HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a safe week, and you all find some joy.
Sunrise through the Lodgepole PinesYellowstone National ParkUS National Park Service NPS/Jacob W. FrankPhoto labeled public domain (copyright free).
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/
RSPB Giving Nature a Home
Evening all: Have been busy doing Not Much today - warm again but cool temps on way. Have had to turn Starry Night around so I can work on the starry bit without dislodging the town below. Can't say I'd recommend Van Gogh to jigsaw fans unless you're really obsessive and have nothing else at all to do for weeks and weeks....
Lindybird: Brilliant about the poem. Congratulations! I'll pop over to the Poetry site - is it obvious which one it is?
Have read everyone's posts re little peoples' swimming success; people trampling crops for lack of wellies, homesteading hardships (and yes, what about the Native Americans and what must they be thinking?), vaccines and confusion over what constitutes 'distance.'
Take care and stay well everyone, with special hope that OG's week will be good.
DIANE – I enjoyed your info on homesteading. It seems similar to SA’s credit selection scheme from 1869. 640 acres could be bought with 20% paid and rest over 4 years. Selector had to live on property & make improvements (fences, dams or wells, house) and they had to grow crops. Regulations did change as 640 acres were too small. Several twigs on our family trees were credit selectors. Other states had similar. Good luck with your novel. Our libraries have few books, fiction or non-fiction, of the farmlands of US. I can only think of James Michener but he was culled years ago.
HEATHER – We scoffed 3 of the pasties last night. I could not be bothered making pasties, pies, casseroles, unless I produced 3 or 4 meals worth.
CLARE – Glad you & Limpy could get out. Fair enough to have restrictions but, for goodness sake, make them clear! When Melbourne had their lockdown, there was a 5 km limit.
Dau sent photo of Trio painting their sun-catchers (our Xmas gift) after spending the morning making a marble run in sandpit. She is looking forward to some sort of peace Wed next week (back to school).
Most of my day has been a Nothing Much Day. . . Another early zap this morn; later phone checkup from Doc. With all the exposure I’ve had to scans, MRI, Xrays, etc, I like today’s thought.
Just a thought
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head. (Frank McCourt)
Lindybird said:t was a poem entitled "EJ" and contained the lines "You fed them /guarded them with sticks, /and spread those wings in summer rain/to gently shelter them again"
https://community.rspb.org.uk/chat/f/poetry-corner/19265/osprey-poems#pifragment-4313=5
May be of help,as has been said some brilliant ones, and Lindy, you always capture the true essence in all your poems.THANK YOU
Lindybird said:Thank you so much for your clever link: I never did master the way to do one
@Lindy ....that's just a straight foward COPY of the address,from address bar, at the top of the page you are looking at .so you just 'PASTE' it
Tis not a a 'Posh link'.....CHOL:))
Just for the interest....This would be the posh link for Lind'y EJ Poem