17 July 2009

Natural Mandala

"Between Green Eyes..."







There seems to be some blue...

Slainte!

Cygnus

15 July 2009

"I'm Gonna Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha..!!!"

Even if I needs wait until I'm ninety, M'Lady...



Something about Blondie on my musical mind of late, so just ride it out with me...

Slainte.

Cygnus

10 July 2009

A Meandering Thought

I have this vision.

I've chosen a path, and some ways not too distant along it I seem to be achieving a high amount of success.
But( you knew that was coming, non?)...

But it isn't the path I want to be on...

I'm wondering what that might say about where I want to be...

I suppose it could contain just as much success, but... the standard of mneasurement is somehow ... different. Not so .. mainstream.

So, I guess that makes the chioce easy...

Slainte, Folks.

Cygnus

07 July 2009

Yee Freakin' Ha

I should have been quaffing Guinness at the Chieftain in San Francisco tonight.

I would have been meeting with a fellow blogger and his wife... would have been headed out tomorrow morn-- out of the city and into the redwoods, or along the sands, or kissing in a roadside rest area somewhere between Reno and Hawaii! ha!

But...

I'm not.

Irony of ironies-- the one I was to meet tonight... as gone as the one who was to carry me to said destination...

Both just as gone as "the morning found the [Winter] wind..."

I'll miss you most of all, woman...

Slainte.

Cygnus

05 July 2009

Animals in the Garden...

The Guardian Of The Gate to the Garden


and The Watcher Of The Pathway Thereunto


Mostly don't bother this strange ol' bird
("THESE kitties don't wanna eat no swan!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!")

when he lurks around their hunting ground...

The garden's slowed fruiting in the heat of high Summer--
--over 104 on the thermometer yesterday early in the afternoon-- focusing on slow, strong, vegetative growth. Come fall though, I'll be glad the new seedlings went in when they did-- the way weather is so mild her, I'll be eating okra
and peppers



and squash into mid-November or better...

No, your eyes do not deceive you, nor is there any trick of light here-- these two distinct melon colors are from the same vine:



When you plant a seed from a hybrid-grown plant, this is your result-- the very next generation's seed begin reverting to characteristics of either parent seed... interesting scientifically, and provides a variety of tastes-- granted an unpredictable variety, but variety none the less!--off of one vine!

This has been a rambling post, and my bent is that gardening is part of the Natural Magick of Mother Nature, so I don't see it as out-of-place to leave you with some images of that beautiful Bounty in progress...










Slainte, Folks!

Cygnus

04 July 2009

Ten Things

I--
SENSED today...

[Tasted]:
  • Cherries
  • Strawberries
[Saw:]
  • Frogs
  • a split-skin second-generation hybrid melon
[Heard:]
  • "Marco! " "Polo!" on the winds...
  • Running water...
[Smelled:]
  • Gasoline
  • Earth-- wet, fertile garden Earth
[Felt:]
  • Kitten fur...
  • Cold Sun-Tea on a parched tongue...
Slainte, folks...

Cygnus