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] amaebi.livejournal.com 2014-04-10 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-04-11 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com 2014-04-11 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
(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