every day is a good day
It’s just a flowering plum tree, only it’s not just that. For ten years we’ve watched a flowering plum tree with dark burgundy leaves grow in our backyard. Each spring it delights with pink clouds of plum blossoms. Today, we noticed that for the first time, the tree is loaded with cherry-sized, sweet plums. We picked seven pounds of them this afternoon, and we barely made a dent on the fruit hanging in the tree.
Nothing is just a whatever. It’s always something much more.
Wake up early enough and you can catch the poppies still sleeping. It’s kind of like sneaking up on your lover when they are snoozing. But don’t get too excited. The poppies won’t jump when you say, “Boo!” They’ll just go right on snoozing.
As the sun rises, the poppies will slowly wake up. They are quite the flirts. They don’t bother putting on any panties to cover up their private parts. When they are fully awake, they want everyone to see what they’ve got. Do they remind you of anyone you know?
We all want to be comfortable. For Rusty, that means a whole body scratch against a concrete block.
For Svenda, comfort is digging a big hole in the garden and sitting in it. It’s cool in the hole. Chickens enjoy finding cool spots for their afternoon siestas. Nothing beats a deep hole in the shade.
What is about the outdoors that is so full of happiness? What is about a hen sitting on eggs that makes you smile?
What is it about fuzzy, blue flowers that make you giggle? What is it about a curious hen that makes you laugh?
Why do our eyes light up when we see bees gathering pollen on flowers? Why do we find it so soothing to lie down and look up at the flowers?
Why does the fresh scent of mint flowers calm our minds? Why does the sight of ripening plums and apples fill us with such hope? Why? Why? Why? The answer is outdoors where happiness is.
It’s mid July. Time for the garden to go crazy. What was the big deal with the LSD craze in the 1950s and 60s?
During a 15-year period beginning in 1950, research on LSD and other hallucinogens generated over 1000 scientific papers, several dozen books, and 6 international conferences, and LSD was prescribed as treatment to over 40,000 patients (History of lysergic acid diethylamide).
All you have to do to get your mind blown is lie down between rows of towering corn laced with pumpkin and bean vines. There’s enough color and fantastical shapes and crawling creatures to entertain you all day. Pea and bean blossoms tantalize with their exquisite whites and sensual folds. Arugula blossoms become swarms of butterflies in the breeze. Purple splashed magentaspreen seduces with its deep purples.
Nothing compares to the crazy poppies. Is it any wonder that the Summerians figured out more than 5,000 years ago that this was the joy plant?
