Sakura ga suki desu
While I was laid up with the nasty coughing flu, the seasons delivered great beauty to our back yard.
Only the last five photos are from this past weekend, others are from earlier this season.
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Nature
Eating Locally Produced Food
Waldo has been encouraging us to eat locally for some time, for both health and reduced carbon footprint, and liberalrage has shared an incredibly useful link for making that easier, no matter where you live.
We’ve found that many local foods taste better, because rather than being selected for ease of transportation, they can be selected for flavor; and rather than being picked way too soon and allowed to ripen in the truck or on the shelf, they can be picked when ripe.
An unexpected benefit, many local growers have excellent weather sense, as growers do the world over… but enthusiastic local growers also blog about conditions as a way of communicating with their buyers and/or share owners. Those weather blogs are the keenest sense of what is happening locally that I’ve been able to fine. Support your local growers. You’ll meet new people, and you may even be invited to a local pumpkin fest or harvest party.
Monarch Butterfly Migration
The Monarch Butterfly Migration this year is supposed to be one of the most dramatic in living memory. I am not sure what factors go into making more Monarchs, but it is lovely to behold. I can’t get out to Cape May, NJ this weekend, but if you can you should try to. The sight is supposed to be spectacular and awe-inspiring.
This brief moment of nature appreciation brought to you by the letter S and the number 4; but mostly by WAMU’s (88.5) story about Monarch Butterfly Migrations that I heard yesterday on the radio.
