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Did a hike today

In homage to Mother Earth

Boy, do my feet hurt

and

Touch and Love the Earth

She bore us and sustains us

Eternal treasure

I lift up mine eyes

Brilliance lost in light of day

As Spring and Life soars

A Western Bluebird

Perched on a lawn ornament

Lift up my spirits

Quads and a dirt bike

riding on fragile meadow

Be good land stewards

Beautiful bird swims

Red eye searches for a mate

Yearns to courtship dance

Today is Easter

Am I supposed to hide eggs?

I think I’ll eat grass

or

Today is Easter

Jesus, what’s going on here?

Kids think I hide eggs

Needing a long rest

Hiding of eggs is hard work

Peace. Love. Eggs not bombs

Plants take care of us

bestowing food, oxygen

and so much beauty.

“In some Native languages, the term for plants translates to ‘those who take care of us’.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer,  Braiding Sweetgrass

General Sherman

The largest tree by volume

In winter beauty

This is the General Sherman giant sequoia tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. It is estimated to be around 2,200 to 2,700 years old…….One of the most amazing things to me is that up there….. in the tips of those massive branches and at the very top of the tree….way up high….. are some really really badass apical meristem cells. They have kept on undergoing cell division (mitosis) day after day for 2,200 to 2,700 years!!! That is truly mind-blowing, when you think of it.

Weathered old bull’s face

Resembles a Minotaur

Not Greek. African