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

[bondo-ba.livejournal.com]

Living in a large city, I often forget just how beautiful late winter / early spring can be when you have some countryside nearby!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And it looks so different depending on the light--it can go all intense golden when the sun comes out.