Buckeye trees are in bloom with their long white flowered filled stalks. The wonderful cool breeze is pushing them around. They dance in perfectly choreographed waves, softly brushing against their invisible air partner. I fall in love with them all over again. And then they envelope me with the sweet scent from flower center. IContinue reading “sweet swaying in the breeze…”
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Wildflowers Keep Coming…
The lovely cool rainstorms we have been having, are keeping the wildflowers very happy. Here are photos from a walk up the hills just at my back door. We’ll start with a rainbow that shows you the hills that are welcome for walking. _________________________________________________________ more of the foot paths and views from the BLM landContinue reading “Wildflowers Keep Coming…”
Trees who wait…
There is a kind of lull here, some of the trees are dropping leaves, the Chinese pistache trees planted almost 30 years ago. I’ve just learned that the female trees have red berries that turn blue, and so the tree that was planted by birds or winds or serendipity at the edge of cottage deckContinue reading “Trees who wait…”
When did you fall in love with nature?
When did you first fall in love with nature? This question landed on me, as a surprising imperative (posed by keynote speaker, John Muir Laws), in a crowded banquet room in Sacramento, where 800 “plant people” had gathered for the 2009 Conservation Conference of the California Native Plant Society. This happened two weeks ago….. InContinue reading “When did you fall in love with nature?”
Lupines in the Rain
…broken open by the essence of broken-open-ness itself…
♥ Cort Cottage 