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

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

There are a numbers of places where "Scenic Drive" signs make me laugh. As if one hadn't been driving through fascinating, beautiful scenery before.

The looks of one's own place are-- or should be-- dear whether they're given signs or not.

I've long thought that my lifelong myopia has been an advantage in the enjoyment of not-so-grand scenic sights and sites.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's so true--people call out wide vistas for special treatment as scenic views, but intimate scenes have their own beauty. And I really like your take on the positive side of myopia.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

(I also like correction for myopia. And I like my astigmatism and correction for it-- astigmatism is really quite strange.)

I have nothing positive to say about presbyopia, I'm afraid. :D