Sigh.
On the other hand......
Our vet is one mile from our house. The Chrysler dealership is one mile from our house. I can vote, do a little light retailing, and pick up library books as I walk to work, without going out of my way (well, ok, into the school to vote is out of my way).
It is good to not have to depend on internal combustion to get where you need to go. Imh.
And -- if you can't have everything, it is Good to appreciate what you have.....
Monday I walked over to retrieve the minivan from the dealership where it spent the weekend, waiting for a turn to get repaired..
This vine is on our street. I've walked past it a thousand times. More. Have I ever paid a jot of attention to what sort of vine it is? Nope.
It has obviously been there for a long time....... That's a telephone pole it's climbing......
We are talking serious vineage here!
Later in my walk to the car dealership, I walked past a small woods.
Ok.
It's vine day!
Here's something else I can't name.
I don't remember seeing this sort of shiny black vine before.
This one, though. I think I know this one. I think this is poison ivy. A large-ish, rather serious poison ivy, which has been here for a long time. Perhaps the parent of some of the poison ivy I have weeded out of my back yard.....
(close-up of vine tendrils clinging to tree bark)
2 comments:
nice vigorous vines - yes there is beauty everywhere - noticing it - bringing it into focus - having a conversation with it...
I would love to be able to walk from my home to a bookstore or a coffee shop - but to be surrounded by woods...
my life with trees
xox - eb.
Humm, we have a tenacious Virginia Creeper that is climbing up the telephone pole in our back yard--yes, we have telephone poles out our window too. I will have to trek back there and see if it's as impressive as the vines you photographed. When I look at the mountain, I can't even see the telephone poles and lines, the houses but when I look at the picture, there they are, as big as life. And there is another huge house going up on the hill. I know the people building it, they are lovely, but there it will be, on the hill, just below my vision of the mountains.
I do envy you being able to walk everywhere. I can walk to church but since I'm always cutting time close, we drive. How dumb is that? Don't answer. I know how dumb it is. Except, with ten inches of snow on the ground--and more fallling today.
PS Love the new banner!
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