Just one opened first, a beautiful dark purple poppy to give the Bees something extra.
The next day, loads bloomed and by the next day or two mostly gone. But they’re staggered and keep coming so hopefully a bit of brightness for longer.
(c) K Wicks
It’s do as I say
Not as I do
One rule for them
And another for you
The more you agree
The more piss they take
Giving weak reason
Which are revealed fake
Those calling the play
Are infected with rot
With no moral compass
Just plugging the shot
Each one in turn
Is showing their hand
And what is quite clear
Is they don’t understand
Love or truth
Or having a soul
They don’t want equal
They want full control
Money and power
Is the game they play
Compassion is not
Something they
Have the ability
To really employ
Their ultimate goal
Is to destroy
~
Or it would appear that way…
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
With letting everything just grow, you get to see what things do given the chance. Strawberries will grow and spread and are very efficient at this. And because they are so pretty, attract lots of bugs and have fruit at the end of it, why wouldn’t you let them. I may regret saying that when they fully take over, but I will scale some plants back a bit now to make light and room for others.
This box has all sorts going on in it, winter jasmine, parsley, rosemary and lots of trailing wild strawberries. I added a few poppies where they were getting crowded in my planters, and it rusn out the potatoes I grew in this box last year hadn’t all been dug up. So I have potatoes in both boxes now.
It seems I did have a pink strawberry flower plant left going amongst the others. These flowers only lasted a couple of days before they were munched!
The berries have begun to ripen 🙂
(c) K Wicks
It was dark with a huge cloud just handing around and a few stars. It was nice.
(c) K Wicks
I decided to let everything just grow this year and be very minimal with weeding. Nature needs all the help it can get. It’s also making me more interested in what everything is and I’m learning about each plant as it grows and flowers. Willowherb seems to cater for many insects and has super pretty little pink/purple flowers. Also the leafcutter bees have favoured this plant for cutting small holes in the leaves – making me think that’s the reason I haven’t seen a leafcutter bee before, because I kept getting rid of their favourite plant!
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I’m still trying to make time for a bit of painting, and hope I have the inclination when I do. I want to paint nature, I’m just not very good. So thought if I set myself some goals and tasks, I could improve. Without copying an idea, I just tried to paint something. Perspective is one of my issues so I am working on that. Not great, but getting a bit better.
I am still not used to the consistency of the paint, how to work it, which brush to use and many other things. And by only putting a bit of time aside on weekends, it is slow progress. I am hoping to be able to do some more this weekend.
(c) K Wicks
Another first and a very exciting one. I had just found my pink strawberry plant was flowering, hidden among other strawberries and the loganberries. With a fuchsia plant and wildflowers too. As I was trying to get enough sunlight in for a shot, a bee came and landed on the willowherb, cut a section of leaf and left again. I was really surprised. I waited and it came back, took another section and left again, disappearing into the budleia and loganberry bush.
It took a few seconds and once it left again I could see that bee had been a bee had visited a number of times. I haven’t ever noticed holes like that before and realise I have previously pulled these up as weeds before they got to be this pretty and useful! Letting everything grow this year has made a big difference.
(c) K Wicks
I find it odd
Where we’ve arrived
Insidious
And so contrived
But here we are
The goal seems set
To take our freedom
And better yet
They want you to
Feel it’s right
To give them your life
Without a fight
And then expect
Your fellow man
To give up his life
And do what he can
But you and yours
You should protect
And of strangers
Should not expect
To follow orders
Do as your told
But have a thought
And be most bold
Because from this
If we want to live
We have to question
The narrative
~
It’s normal to question that which appears as a lie
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
Some people really are thinking differently to you.
Never have we been more aware of this.
But did you ever stop to ask yourself why?
It turns out it’s not just you’re not on the same page, you aren’t event in the same book…
(c) K Wicks
One white rose in the garden.
(c) K Wicks
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