It reminds me of the lily pond I dug for my wife back when we lived in the Maryland suburbs. Lots of work, and needed annual maintenance, but very restful to watch the goldfish and the lovely blooms on a lazy summer afternoon.
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Nary a ripple.
It reminds me of the lily pond I dug for my wife back when we lived in the Maryland suburbs. Lots of work, and needed annual maintenance, but very restful to watch the goldfish and the lovely blooms on a lazy summer afternoon.
Clover plays the lily role on land.
A fine day for fishing!
For just a sec I thought I saw Larry King.
Resident woodchuck scented somewhere back there.
... tread lightly.
ribbit..........ribbit
I saw the mind of God expressing It's
creativity in the physical world. I love water, H20, brilliant yet so simply designed.
Know your Ohio crops.
1. Maize.
2. Maze.
I have missed ya'll. I've been very sick with a sinus infection.
Water is H2O
Hydrogen two parts
Oxygen one
But there is also a third thing
that makes it water.
And nobody knows what that is.
Pardon: from DH Lawrence (Pansies). This is also kind of fun:
No, Mr. Lawrence, it's not like that!
I don't mind telling you
I know a thing or two about love,
perhaps more than you do.
And what I know is that you make it
too nice, too beautiful.
It's not like that, you know; you fake it.
It's really rather dull.
As we all know, celebrity deaths come in threes:
Farrah, Michael and our little Elmo.
Things are sad around my house today.
Elmo
Try Vicki Hearn'e Oyez a Beaumont seek out table of contents and chapter.
Occasionally the essay is online in one form or another.
rhhardin,
Thank you for that reference; it was comforting, and uplifting. Elmo "died while there [was] still something more to him than his wounds."
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