From Africa With Love

Spring starts March 19th
Like it’s a thing
Say the African daisies

Cover Photo: Ramona looking eastward. This patch of non-indigenous daisies has become a source of colorful joy.

More:

In a nearby deep ravine flows runoff from several days of rain. Seasonal creeks may last a week after a good soaking. Multiple weeks will create flows up to a month.This year, we returned to typical scarcity for water.

All phone candids

Simplicity

There is a deep desire
A soul’s delightful struggle
Deciding which calms deeper

The crashing of waves
Power, translated through the sand
The heartbeat of God

A peaceful sunset
The day
Set to slumber

Chopin’s concerto
Beethoven’s sonata
Musical manipulation of the heart

I cannot fix the world.

Field Notes #4

Butterflies do not live to ninety-five
Nor do they fly at ninety-five (mph)
But the day was ninety-five (degrees Fahrenheit)

And this poor little cabbage white needed five minutes rest in the shade in our driveway.
Rest my heterochromatic friend!

In other old news: Phacelia cicutaria. May 2023