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Eclectic Corner: Perspective (Photography)

Perspective is an interesting thing. Each of these photographs show the artichoke plants from a different perspective. I don’t think it is possible to know the size of the plants from looking at any of the photos. If I had walked into my neighbor’s garden and stood next to the plants, which I didn’t, I believe they would have been about my height (5 ft 7 in).

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Eclectic Corner: Perspective (Written Piece)

Perspective means different ways of seeing things.

When some people see worms they get squeamish. They wouldn’t even think holding them and letting them run through their fingers.

The picture above is of the worms in my vermicomposting bin. I feed the worms and in turn they create fertilizer! I love watching the worms. I particularly enjoy it when the time comes to separate the worms from the fertilizer (the fertilizer goes to the garden and the worms go back into the vermicomposting bin) because I get to pick them up and feel them squiggle in my hand.

As I look at the vegetable plants that are growing in my garden now, I know the worms have played a significant role in making them so healthy. I feel immensely grateful that they are doing such an important service for me and for the earth.

Perspective can make such a difference.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Vivid

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Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way

The photography challenge for this week:

In-between moments can be just as memorable as grand finales. This week, share a photo you took on the way to something else.

Today, I was driving home from delivering an item to a friend and saw this intriguing statue. The owner’s home address was carved into the bottom portion of the log. I thought it was a perfect subject for the challenge!

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A Time of Creation

When I returned from Amma’s programs in Everett on Tuesday, I was surprised by how much my garden had grown. I felt so grateful to the neighbor who watered the plants for me during the four days I was gone. Everything looked so beautiful.

I have shared a glimpse of the garden beds I have been building in past posts, but haven’t shown them up close. I decided now is the time, even though I’ve only completed two of the four.

I plan to add some more dirt to this front one and straighten some of the bricks but other than that it is finished. The bed closer to the house is about half done.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken

In 2006, a UN Environment Programme report estimated that every square mile of ocean contains 46,000 pieces of floating plastic. While I don’t know how much plastic is in the ground, I know that whenever I dig in the empty lot behind my house, I find plastic in every shovelful. I have lived in this house since 1973. Most of the plastic has been there longer than that.

In March, a friend helped me cut down and remove many of the blackberry vines in that area. Later, I cleared the remaining brush from one 36 square-foot section so that I could plant potatoes.

The pictures below show the trash I found when I made the holes for the potato starts. (I did not dig out the entire 36 square-foot area. These objects were found only in in the holes I dug.)

I took the first two photos when the garbage was still in the yard. The third was taken after I spread the trash out on my deck table, The fourth is what it looked like after I gave it a light washing. Notice how little decomposition there has been in the decades this trash has been in the ground.