Secrets abound on a farm hidden and waiting unendiing discoveries inside soil and seeds are diamonds precious What comes naturally is to simply walk on soil unknowing, uncaring its value yet life depends upon it no one could live without it A particle of this and that chemistry and physics and mystery, no mysteries! Bacteria, [...]
Long day Good day The sun came up in all its Glory Resplendent! Awesome! Power full! No way to stop it, it just keeps rising! It's arc complete, work done for the day it sank out west slowly, slowly, then ever more quickly and gone... The evening quieted the winds so more and more softly, [...]
What comes naturally is 'going with the flow' no need for a sail just put your boat out into the current Lots of company floating along life is but a party! A continual celebration down a lazy river of days, months, and years. But there's some folks who set their sails pull out the oars [...]
Streaming, steaming to Chicago Illinois farm folks hit the roads pouring from their farms all across the state Cairo to Galena Danville over to Quincy Champaign, Decatur, Springfield, some 2,000 arrive in the Loop Indeed it's Science modern agriculture education on the move botany, biology, genetics animal science, food science soil science, medicine setting [...]
A fascinating plant Maize, or corn The tassel high on top in its time throwing pollen Light but loaded, floating down to... Just in time the silks Little tubes in waiting each to carry a single pollen grain in to a special place an egg in waiting The two become one, and a kernal [...]
Dark plus 2 I walked to my nearby truck the prairie was quiet after a day of roaring harvest machines The sky was bright with stars more than I could ever count what a display of span so grand I stood held fast I was standing on the soil in a field my great [...]
A world of color and shape and texture and size Brought from catalogs from other gardens from other places Brought together in fine imagination becoming reality as paintings are painted master gardeners sculpt in plants Beds and borders raised and sunken terraced and potted arranged just so the creations bloom and shower color and [...]
Evening in the city my experienced friend the driver Heather and I in her BMW speed along brake hard and speed again the sea of cars and people ebb and flow at rush hour To the Reception! People from around the world a mix of winners and judges and The Company Interesting and fascinating [...]
It hits hard the empty chair staring at us A ghost sits there partially filling memories reaching out to us A brave person sits next going on, keeping on carrying two new burdens One the missing touches, embraces that link humans heart to heart The other a thousand things the missing one did, would [...]
Incongruous you are thinking perhaps but oh, they are linked! Think 'Price!', for a start and the Chicago Board of Trade World leader bringing willing seller and willing buyer together to find a price to sell, a price to buy today and tomorrows too! We're planted deep in the prairie soils luxuriating in green growing [...]