Flowers

How does one know it is a flower?
What is the difference between a Period and and Era?
Which was the favorite flower of Hercules?

I asked you first.

I will tell you some things about flowers that I've been checking into.

With the advent if flowers the Earth began to look like the good old Earth we know. Flowers, I hear, began to bloom a lot toward the end of of the late Mesozoic Era, around 135,000,000 years ago, plus or minus 1,000,000 years. From the beginning of the Cretaceous Period(about 145,500,000 years ago)  the Earth has be decorated with flowers. Dinosaurs lived to see them.

Just as things were looking really good, about 65,000,000 years ago, a large object struck the earth and not only ended the Period and the Era, but also the dinosaurs. I suspect that some of these survived to become dragons and some to become birds too.

Some men have called dragons 'great worms' and and others called them 'flying snakes.' Seems men have called dragons a variety if names. Did you ever hear of a man saying that dragons or dinosaurs stopped to smell the flowers?

In a Myanmar river I saw two recently dead dragon looking creatures pulled up on the bank. They had Turned nearly white. Thais have told me that similar creatures still live in their rivers. I have seen a carving if them decorated with flowers. Once I saw a great worm moving into the cinders on the side if a volcano in Italy, but it did not fly and I saw no flowers growing in those cinders. The Volcano was giving off certain fumes.

Insects may have known flowers longer than other beings. Birds are attracted ti the fruits and nuts which flowers bring and to the insects they attract.

Beautiful and seemingly delicate flowers abound while dinosaurs and dragons do not. Flowers, it appears, like women, have mire staying power than some have thought.

Aftershocks if that strike from space which knocked the Earth out of the Mesozoic Era into the Cenozoic lasted, I imagine, about 40,000,000 years; for only 25,000,000 years ago the 'Laramide Revolution' so shook the Earth that it brought up from the bottom of a sea what was to become 'the land if enchantment,' New Mexico, and also began a period of world wide volcanism.

Then, in a blaze if celestial glory, about 20,000,000 years ago, the Pleiades were formed:
                            There is a piece of the moon in the apple
                            A part of the sun in a rose
                            And a bit of the flaming Pleiades in ever blade of grass that blows.

What a World!

Flowers

In geological time flowers have not been around long; in human time they have been around for a good long time. With the advent of flowers the Earth began to look like the good old Earth we know. Things began to look better in the Cretaceous Period. (I think the cretaceous has something to do with chalk, but I have a lot to learn about that Period). There were still a lot of dinosaurs around then, but flowering plants did appear and diversify into the main flowering plant families we know today. Flowering was was really happening toward the end of the Mesozoic Era around 1335,000,000 before the present, plus or minus about 5,000,000 (What's the difference between a Period and an Era?).

Then, just as things seemed to be going very well, about 65,000,000 BP, an extraterrestrial object struck the Earth and ended the Period, the Era, and most of the dinosaurs. I believe that some of the dinosaurs survived as dragons, birds, lizards, snakes, and like that. The flowers survived better than the dinosaurs. It seems that flowers, like women, are tougher than they look.

The aftershock of that strike, which knocked the Earth out of the Mesozoic Era into the Cenozoic Era, seems to have lasted about 40,000,000 years because about 25,000,000 years ago the 'Laramide Revolution' so shook the Earth that it brought up what is now the state of New Mexico from the bottom of the sea, beginning a period of world-wide volcanism.

About 20,000,000 BP, in a blaze of glory, the Pleiades were born:

            There is a piece of the moon in an apple,

            A bit of the sun in a rose,

            A part of the flaming Pleiades in every blades of grass that blows.

I guess flowers have star stuff in them too.

For perspective, humans, it seems have only been around for about 200,000 years, and we have probably been acting like humans for less than half that time.

Intimation of Spring.

A tiny humming bird seems to be tasting the nectar of tiny flowers I do not see.

One Multi-blossomed Marigold

Verbena


 

The wild flowers in my patio, which I have been nurturing since early April, are beginning to show the sear of winter, but they are stilling blooming. I have been enjoying their blossoms for eight continuous

  months now!

The Verbena shown above is not the only flower in bloom. Pretty yellow desert marigold are also still showing off. I had the little garden plot surrounded by eight potted cacti, but being wild, many of the plants escaped to areas beyond the surround.

The desert iguanas no longer come in to see them, the jack rabbits are to big to get into the patio area, and I haven't seen a ground squirrel for a few days. However, chipmunks still come in and seem to enjoy the flowers as do the cactus wrens. The cottontail seem to find great comfort in them and do not eat them.
These flowers are truly wild. They came into the patio area because they wanted to. The escaped the encircling cacti because the wanted to. One marigold has escaped the patio and is heading for the fence.

Wild

"My" wild flowers are still blooming! White, yellow and light purple-violet.

Around the Place

The animals around this J.T. house are getting bold. The quail act like they are my chickens and ought to be fed from my front door.
A roadrunner is acting like I should had deliver raw hamburger to him. The chipmunks are checking out my potted cacti to see which they will eat first. The desert iguanas which nibbled a bit at my flowers now act as though the are fare at a free salad bar. For a few days a handsome lizard of a rare sort spent time in my house. Not usually a healthy place for one of his kind. I put him out. Than two days later I spotted him trying to use a door I had left open to get back in.

Little House in JT Village

Remembering to stop and enjoy I see: that my trees are gracefully thriving, that the tissue papery, poppy-like, flowers still bloom near the mail box when watered; that the handsome, nearly white desert iguanas are still around,if less trustingly so than those at Camp Thunderbird; and that little yellow flowers still bloom among the verbena in my patio. The verbena give off a delicate perfume which seems to be as attractive to the little wild bees as it is to me.

Wild Flowers

There have been so may wild flowers around my yard for so long that I am beginning to feel that the way of the world is to be always surrounded by beautiful flowers.


There are also cottontail rabbits, desert iguanas, cactus wren, chipmunks, bushy-tailed, grey ground squirrel, and dove in my tiny yard. 
A number of other birds visit from time time, including great ravens.

Old Affirmations Today

~ I see a choice here.

~ I see  an alternative here.

~ I see an option here.

~ I am ready to learn to sustain a strong enough flow of income to myself here.

~ I am ready and willing to appropriately express this feeling of mine here.

~ I am ready willing and able to learn to better use my judgement here.

~ I am appropriately loyal to myself here.

~ I am ready to learn to gain valuable information and insight from this experience here.

~ Life is good here.

~ I am giving myself a great day here.

~ I am good enough here.

~ I am worthy of happiness, health, strength, and joy here.

~ I express myself here.

~ I fill a need with pleasant dispatch here.

Beautiful Flowers

The verbena in the patio is spectacular.

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viva los campesinos

pueblo arriba

to the devil with the violence

Colombans for all Colobians.

flores y poco mas al norte