mumma yaga

 August 22, 24 Saturday saw a wonderful rainstorm that flooded the Mimico Creek. These photos are from the Eden Valley park.The creek was up over the banks and covering the paths.  Sunday saw more rain and exciting skies.  It has been a good year for the rabbits. I see them everywhere. Antennae on a tree?  ***** A year has passed since K was taken to the hospital for his broken hip. Enough. We will be well. We return to the vineyard in Quebec this week for Rain's birthday and the annual Jungle Weed party at the farm.  Moon almost full - was delighted to catch it between clouds and trees. Mumma Yaga

     August 19, 2024 The cows belong to the farmer at our corner. They are brought up to graze from time to time. They are taken down the road to Rain's farm, too. Community. The smoke map does not show the green mountains' true situation. The smoke settles into the valleys for many days it seems. We have not properly seen the distant windmills to the south in over a week. being higher up here, we may be out of the worst, but across the Missisquoi valley at about our level the haze sits unmoving.  Even the dragon, (the hill above the barn), is hazy, and all the mountains beyond him gone. ***** I have been drawn into the material world of poverty and want, of the rich living on the toils of the poor, of the power in wealth. This, even as I benefit from wealth and power, to live here, to eat, to have a car, a phone, a computer. I am weighed down with the sadness of so much of humanity living difficult lives, even more by the loved ones whose struggles I watch, knowing that money