asakiyume: (glowing grass)
asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2014-04-09 08:25 am

my own Everglades







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.

my own everglades

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

turkeys

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

turbulent skies


[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2014-04-09 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, those are so very lovely.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-04-09 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you liked them. I love my little Everglades.