Monday, September 05, 2011

We went crazy yesterday and pulled up massive plants that were taking over the yard. There are many bags/boxes/crates of yard waste on the parking strip now and denuded flower beds waiting for bulbs and leetle trees and other lovely plants like hebes. I love hebes. They are polite and flowery and they don't feel the need to effing dominate like some plants that believe they have to take over the world.

Don't get me started on bindweed. Back East where I'm from, we call bindweed morning glories and they make the most beautiful blue/purple flowers and we are kind to them (and I tried to ingest the seeds once because I thought they'd make me high-don't try this at home, please) so obnoxious bindweed with their boring white flowers and their ability to cover everything is not my friend, not now, not ever. Unless they have psychedelic properties, which they don't.

Every day a brilliant green humming bird visits my yard. Then it sits at the top of the lilac and makes it's chipping sound. Their beaks are as slender as needles. Humming birds only live for 2 years because their metabolisms are so fast and they die of heart attacks because they run so much energy. I think they are actually devas of the bird world and without them we cannot dream properly. Or at all.

2 comments:

Radish King said...

I think they are actually devas of the bird world and without them we cannot dream properly. Or at all.


OOOhhhhhhhh.
Ohhh.

This gave me all over body shivers.
xo

Marylinn Kelly said...

Maintainers of the realms, so they say, and I know it must be true. Something in volunteering, so to speak, for the high metabolism, high wire work so the rest of us can dream, seems holy. Morning glories, flowers that nap, have always been favorites. xo