Traveling around in #SanJose and #NearbyToSanJose at 825 mph on our spinning planet.
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Reflections in Cottonwood Lake in Hellyer County Park. From this one spot, within 3 minutes of standing still, I saw fish jumping, three dragonflys, a little baby duck with a parent duck, and two small birds, all come to within ten feet of where I stood under a tree along the water. And then I watched this reflection in the lake for a while.
These are the palms of a smallish palm tree, each palm being about three feet across. I find the repeating pattern in nature appealing.
This could have been a boring cinder block restroom building but an artist made it so much more interesting. This is at Parque De La Raza Disc Golf Course along the Coyote Creek in San Jose.
I only recently began gardening. I have focused on native and drought tolerant plants with pretty flowers and, or, smells. I never previously considered food. With the months of shelter in place, however, food has been growing on our property which has been a delight for several reasons.
But the surprise reason for me has been the flowers. I had never thought about food plants and their flowers before. The flowers are wonderful! There are big bold yellow flowers for zucchini and pumpkin, little fairy like wands for green onion, the smallest yellow flowers for tomato, and these wonderful pictured above flowers for arugula, to name a few. The arugula flower is amazing. Thoughts inspired for me by this flower: the petals appear to have a stained glass window image of a white flower in each petal, it all somehow looks both animal and plant similar to how a butterfly looks almost animal and plant, overall it makes me think of a biological satellite spinning through the atmosphere above my yard.
It turns out a flower garden can provide food for bees, birds, and humans when it is a vegetable garden. Food for bodies and for contemplation. Pretty amazing what grows from earth.
The brightest bird sitting in the tree.
How long has this wooden fence post been standing that it has eroded so?
