Forgottenman posted a video of Beau talking about a new report on climate change on his blog last night, and I think this video is probably the most important thing anyone could post right now. I hope you will watch it over on FM’s blog HERE.
Little Miracles
This plant is of special significance to me because it grew in profusion from hanging baskets on my porch in Boulder Creek, Ca. For the eighteen years I’ve been in Mexico, I have from time to time looked for it in viveros because it has such a special significance to me, but if it has been there, I’ve overlooked it. But a few days ago, as I was coming back from my front gate, I noticed this bloom growing from a pot. I have no idea how it got there, but it is the Queen’s Tears Bromeliad I’ve been looking for for eighteen years. Little miracles occur every day. What a pleasure that sometimes they make themselves so obvious that we can’t overlook them.
For Cee’s FOTD
Hard Truths from a Best Friend
I must derail the rhapsody you’ve treated us to recently
about the new man in your life who’s treated you so decently.
Flowers or candy every date, then wining, dining, dancing.
No man in history ever excelled him in romancing.
It’s been such a whirlwind romance, developing so fast,
but I fear this sudden summer storm is one that will not last.
You may protest I’m flaky and I don’t know what I’m saying,
but I would stake my life on the fact that he’s not staying.
What argument is plausible? What words can I relate
to convince you that your lover is a reprobate?
As your best friend, I must reveal this great love of your life
will fade away on the return of his vacationing wife!
Prompt words today are flaky, rhapsody, derail, plausible and fast.
Although for the past two years my 18-year-old cat Annie has refused to stir outside the house, she has recently become very enamored of lying below the low light positioned to light up the two stairs that lead up from my bedroom to the hall. I guess it is the next best thing to sunlight! Obviously, the stack of books I had laid there to remind me to take them up to the living room bookcase served as no hindrance to her comfort. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
For Nancy’s A Photo a Week Challenge.
Picky Eaters
On this Halloween,
All the zombies hunger for
only Baby Ruth.
For the Halloween Haikai Challenge
I found these delicious Halloween-inspired treats at a chocolate shop in Sheridan, Wyoming. Just the thing for those little zombies who come begging at your door!
For the 31 Day Halloween Challenge.
And they are still refusing to Inoculate children against flu in the camps:
Blind Date
I’m idling at the stop light, irate at the delay.
Though your chatter is innocuous, my nerves begin to fray.
As I gun the engine, the car leaps from the ground.
Is there a single subject on which you won’t expound?
Every single statement hits another nerve
as the tires chew the road up and navigate the curve.
I finally reach your neighborhood and my spirits soar.
We say good night and I am gone before you reach your door.
As blind dates go, this was the worse. For sure, there’ll be no other.
Never again will I accept a line-up by my mother!
