Teach Your Children Young

You can't start them early enough. If it was not winter the hose would be running. It is quite clear that even well before 15 months of age a child (young Homo sapien)will mimic a parent or at least try persistently even when they can not stand for very long. I doubt she is having a Zen-like experience though she is trying to hand-water. Teach your children well. She will be surprised when the rain brings the winter rye up all of a sudden

Symbiosis at my feet

Part of the wonder of living in a forested area is the things I find on the forest floor. Certainly along with the mushrooms for interest there are the lichens a sybiotic complex relationship between a fungus and an algae. I know virtually nothing about the specifics of the species of each . Which is to say I could not take a gander even under a microsocpe and tell you what is what. But it all really does not matter to me. Yesterday was dry but today the dusty trail through the woods was wet after the rain and the lichens which had been a pale tan were now vivid brown-- different looking as they lapped up the water invisibly to me.

I am breaking the rules I set for myself when I decided to do blogs related to my book. I thought i would use the photos from the book and only the photos from the book. As a novice to this whole process of blogging and what readers expect , I have decided to break my own rules. As a consequence dustyroads is going to look at these things we see around our neighborhood, roads, yards and such that might be taken for granted. Maybe these are initially perceived that way because they are not planned in the way so many of us work to achieve in our gardens. So look for RAMBLINGS, I AM A GREAT RAMBLER IF NOT AN ACCOMPLISHED WRITER. AND LOOK FOR PHOTOS THAT INITIALLY YOU MIGHT HAVE, OR EVEN I INITIALLY TOSSED ASIDE. But these are back for re-examination.