Solar Calendar Pictograph

Young man,

If you cherish a special idea rightfully yours, hold it close to your heart. Keep it secret if you must. Nurture it, scrutinize it, purify it, educate it, keep it safe all your life. Until which time you will know_  and only then give it purpose, make it fly. Don't let them kill your dream.

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Solar calender pictographs are few and far between in the rock art of the desert Southwestern U.S... Standard pigments used in pictographs include red iron oxide, charcoal, white clay, ground malachite, and azurite mixed with saliva or  vegetable extracts to make a paste.

Photo By Paula R.

These basic concoctions have endured millennium beneath alcoves and cliff overhangs protected from the elements, conveying their messages across time. 

These people were far more advanced in their understanding of the patterns of the Earth and its seasons than we. They understood the power of written words, and that men lived within them. They personally knew death, and life giving sustenance, thus called them by rightful name. They appreciated the simple design of life and fluently spoke its pure language.

Canyon Pintado National Historic District  -  Sun Dagger Site
Rangely, Colorado

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1on_Pintado

Musa Ruby Red Ornamental Banana

Ornamental Bananas are a joy. Most bloom all summer long, right up until frost. Others are grown for their fantastic leaf color, downright spectacles worthy of conversation.

Though they perform much better in the ground here in South Louisiana, they can be grown in pots in doors or out.

Small in stature, most are under 8 feet tall, half as wide, non invasive, and non edible. The small hand of bananas on this flower ( left ) will turn a ruby red color ( lower right ) in a few days.

Ornamental banana plants are no mess, easily trimmed or cut to the ground after freezing in the fall, which most will do during winters in zone 8b and cooler. They return to near full form  every year from the corm, to make you happy again darling.

Bananas love daily watering, full sun, mulch around base, and fertilizer 2 or 3 times a summer. However, they can do with less when your busy. In the Southeastern U. S. after established, their not fussy and can withstand pure neglect and rebound. I know this see. Huh.

The ornamental banana is a messenger poet. It has such the way with its few words of preciseness, a short recital in a summer's time, a tale of the expert witness of The High Court_  that beauty is complete in its smallest state.

.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_ornata

Magnolia Grandiflora Blossom

You will be my home,
the truth that I seek,
my ambitions, my peace, my rest.

I will know your heart,
honor you in your house,
where I wait for you all my days.

Search my soul,
cleans my thoughts.
Keep me humble,
so I will hear your voice.

Make me whole,
that I might see your face.

It's what the bee said.

Red Curcuma

What man can have,

can be learned in a season,
trust in the goodness of time.

The quiet-hearted spirits of the garden,
will protect you from heavy material things,
and the pride for which lusts, your pure heart.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curcuma_australasica


 




I've grown this plant for 15 or 20 years in various places in my yard here in zone 8b South Louisiana, where it is frozen to the ground most winters. It never has bloomed until this past record cold winter I thought would surly kill it. What can a man know?

There is this vastly powerful energy see_ that mysteriously overrules the most earnest attempts of the very men that seek it, and it's like God to them.

Tropical Waterlily Tanzanite

Well she's walking through the clouds,
with a circus mind that's running wild,
butterflies and zebras,
and moonbeams and fairy tales.
that's all she ever thinks about.
Riding with the wind.

When I'm sad she comes to me,
with a thousand smiles she gives to me free.
it's alright, she says it's alright,
take anything you want from me, anything.
Fly on little wing.
Jimi Hendrix

Nymphaea Tanzanite developed by Florida Aquatic Nurseries

Cedar Breaks National Monument

A lifetime is a high mountain
from which to look__
search your soul__
weigh your deeds__
find your heart__
across the years.

In this vista, the fleeting nature of time, impossible beauty of space, and the magical qualities of this human chance are all vividly evident for all to see, and exceedingly patient for those slow to understand, this view_  that we all must.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Breaks_National_Monument

http://www.nps.gov/cebr/index.htm 

Coastal Redwood Tree, Sequoia sempervirens

Young man,

Space, time, knowledge, travel, success, happiness, beauty, etc. happen or do not in the environment created for it, from within

a state of independent solitude,
a pure and uncorrupted quiet,
a gracious spring, a fertile soil,
a trusted seed.

Photo by Paula R.





Coastal Redwood Forest, Northern California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_sempervirens

Bull Thistle

The versatility in nature graciously allows for the curved line,
architect of designs infinite in variety,
voices with stories forever to tell_
another season in an irrefutably beautiful language,
instilled promises of yet another chance to see,
the methodically forgiving kindred circle,
patient teacher in quiet whispering chant.

