my own Everglades

[asakiyume]

Two days ago, Writer's Almanac quoted Marjory Stoneman Douglas, eulogizer of the Everglades, who said of them,

Nothing anywhere else is like them: their vast glittering openness . . . the racing free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the blue heights of space . . . the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose . . . it is a river of grass.

(vast glittering openness
sweet massive winds
blue heights of space
a river of grass)

One day I'll see them. For now, here is my own Everglades, waiting to be reborn.



Nearby a male turkey was displaying for an only moderately interested crowd.



One more picture, this from yesterday--the turbulent sky ocean

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

What spectacular photos!

Is the top picture a creek? (I ask because it doesn't look to be flowing in that particular pool.)

I love the turkeys. I don't think I've ever seen wild turkeys.

Did you have a storm? The clouds are wonderful!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It is flowing! In a very languid way--it's flowing away from us. That whole area is marsh; you can bounce on the tussocks of grass.

It did rain! But at that point the sky was just lowering and fuming without actually letting loose with waterworks.