gardens

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I might be able to move enough rock in my garden to plant a tulip bulb.

Great oaks from little acorns grow. And then the tree is attacked by caterpillars, borers, wood rot; loses branches from a lightning strike; falls over in a severe storm; is attacked by fungus and many insects; turns into mulch. The end.

When you have had a bad experience with a snake you see snakes everywhere – a coiled hose on a lawn, a bendy brown stick on a path, a shadow undulating on uneven ground, the movement of a bird in the undergrowth.

Catnap Cat Mint Catnip Cat Purr Caterwaul Catastrophe.

Young Silver Birch trees bend, bend, bend in the wind, But never break. Old Red Gum trees not so much.

Do spiders get bored I wonder? Their lives in webs seem to consist of very long periods of stillness punctuated by occasional moments of frantic activity.