yesterday
Datura
it's poisonous. It can kill you. at the least, make you crazy for a while. I tried to pull it all out when the Goats were still coming through the Yards but it has insisted and now, since i let it, Blooms. The Place here smells of Goat. The buck Goats have been active in this rain season, i think in Rut but i'm not sure because they are Nigerians and so can breed monthly, like women, but it seems there is a bi yearly time when the Bucks feel the need. So...it's stinky. Yet, this morning, above all that Goat, was the most incredibly delicately intense Fragrance of this single bloom that halted me in my tracks. Datura.
The Grand Daughter calls Tuesday eves on her way from Chico California to Sacremento...to school. She has head phones or something and i often have an echo of myself...two of me, one of her and tonight i told her about the knapsack. I knew it, that she would like this a lot, and i told her about the Inktense Pencils and the drawings and well, about the knapsack and as i knew she would, she liked it a lot. She asked if i was going to write anything on the back of the little paper drawings and i said i'd not planned to do that, because i would hopefully just recognize something of the drawing itself and that would be enough and she said yes, but what if someone was looking at them WITH you as you looked and wouldn't have YOUR words for what they were seeing, maybe having some few small words on the back, that that other person could read aloud might be meaningfull.....
There is no way that i can say the extreme Pleasure she is to me. No way.
This is not going to get me into New Mexico Magazine, for sure, but it's an experiment. I spread two bales of Sunflower stalks over the front of that part of the Oasis...to act as mulch, to keep the Kochia at bay. Now it's so obvious but in time, the dogs and the Weather will break it down as it has over along the road fence where the Native Plums are. It won't Glare. But for now, is an
experiment.
Am interested in
experiments.
