Container Vegetables in South Louisiana

My hoop house container garden (47% shade cloth) new variety experiments. I do real good with sweet corn, Dixie lee field peas, snap beans, carrots, melons, green unions, parsley, and excellent with cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, mustard greens (no grit). Close attention must be paid to pests, especially aphids and white flies. Catch them early. Also, keep foliage elevated 18 inches off ground cover or floor keeping plants adequately spaced to allow for good ventilation, makes it hard for pests to survive where runoff dries quickly. Vegetables like moist roots but dry stems and foliage so use drip emitters or spray stakes that don't create a mist, or water by hand.

Grandfather Tree

I think one of the first lessons we each as individuals should learn is, that a word is like a tree. The ultimate meaning of the word, like the tree can grow with time, despite our short sightedness, no matter our years of life experiences. We must keep an open mind, and never come to the conclusion that we know everything about anything, because then we will know nothing.

I once met a humbly learned individual by the name of  Mario, an indigenous person who lived most of his life in the rain forest, far from any modern convenience. He told me he left the simple life he loved because he wanted his son to go to school, and learn to read and write. The park service there offered to give he and his family good clothing, a small salary, teach them English in exchange for a job as a tour guide, as his knowledge of trees and plants was extensive. He spoke with a reverence for the plants and animals of the jungle and for life I have seen in few ministers.

He pointed to a huge tree, (kind of like this one that my grandfather planted) towering above all the rest and said to me, Ron, this is the Grandfather tree, and within its limbs and crevices, as you can see is a forest in itself, within which seeds, the hopes of all future rain forests rely. A tree is like a word that grows.

Monastery at MonSerrat, Spain

A Longing For Oneness

In the landscape of life,
there must be a sufficient distance,
to reveal the grandest of vistas.


Seasons of suffering provide
understanding for the heart to see,
that all things long for oneness.

That's what the rocks say.

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, New Mexico

Train From Durango To Silverton Colorado

The steam engine leaves early morning. It's about four hours trough the San Juan Mountains to Silverton. Nice ride, Beautiful country. The sides of passenger cars are open and benches face outward for easy viewing. You will return to Durango by bus and appreciate the difference in technology.

Pompei Bread Market

These are paintings on the wall of the bread market, buried for 1600 years during a the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Near Naples, Italy

Freedom

Nothing is yours until you give it,
and then you are free.

In this precise moment, this young man is weighing the  value of ownership versus that of giving, and he is satisfied that it would only be fair to own one and give one.

I knew what he was going to do before he did it. He was born generous.

Men of Understanding

I will come to this place every now and again...When the time comes, I will make a private door for you.

 I will have many wonderful things to tell you.

First please do this for me. Seek understanding in all things, study all religions, physics, math, nature, astronomy, and love the truth more than anything or anyone. Amen

I am building a ship. It is totally wooden. Only it doesn't need an ocean to sail, or sky to fly.

I will be looking for the best horses, all of them, and men of understanding, all of them. It will be christened  Matthew 10:34-36  and will board soon.

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One Love, One Life

My wife of 42 years Monday. She stuck with me through a mountain of debt, an ocean of liquor, an earthquake, and a fire.


1 Kings 19:12

After the earthquake there was a fire. But the Lord wasn't in the fire. And after the fire there was a quiet, whispering voice. God's Word Translation 1995

Harvard Glacier

Prince William Sound, Alaska

Venice Roof Tops, Venice Italy

Do they match or what? From the tower at San Marcos Square Venice, Italy

Canyon DeChelly , AZ

I have a good friend here in a guy by the name of Adam Teller. He's a very knowledgeable and personable credit to the Navajo People and his beloved ancestral home at Antelope House in the canyon. He is a kind, gentle, and wise man I've learned more from in a couple of days than I thought possible. Please remember Adam, his Father Ben Teller, and Antelope House Tours on your trip to Canyon DeChelly. 
http://www.canyondechelly.net/

Jesus Christ Lizard

Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica

The Inside Passage

We do not want schools....
they will teach us to have churches.
We do not want churches....
they will teach us to quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.
We may quarrel with men sometimes
about things on this earth,
but we never quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.

Heinmot Tooyalaket ( Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader