if you double click you can see 3 spindly grape vines. They were from the sale table at Home Depot mid summer last year. So, planted late. After getting their vines a little walked on and Goat chewed. They then were given water. Diligently. And also benefiting from the water, the Vetch which became luxuriant and mesmerized us with its tiny orchid like blooms. As it went and at the end of summer, the grapes had disappeared. Then, all winter. Under dried Vetch vines. Spring. but....Rattlesnake season down there. Hesitance.
Alyssia Emrie and i went down yesterday and made our sounds of Presence, just in case, and with our hands cleared away the matted Vetch. Lo and Behold....Grapes. Never pruned as grapes like to be, this one wandering one trailing vine far from it's plant of origin, but.....Grapes. They all made it. Better, more knowledgable and conscientious care should have and could have been taken. But they made it. Success or Failure?
once again, we let the A yard meadow go wild. Because of beings like these. For "Defensible Space", a term in much use in Fire Prone lands, that should not happen. Success (wild flowers) failure....
the Hydrangea, given to Daughter Jenny by her son for last year's Mother's Day. Planted but subsequently eaten to a nub by Goats. Dug up and repotted. Sitting in pot through summer, fall , winter and spring. Down at Campsite A. No one was clear about where to plant it. Yesterday (and today) it sits in the pot and developes it's first bloom. S or F.
and a single chicken. We began with 4. One seemed to die of natural causes. Two, probably Tay. One. People don't have a single chicken. We do. We can't decide whether to get more. How to deal with more. Chicken Limbo. But we have an extraordinary Chicken. one more example of S or F.
These are just small examples of many things here on this Hill where what was Planned and Imagined didn't quite happen. There is sensitivity to this as to why. Back at the other home in New Mexico, the Place with the Raft, similar things. Things not working out. Other cases of S or F., mostly F. and i was going to write a lot of thoughts about all this yesterday....i had a lot of thoughts, but as i was uploading these pics here, successfully, today....., a very INTENSE Electrical Storm. HAIL. The phone bleating flash flood warnings. BIG STORM. and now its passed through and a gentle rain and i think...what does it matter. We do what we can as we go. We do what we can as we go. OK.
May is the month of reckoning. The last day of it, the time of Turning to Just Go. Once again, doing what we can. Whatever that means to many varied sensitivities.
