come saturday morning
I'm not going away with any friends. But I'll saturday laugh more than half of the day.... (old song, check it out some time)
Tom's coming by. I'm looking forward to that. it's a nice break in an otherwise pretty routine life. Spring can't come soon enough! I brought home tulips and hyacinth from the grocery store thursday. We're low on funds and I'm scrimping but flowers don't get scrimped on.
"If they fortune be bereft,
And in thy store there be but left
Two loaves, sell one, and with the dole,
Buy hyacinths to feed your soul."
Thank you John GreenLeaf Whittier for a terrific life motto!
I always buy flowers in February, hyacinth, no matter how poor I am and they are so much more to me than the food I could have bought.
I like to put my flowers next to the parrot cage. I can tell that Sam likes flowers. He's the first non-human I've seen to appreciate them as beauty, not just food. Oh he'll eat them, sure, but even just having some around lifts his world so I put the bouquets nearby. When I have organic flowers (home grown really) that are edible species I like to give him one to eat.
If you've never eaten flowers, try them this summer! Stick to ones you grow yourself and know that aren't sprayed for pests because ornamentals aren't sprayed with the same food-safe stuff and can be toxic. Roses, day lilies, and pansies are the tastiest but I wouldn't kick a nasturtium out of my salad! Also, remember that apple blossoms are pretty much never sprayed so unless you know it's possible, fruit trees are usually a pretty good place to munch some flowers. Nobody will notice you're tasting as well as smelling, so go for it! Yes, they'll count against your veggie needs!
I'm so happy to see sunshine coming in the windows. It might still be damn cold outside but there's light anyway.
That reminds me, I just want, so badly, one of these overpriced new skylights! I forget what it's called but since it's $60k per light, who cares? AH, but what it is! Yes, padwan, it is a miracle. They've put a projector behind a lens. The lens is a special material where they've duplicated the Faraday effect (did I get that right?) of how the sky is blue. They say they've compressed the atmosphere itself into a few millimeters but what that means isn't clear to me. Is it just a particular formulation of glass or plastic that creates the effect. So they use LED and focusing lenses behind a filter and adjust the colour temperature and angle of projection to mimic different latitudes of sunshine. What you get in the room is an actual sunbeam from a skylight or window (if installed on the wall). when you look up at the light, it appears to show a perfectly blue sky, featureless except for the brightly shining sun. Then you realize you're nowhere near the roof or outside walls and your mind twists.
I can't wait for these to come down in cost! What a miracle for sun-starved northerners! I bet it even grows plants. It doesn't move across the wall though, so it stays fixed where you point it. Now that would also be strange.
Tom's coming by. I'm looking forward to that. it's a nice break in an otherwise pretty routine life. Spring can't come soon enough! I brought home tulips and hyacinth from the grocery store thursday. We're low on funds and I'm scrimping but flowers don't get scrimped on.
"If they fortune be bereft,
And in thy store there be but left
Two loaves, sell one, and with the dole,
Buy hyacinths to feed your soul."
Thank you John GreenLeaf Whittier for a terrific life motto!
I always buy flowers in February, hyacinth, no matter how poor I am and they are so much more to me than the food I could have bought.
I like to put my flowers next to the parrot cage. I can tell that Sam likes flowers. He's the first non-human I've seen to appreciate them as beauty, not just food. Oh he'll eat them, sure, but even just having some around lifts his world so I put the bouquets nearby. When I have organic flowers (home grown really) that are edible species I like to give him one to eat.
If you've never eaten flowers, try them this summer! Stick to ones you grow yourself and know that aren't sprayed for pests because ornamentals aren't sprayed with the same food-safe stuff and can be toxic. Roses, day lilies, and pansies are the tastiest but I wouldn't kick a nasturtium out of my salad! Also, remember that apple blossoms are pretty much never sprayed so unless you know it's possible, fruit trees are usually a pretty good place to munch some flowers. Nobody will notice you're tasting as well as smelling, so go for it! Yes, they'll count against your veggie needs!
I'm so happy to see sunshine coming in the windows. It might still be damn cold outside but there's light anyway.
That reminds me, I just want, so badly, one of these overpriced new skylights! I forget what it's called but since it's $60k per light, who cares? AH, but what it is! Yes, padwan, it is a miracle. They've put a projector behind a lens. The lens is a special material where they've duplicated the Faraday effect (did I get that right?) of how the sky is blue. They say they've compressed the atmosphere itself into a few millimeters but what that means isn't clear to me. Is it just a particular formulation of glass or plastic that creates the effect. So they use LED and focusing lenses behind a filter and adjust the colour temperature and angle of projection to mimic different latitudes of sunshine. What you get in the room is an actual sunbeam from a skylight or window (if installed on the wall). when you look up at the light, it appears to show a perfectly blue sky, featureless except for the brightly shining sun. Then you realize you're nowhere near the roof or outside walls and your mind twists.
I can't wait for these to come down in cost! What a miracle for sun-starved northerners! I bet it even grows plants. It doesn't move across the wall though, so it stays fixed where you point it. Now that would also be strange.