(all photos ©Sometimes, 2018)
A thing of beauty is a joy forever…John Keats
Category: Nature
Here’s the opossum, right on cue
serenity in a shallow brook?
No more kittens…but here’s a possibility
The latest kittens from next door. Barbara has been featured in this blog before…she is a rough and tumble lady that appeared from thin air long ago; she lived in the now defunct greenhouse across the road. Not sure where she lives now, she is very illusive.
[all photos ©Sometimes, 2018}
bringing down the trees: a study in accuracy & precision
I spent most of three days watching the clearing of a 1.8 acre lot which I sold recently. The operation was both sad and fascinating. The company that did this work was efficient, the crews worked magnificently together, and the huge trees fell precisely as intended…where they had stood for a hundred years. (All photos are my own.)
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A walk with Sister down back…
The closing date is near, and soon most of these blooming trees in the photos will be gone forever. Not all…the part being sold is about 1.7 acres, but the remaining six or so acres will remain family property. Here are a few of the phots I took the other day when Sister (my calico house cat) and I took a walk to the back, where the highway fence marks the edge of our land. Thanks for tagging along!
before mowing
Poppies & lilacs & rhododendrons O My!
A Rose in the Rain
©Sometimes,2018
ambiguity about volcano
CNN this morning had some breathtaking coverage of the erupting volcano in Hawaii. The headline or titles on the screen read something like this:
Hawaiian Residents prepare to evacuate
Hawaiian Residents listen for eruptions and dodge lava bombs.
Hmmm, this just begs the question… is it only Residents of Hawaii that are worried about the Volcano? What about tourists and non-residents that live there? Non-Hawaiian residents?
A walk with Peggy through nature’s beauty…and the heavy hand of man.
Here are some shots from my walk to the back of our property. The flowers and trees are glorious this time of year, but as is obvious from some of these pictures the church clean-up crew did not seem to notice. They wanted to trim the foliage along the highway fence so traffic could see their church. We refused them access from our side of the fence, but the highway side was pretty well vulnerable to attack…the fence cut and some kind of heavy destruction equipment used to “trim” the trees. Reminds me for all the world of a small scale Mt. St. Helens after the volcano.
Who Doesn’t Fancy Pansies?
Our first visit to our favorite greenhouse today. We ordered some red Million Bells, and some Lantana…for a couple of weeks from now. Meanwhile, some other plants are blooming…Rhododendron, and some Azaleas. Daffodils are done, Tulips still around but ready to make their exit shortly. So here are some Pansy Photos…
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Parrot Tulips early May pop-ups
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Nature’s imagination
Nature keeps busy all right, ever creating whimsical and intriguing things.
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Direct Line…reblogging myself again
Here is another of my early poems from back in the day (Oct. 2015 in this case…
Redundancy intended.)
Direct Line
The Moon, far away as it is bright
dims the brighter light of the stars
My eye sight follows the path of that light
passing the light-years between
Knowing full well the facts of the Moonlight
reflecting the light of the Sun,
it nevertheless leads me to imagine
that the Moon makes its own light from within.
Even if Galileo himself, who charted the Sun,
were to explain with patience and tact
I still would ignore him and blissfully say:
“Please don’t confuse me with facts.”
©Sometimes, 2015
Toby in a ball
Toby is a tabby cat, he’s graced these pages before. He is our oldest cat, or one of them, as his sister Pearl is the same age. They are about 12 years old. (©Sometimes, 2018)
