Ligustrum is just pretty and is such an easy, low maintenance shrub, that I may even learn to accept the scent.
Native to Japan, Ligustrum has glossy ever-green leaves . The shrub can be trained/pruned to desirable shapes. I allow the sun and shadow and rain to “train” those in my garden. I do prune branches that begin to protrude into pathways. As a result they resemble small trees. The tallest, so far, is about fifteen feet high. Others are rounder and lower, depending on where the sun is in relation to where they are. Mine tolerate drought and rain. All are in acidic well drained soil.
Ligustrum ⓒ Bearspawprint 2014
This photo is from Dear Son III’s garden in Yulee, Florida. All of the Ligustrum in my yard (about a dozen) are rooted from parent plants in his yard. The flower’s white beauty makes the scent better than it really is.
composer Riccardo Drigo 1894 ballet “Le Réveil de Flore”
Пробуждение Флоры = Le Réveil de Flore = The Awakening of Flora –Yuri Burlaka’s pas de quatre titled «Розарий» (literally translated as “Rosary”) by students of the Vaganova Academy, St. Petersburg. June 11, 2014. The pas is based on themes & music taken from Marius Petipa & composer Riccardo Drigo’s 1894 ballet “Le Réveil de Flore” (eng. “The Awakening of Flora” / rus. «Пробуждение Флоры»), & also includes music that Drigo composed for other works.
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Smash The Banks Polka — Mayday 2012 NYC OWS — Rude Mechanical Band
Occupy New Haven and some other picketers were outside Chase tower when Rude Mechanical showed up to lighten the mood.
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For May Day, Bear chose the theme May Day. When Eva has chosen the theme for May 8, UI shall edit it in here.
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BEAR: BEAR
EVA: http://47whitebuffalo.wordpress.com/
JOHNNY: JOHNNY
LISA: Lisa
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MAY DAY . MAY DAY . MAY DAY
“It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by mariners and aviators, but in some countries local organisations such as police forces, firefighters, and transportation organizations also use the term. The call is always given three times in a row (“Mayday Mayday Mayday”) to prevent mistaking it for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish an actual Mayday call from a message about a Mayday call.” Mayday – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, This is… by Yasuyuki ENDO with Ballet National de Marseille. This piece is created for Charity for TOHOKU disaster in 2011.
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Mayday (M’Aidez) — People In Planes
Help me! Help me!
You know me better than I know myself
Mayday! Mayday!
Send angels, I’m a danger to myself
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The plants my neighbors call weeds are beautiful to me.
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Dandelion Seeds
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I call this plant Cow Heather, because it likes cow pastures and because of the color seen in the background above. Farmers think of it as a weed because the cattle don’t care for it’s sour taste, and I have been told that it flavors milk unpleasantly. Apparently it does not affect the meat. My husband calls it Sour Grass and chewed on it as a child. I’ve always called an entirely different plant Sour Grass, which tastes more lemony and fresher, to me, and which I’ve intoduced to the children. I, and the cows, don’t like this one’s flavor, but I do like it’s heathery appearance. I am happy to see fields of it or small patches. When back lit by the afternoon sun a translucence, not readily visible from a distance, can be seen.
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Is jealousy of creation a part of human nature?
Is it innocence to assume that all flowers
Are for the plucking? Is it righteous to
Reach out and take take take take take
Calling the self both messenger and author?
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Is it human nature to pluck the best?
To hunt through the ordered gardens and the wilderness
Gathering the prettiest and the most significant,
Plucking the flowers from their context
And claiming, “Now this is mine.” ?
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Why not take all the best that you can perceive?
Why not take what moves your soul? Take take, take take .
Take what brings some comfort. Take take take take.
Why should the intensity of your wanting
Not be justification for thieving actions?
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If there is beauty in the wild,
Is that Wildness available for the plucking?
Are there no consequences for your taking taking
Taking taking taking taking taking.
There is always balance in nature.
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There are always consequences.
The flattery of your wanting is insufficient.
The Universe cares not for flattery.
When beauty flows into your heart,
Does that make you the author or the audience?
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You vandalizing thieves who have destroyed
With your careless critical trampling;
You flattering greedy plagiarizing soul cannibals;
You deceive only yourself that you are the art,
Yourself the artist and the gardener.
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You trolling gatherers of art’s life blood,
Think that there is no price to pay. Wrong.
Restitution is always made. Balance is a contract
With the Universe, made before the birth of beauty.
Think on symmetry when you claim what is not yours …
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Da! Da! Da!
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Through all strata of creation balance is maintained.
Bear … 04.23.2014
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A walk on a rainy day can be pleasant. The rain slowed enough to wander and there was just enough drizzle to keep down the worst of the skeets (mosquitoes). I was looking for Wild Azaleas to share, and there they were … waiting
Bear … 03.29.2014 …. Rainy Day Walk… Wild Azalea Buds
This orchid is a clone to one my Mother In Law had 40 years ago. Most of my (women) in-laws have some of this same plant. We grow them in honor of Vera. It blooms orange.
The green berries on this prickly Florida Holly will be red in a couple of months.
Magnolia
That beautifully contorted small tree is a wild blueberry. In early spring it is covered in tiny white flowers that look like bitty little fairy bells, all over. Then it is covered in lovely little blueberries. The leaves can be dried an made into a mellow tea with a wonderful purple-blue color. The wood from dead fall is very hard and seems to last forever. They welcome small boys to climb.
Somebody has a nice house under this Palmetto. I ignore it so that my husband won’t notice and destroy it. Palmettoes are a scrub palm. He doesn’t like them either and removes them with his tractor, I have a few, including this one, that are “mine”. They should need absolutely no care, but every year they become smaller and less, instead of bigger and more. My husband says it is the his dog who is doing the pruning.
This wild grapevine may be dead or dyeing. I didn’t check to see if my husband had severed it with his tractor. Corky hates all “damned vines” and has most big ones eradicated, Florida Crackers call these grapes Scuppernongs. They are delicious. I have some young vines trained along a back fence so that when they get enough sun to ripen , I can reach the grapes that the birds and other critters don’t get.
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