I'm in love
with warm fires,
curled up cats,
and always
every day
with my mug
of coffee.
what do you love today?
3-4-19 My Red Buckeye is another gift in my life. No way as fine a Charles Allen's massive tree but it is a grand a one as I've seen in any landscape. 10' high by 15' wide, really nice. The texture, the red flowers, and the may fun seeds, early to foliate and early to defoliate, all are these features are so very special. Beth gave me some Buckeye seeds from way up there in Nort Louisiana several years ago, perhaps from Rector's place. The biggest Buckeye seed I have ever seen. I gave many away but planted one in a prime spot in the yard. Its vigorous growth has been interrupted by a fallen pecan limb but she is growing back again. I noted that the pretty tree in my yard has what I consider the normal 5 leaflets but Beth's (Rector's) tree has 7. I wonder how much variability there is in this plant as far as leaflet number goes?
Beth probably cringed when she heard her name mentioned saying "oh shoots here comes another Oil Train story". Nope, I quit, I was told enough was enough!
From A. Hope Jahren, a Geobiologist, author of "Lab Girl" and "The Secret Life of Plants", in her New York Times opinion editorial on the death of W. S. Merlin. Merlin planted trees for 42 years at his home in the Peahi Valley on Maui. Here is one of his poems.
W. S. Merwin poem:
PLACE
On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree
what for
not the fruit
the tree that bears the fruit
is not the one that was planted
I want the tree that stands
in the earth for the first time
with the sun already
going down
and the water
touching its roots
in the earth full of the dead
and the clouds passing
one by one
over its leaves
Hope Jahren is not too shabby a writer in her own right, in earlier times I have really enjoyed her writing.
3-17-19 Cool days after warming cloudy trend then 1.25" rain last night. This is more spring like. Gratitude.
3-19-19 Garrie L, no relation to Dave L, was so excited to show me his giant Red Buckeye, may be a state champion or even better. 40'X40' with a circumference at breast high of 43+"! Glorious sunny day to show off a big tree. Moon show last night was the best.
Y'all go out and enjoy the show!
David Orr, Environmentaist quote:
"The planet does not need more successful
people. The planet needs desperately more peacemakers,
healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It
needs people with moral courage willing to join the
struggle to make the world habitable and humane, and
these qualities have little to do with success as our
culture defines it."
oh wow, thanks David Orr!
peace love possumhugs
BT
3-21-14 Thursday, oops! Vernal Equinox, celebrate life!
This full moon straddles two days so it rises Wednesday night and Thursday night. So it looks like I am late, go figger! My iPhone app says that today will be fuller but who can tell? Not I.
I call this one "Full Time Moon" because at this time of my life, I have been blessed with the gift of time. Each day seems so elongated and yet so full. This is a much more relaxed way to live and work. Gratitude, y'all. AND with this online class I'm taking, to be certified to teach online, I am being stretched y'all! Y'all, I have never taken an online class, I can barely open my email!
Dave L say it was pretty fine last night (Tuesday)...did he say on the Mediterranean Sea...Naw, caint be, he an ol Texas farm boy, whut's he doin thar?!
Sister Marie has a birthday on a full moon cycle and the equinox, pretty good girl!
How about a Vernal Equinox poem from Margaret?
Vernal Equinox on the Bayou Teche.
Begin with the source,
Lore told again and again,
ancient words from native people--
Teche,
Tesh,
SnakeWater runs through it
brown bayou mud
bound by an ever-eroding shore
Teche,
Tesh,
Snake.Sun sets on vernal equinox
sends rays of light across
cypress trees reflected in still water
Teche,
Tesh,
Snake.--Margaret Simon
2-24-19 I dragged out my barrel pit early today, it was built by Babe in St Martinville, oil barrel painted oil field silver. When I walked over to the coop to release the girls to do their work for the day and I noted wafer shaped elm seed on that bare spot in the shade. Wind from N and those elms I planted are to the S so wind direction is all wrong, what is up with that? It looks like there is a volunteer American Elm growing in the 40 year old tree line to the north. Mystery solved. And a darned fine one at that!
I fired up the old pit and BBQ-ed 4 fryers and some nice Legnon's smoked sausage for the gang who journeyed over to celebrate Mimi's birthday next Tuesday. We even drug Ol Pawpaw out of his chair in front of the TV. Happy Birthday Mimi!
Of course there were a few comments about the meat was a little dry but but in my defense I'll say at least it was not burned like the Olde Smokey times of the olden days! AND I'll say part of the overdoneness is because my eldest, Rachel, is a dietician and I have a fear of under cooked chicken poisoning us all.
For Mimi my cat and coffee girl on her birthday, a found poem from Elisabeth Ellington's Slice of Life. I call Paula the cat woman!
I'm in Love
I'm in love
with the moon
over snow-covered hills
white,
then yellow.
I'm in love
with clouds
before sunrise
Venus bright
in the East.
I'm in love
with a field of pronghorn
lying in the snow
legs curled beneath
for warmth.
I'm even in love
with this open parking spot
right in front
of my favorite coffee shop.
I'm in love
with warm fires,
curled up cats,
and always
every day
with my mug
of coffee.
what do you love today?
3-4-19 My Red Buckeye is another gift in my life. No way as fine a Charles Allen's massive tree but it is a grand a one as I've seen in any landscape. 10' high by 15' wide, really nice. The texture, the red flowers, and the may fun seeds, early to foliate and early to defoliate, all are these features are so very special. Beth gave me some Buckeye seeds from way up there in Nort Louisiana several years ago, perhaps from Rector's place. The biggest Buckeye seed I have ever seen. I gave many away but planted one in a prime spot in the yard. Its vigorous growth has been interrupted by a fallen pecan limb but she is growing back again. I noted that the pretty tree in my yard has what I consider the normal 5 leaflets but Beth's (Rector's) tree has 7. I wonder how much variability there is in this plant as far as leaflet number goes?
Beth probably cringed when she heard her name mentioned saying "oh shoots here comes another Oil Train story". Nope, I quit, I was told enough was enough!
From A. Hope Jahren, a Geobiologist, author of "Lab Girl" and "The Secret Life of Plants", in her New York Times opinion editorial on the death of W. S. Merlin. Merlin planted trees for 42 years at his home in the Peahi Valley on Maui. Here is one of his poems.
W. S. Merwin poem:
PLACE
On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree
what for
not the fruit
the tree that bears the fruit
is not the one that was planted
I want the tree that stands
in the earth for the first time
with the sun already
going down
and the water
touching its roots
in the earth full of the dead
and the clouds passing
one by one
over its leaves
Hope Jahren is not too shabby a writer in her own right, in earlier times I have really enjoyed her writing.
3-17-19 Cool days after warming cloudy trend then 1.25" rain last night. This is more spring like. Gratitude.
3-19-19 Garrie L, no relation to Dave L, was so excited to show me his giant Red Buckeye, may be a state champion or even better. 40'X40' with a circumference at breast high of 43+"! Glorious sunny day to show off a big tree. Moon show last night was the best.
Y'all go out and enjoy the show!
David Orr, Environmentaist quote:
"The planet does not need more successful
people. The planet needs desperately more peacemakers,
healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It
needs people with moral courage willing to join the
struggle to make the world habitable and humane, and
these qualities have little to do with success as our
culture defines it."
oh wow, thanks David Orr!
peace love possumhugs
BT
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