Residents in Aotearoa: Exploring a foxglove

Saturday, 20 January 2024

Exploring a foxglove

I have a very short and simple post for today. Despite the brown Christmas that many of you experienced this year, I thought perhaps a bit of color will be welcome during your white January. Then, I realized that i was starting with a white flower. Oh well.

I'm afraid that this post is so short, it shouldn't really count as a post at all. I'll try to do better in the future. -djf

2 comments:

Dianne26 January 2024 at 13:41
Short but sweet! Love the foxgloves! You even caught a busy bee - or is that a wasp? I wonder why the flowers evolved with all the spots on the bottom petal. and I also wonder if foxes ever wore gloves?

hmmm...
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My deer blind, a place outside of time and space.

This is a picture of my deer hunting blind. I built in in 1975 and used it until about 2010. I'm publishing this picture and text on November 15 of 2022, the opening day of Michigan's rifle deer hunting season, to remember all the years I spent sitting there and occasionally harvesting a deer. I think that the meat I provided for my family was only a small portion of the benefit I received from hunting in this manner. Of greater value to me was the time I spent alone, watching the forest and its many components interact. I had time to unwind from the stresses of my work, to appreciate our world, and even sometimes to pray. That blind was a refuge to me. It was cozy, and comfortable and I spent much more time filming the activities of not only deer, but bears, racoons, turkeys, squirrels, hawks, and once, even a snowy owl, than I did harvesting deer. May I suggest to all of you that you try to find some time and a place, where you can be alone, and where you can ponder and appreciate your life and your place in the world. It does a body good. -djf