This is the way of the humble Earth,

says a mere weed that nobody wants.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistle

Azalea Delaware Valley White

I don't have to wonder my duty,
it's an earnest attempt to see the beauty,
and understand the rules of this fleeting chance,

infinite consideration paid in advance.
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Delaware Valley White azalea is a small to medium, acid loving, single, profusely flowering, small leaved shrub to 4 foot in height and slightly wider. Because of its small leaves it's not an easy plant to keep attractive before and after blooming as are other azaleas, but in the third week of March in South Louisiana it will make you proud with more than its share of pure white single flowers. Azaleas do best in part shade on sandy acidic soil under Longleaf Yellow Pine Trees which have long tap roots resembling that of a human tooth. These deep rooted pines don't compete with shallow rooted azaleas for moisture, as they absorb water from deeper stratum of earth. Benefiting from the moisture retaining pine needle leaf shed twice a year which acidifies the  soil, the Azaleas likewise benefit the pines as a living mulch, and trap for air born organic matter and dust which feeds both plants. Groupings of both pines and azaleas are often done at the same time. Plant azaleas early spring and don't let them dry out the first season, this is the key to growing azaleas. After establishment Delaware Valley White and most other azaleas are drought tolerant in the Southeastern U.S..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azalea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_palustris

Willow Oak, Quercus Phellos

The Willow Oak is a long lived (to 300 years) member of the red oak family native to the southeastern U.S. It grows in or near bottom lands and upland streams, usually preferring a sandy knoll where its roots are slightly elevated above permanently saturated soils. It grows to 90 foot here in Southwest Louisiana.

Dark Green Late September Leaves and Acorns

A deciduous tree losing 100% of its leaves (shaped like willow tree leaves) during winter  here, but no trouble to keep tidy because its leaves are thin, narrow, and decay quickly much like grass. A very nice alternative to the Live Oak if you have the room, as it becomes massive with time. The fall Willow Oak acorn crop is a valuable fall food source for squirrels, cattle, white tailed deer, and jays.

 The tree pictured is approx. 25' tall @ 9 years old, and a real joy to witness in the spring, as each tree varies in leaf color due to changes in soil, some in different shades of green, others orange  red. The willow oak is a quality tree that is easily distinguishable from look alike trees of lesser desirability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_phellos

Tomb Of Michaelangelo

Oh humble apprentice of tireless question.

When you ask the purpose of life,
do you really expect to understand ?
Where you never intended to go, nor thought to look, you've found more than you could hope for.
Even the night is filled with sustenance of beautiful design_ all a gift to a child too young to comprehend_
a physically suffered eternal paradise, an awarded achievement of Heaven.

Basilica of Santa Croce   Florence, Italy

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Santa_Croce,_Florence

Nun's Orchid

The Nun's Orchid is a tropical plant suitable for an 8 to 12 inch in diameter, deep pot. If kept indoors by a window in winter, it will grow to approx. 40 inches tall at blooming. The foliage alone isn't much to look at, but while the world outside is frozen, it will bloom its heart out for nearly a month, reminding its keeper of its true character and quality as a houseplant. It looks best elevated on a table near light where it does successfully_ I'm pretty sure_  pray for an end to winter.

Painted Rocks Petroglyph Site, Gila Bend Arizona

Young man,

I want to give you a freedom exceedingly difficult to achieve in the age in which you live, in the limited time of a life, by your own means. This freedom requires you understand the world in which you live, the written history of mankind. To imagine the odds you must look into space. Get a telescope and excel in your math class. Realize a universe as infinitely small as it is big, ponder it to great lengths, and who's judge of where big becomes little, that science and religion are one and the same.

I'd like to make an assertion that there is inscribed in all things a universal language recognized by few. This universal language is all around us, in place now in the glyphic language of images.

The quantity and quality of readily available evident information stored in images is taken for granted, overlooked, and not taken seriously. It is now necessary to make an addendum to the learning process and expand the way we think to institute methods of higher learning, since we are learning machines and definitely have the capacity. Every vista we will ever see contains immeasurable amounts of information.

The capability of the human intellect to understand is vastly superior to the means currently available to learn. Great insufficiency exist in today's written languages rendering them obsolete in this age of information. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. This method of communication allows the masses to understand one another and the world to function, but is extremely basic. 26 letters are far too few. Complacency is a great danger.

Peace in the world demands that we better ourselves with a greater knowledge base. An intelligent species must abolish poverty, disease, and greedy little men, all of which profit from ignorance. We need be far better stewards of our wonderful planet, expand our compassion beyond our ambitions and close social groups, to encompass the whole of understanding, see the big beautiful picture.

 I want you to build a new alphabet. Yes you. You have been called.

That's what the rocks say.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Rock_Petroglyph_Site

Alocasia Black Stem

An inquisitive spirit and a new plant, in the same space_ in the same time_ is a world forever young.