A vast me?? Are you hinting that I’m as One with the All-being, the Endless Consciousness? Or just that my diet-and-exercise plan isn’t working?
I tried putting “Ahoy Mateys! Avast ye!” into GoogleTranslate, but it just returned the same thing. I guess they don’t do Pirate-to-AmericanEnglish.
(sorry, though i was in odd stuff)
That print looks be familiar; is be that a Life in Hell calendar?
It be! It shor’n be on ye Simpsons calendar today, as well.
It probably costs $50 just to turn the key in that thing.
Boat (n.): a hole in the water into which one shovels money.
Aye. Probably uses a small out board boat to tug it to the pump out station
In northern Hays County, Texas, here’s my quick snap a sunset in the week before Fall (or what our weatherman on the radio calls “calendar Autumn”).
However.
Foreground shows unfortunately now-endemic King Ranch Bluestem, an invasive exotic introduced to Texas by ranchers hoping to pasture cattle on land so lean and fragile there was no existing sensible way to extract these services from the soil elsewise.
https://www.wildflower.org/expert/show.php?id=1873
The only reason I bring this up is offer this reminder: all is not as it may seem.1
The beautiful long grasses may wave in the wind, beautifully, even as the soil biology is crashing, even as the successful natives with untold millennia of tried-and-true land habitation are driven out by rapacious, “opportunistic colonizers” as one permaculture consultant has taught me to re-frame.
I suppose a footnote here is that significant number of Texas (and probably other) land managers wishing to do re-wilding / restore native ecology are going the pesticide route, which further borks soil biota.
https://www.texasinvasives.org/plant_database/detail.php?symbol=BOISS
and if you’re a fly fisherperson it’s a nice book to plunge into if you can’t get outside for a while.
In Arizona it’s bufflegrass: http://www.desertmuseum.org/buffelgrass/
(Not to be confused with buffalograss)
Alas, when I was in the Bay Area I could have scrounged up a few (at least three) Andy Goldsworthy pictures IRL.
Oh maaaan we’ve got buffelgrass. I hear you.
That dang stuff just takes over. Unreal.
https://www.wildflower.org/expert/show.php?id=10616&frontpage=true
There’s not enough time and humanpower to pull all that by hand, and apparently controlled burns are not ideal control either. Oy vey!
Difference of shadow angle suggests approximately 20-30 mins.
Hmm…I had been thinking same time, different days—because: the feet of the sign don’t seem to be placed in the same spot in relation to the edges of the bricks in both pictures. (Looks like it was a four-day event, so…maybe?)
