Also there was much "Fairy Grass." I think now after checking it out that it might be Lachnagrostis filiformis. At one time I thought it was Sporobolus caroli....Here are some photos of this lovely grass, hung with dew, like fairyland.
(NB 2/1/2015 This grass was last year identified to me as an exotic! Hair Grass or Air grass. am a bit disappointed. It is still pretty. Nice last year.)
Spring of 2011 has been rather dry and there is hardly any fairy grass, just a few plants. Yellow billybuttons, Craspedia, are showing up on the hillside, but no chocolate lilies this year.
Native bluebells, Wahlenbergia, grow in my garden. I find them easy to propogate by strewing their fine seed on top of soil in big garden pots. The roots can fill up the pot fully so one needs to plant them out in the ground where they make a welcome sight and flower each year; very hardy even in drought. The roots are curious in that they grow down 6 inches (15cm) then go horizontal for a distance then down again. Shoots come up along the horizontal root and I guess it is protection against browsing animals. The root has a milky white sap; such plants may be aborininal womens' business, from what I read. I wonder what pharmacological content is in these roots? Once upon a time Bluebells would have stretched for enormous distances, as did all the wildflowers. I can only grieve for a perfectly good and exquisite ecology which has been supplanted by European plants. Someone once told me that the Australian Nature Spirits were quite happy to meet newcomers!
One can only guess at what the Greater Scheme in the Cosmos has planned!
Living close to the land, I am fortunate to watch signs of the impact of weather on the dynamics of Nature. This year might be kinder for vegetables, not like last year which was boggy and cold. October saw the usual rapid growth of tall oats and ripgut brome which I have to go out and cut with the scythe in the early mornings hopefully before the brown snakes come out! I have seen 3 baby snakes and 3 dead snakes run over on the tar road where they like to sun themselves. A swarm of bees settled in a box of books with tarpaulin over them. Scott the young local beekeeper transferred them into a proper hive, B450.
PS 2/1/2015 note- the bees died or went away. Soon after. Not sure why.
If you would like a scythe you can go to http://www.scythesaustralia.com.au/. Some of my favourite tools were made in Japan- the people are the masters of many arts! One good tool I made from a miner's pick and the handle of a mattock, with a wedge to hold the pick tighter on the handle. It gets right under big thistles. I refuse to use pesticides so need to do all by hand. Best would be to communicate with plants if only we could. There would be much less suffering all round! Someone told us a story about visiting a farm in japan where they were sterilising the soil using nerve gas under black plastic! Two people, independently, heard the soil screaming.
The dynamics of Nature makes me think of our own dynamics as human beings.
What if someone were to say to you, "You are a magnificent, metaphysical, multidimensional Being of Love and Light." How would you feel? Would you think "I am so glad there is more to me!", or "If I am so magnificent then why do I feel so horrible?"
People who have read books by MJRoads will be glad he has a new book out, "A Glimpse of Something Greater", to follow his "Through the Eyes of Love" double book- Travels With Pan.
You can find more on http://www.michaelroads.com/.
What does it mean to be multidimensional? I guess we might find out as time goes on in this new age after the end of the Mayan Calendar.
Once when I was young and doing rebirthing in the 1980s I was fascinated to discover dowsing with the pendulum, and the mystical realms of life. I had a bit of fun dowsing which nature spirit might be associated with some people. Do you know a girl who might look akin to a fairy queen or a boy to an elf, etc? It might be all imagination- but who really knows what is true? We might find out one day...
