Well, it is around eleven o'clock and I just took a nature walk and it is unbelievably quiet around here in contrast to what it was early in the morning. Rain clouds threaten and the kids at the high school down the block must be listening to teachers going over classroom management routines. That's what I would have been doing two years ago on the first day back to school and possibly having a fun activity to make them feel that they are glad to be back which normally they are anyway. Around seven in the morning buses and teachers' vehicles start filing down the road that officials promised would not be used for anything but delivery trucks and cafeteria workers. It is no surprise that this is the situation and I have no real problem with it. I am surprised that some of those teachers or other workers have those "boom" cars or other sound systems that allows for loud music to blare. They are lucky because the old lady at the intersection is on hospice care and I always liked that loud bass sound. Also, quite a few just have bad mufflers on what I suppose are trucks. Since students are not allowed to drive to school, I am assuming these vehicles are driven by staff members. I want to keep this blog going so I think I am going to focus on my nature walks around the yard, activities at the high school, and my occasional ventures away from home. I plan on doing another blog using all the videos and photos I took during the building of the high school. But for now here are my nature walk photos:
Watching Rose as Rose watches me with reflections of the red impatiens flowers. Mee--erow---ally like you :
Hoping that this honeybee is of the species that is battling to make a comeback around here:
Last of the raspberries:
A mushroom with camouflage:
Yeah, this is nature!!! Human Nature! (on the road to the school)
Last hibiscus---I will bring the plant inside this winter and it will go into shock and drop half of the leaves. My sister brings an eight-foot+ tree hibiscus into her small kitchen for the winter:
Bumblebee on a succulent flower--a type of sedum.
Note the bright orange pollen bag bag. Probably from the dahlias:
Should have taken a photo when the garden was at its peak but here it is after hurricane Irene:
Just a good representation of your typical white mushroom:
This one shows how the earth was pushed up by the strength of this mushroom. But I can squish it down to nothing with one step! What laws of physics are in play here?
Bowling bowl in garden:
Green bowling bowl in garden:
Butterfly
Beautiful fungi:
Comical fungi:
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