There's Remarkable, and Then There's *Remarkable*

I  This Is Remarkable

Without ever thinking about them since putting the bulbs in the ground, I nearly tripped on my sidewalk when I saw these.

I usually kill anything I plant. But by some miracle not this time.

Now I just need a list of plants that take care of themselves.

II  Now This Is REMARKABLE!

Insects are remarkable and Levon Bliss equally so. Just watch. 

Microsculpture from Levon Biss on Vimeo.

It's one thing to be an insect, another to see one, and still another on an entirely plane of existence to design a way to photograph one in every intimate detail.

If only I were in Oxford, where I could see these in person.

A Different Conversation

Over a delightful lunch yesterday with a friend, she decried not having had a conversation with another person for four days.

It isn't the human voice that comforts me these days, so much as the insects and birds and plants and and animals and water and wind.  Such comfort in the chorus.