Sound and motion

I loved listening to those grasses on my last trip up to Wisconsin. We would stop and pull over onto the side of any country road and immerse ourselves in the sounds of the wind blowing through the reeds. 

At first, it was so quiet out there but soon, I realized, that it was really noisy with the rustling of the grasses, the crickets, the birds and the occasional car that would roar by. We had more than one puzzle-faced farmer look at us taking pictures of ‘nothing’.

—Susan

Enough already!

That sounds close to blasphemy coming from a gardener. You know that we appreciate every drop we receive but this is bordering on ‘honey, is the ark ready?’ The birdbaths have been overflowing for days now. The puddles are forming into bigger expanses that might, just might, become a lake before this rain is finished. The basement is damp—even the cats are damp. And the usually tall and proud Feather Reed grasses have bent their plumes over in the saddest of ways. I think that just about sums up this weekend of water at my place. Hope is Obama and hope is that tomorrow is a sunny day.

—Susan

Just plain cool

I came across a website that has some time lapse video of the growth of seeds and plants such as corn and mushrooms. The video short of the growth of the Amanita mushroom is right out of science fiction with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland thrown in. Take a look at www.hubpages.com/hub/gardening-planting-seeds. Nature is stranger than fiction!

Video of grasses is still on my short list...

-Susan