Throughout out hundreds and thousands of years hominids lived in nature. We used our natural world and evolved very quickly because of it. So quickly that we are abusing nature now. If everyone change their habits in just a few little ways in the beginning we could give ourselves back to the earth and make a better place for our children and our children's children and our children's children's children and... you get the idea. A good way to a first start is planting flowers for the pollinators. Of course, knowing that milkweed attracks monarch butterflies, there are a wide variety of pollinators and flowers to be found. Ants, wasps, bees and butterflies, all help us by doing the pollination song and dance. Any kind of flora will be sufficient. One of the easiest plants to start out with for new green thumbs is mint. Besides its food and medicinal purposes, it's easy to grow by doing practically nothing but planting it. Just let it bloom and watch the hordes of pollinators flock to the flowers. The second part to this story is to buy local honey. Where do you think your local honey comes from? From you of course! Bees don't magically make honey. They work very hard for it and in its lifetime a single bee contributes to one and a half teaspoons of honey. By planting flowers around your house, in your backyard, on your windowsill, will in sure you know where your honey is coming from.
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Back to AutumnThe fall weather brings fall water. The dry stream is vibrant with life underfoot.
Crayfish try to hibernate inconspicuously under and between rocks.
A few remaining frogs jump into pools of the stream, while their huge polliwog babies bank themselves. Sticky and cold, I got the suffocating body back into a puddle.
Everyone is starting their long sleep. The spiders chill out, curled up. The fish burrow into the mud. Even the fox bears foot and makes eye contact for a few seconds before trotting off up the dry stream bed.
The glimmer of sunlight shines through the trees picking out every spiderweb. The ripple of the water doesn’t give essence to the sound of the birds and the industrious woodpecker. Locusts and crickets play their final song for the chill gives warning to season.
Still, a dragonfly dances over the floating leaves. My efforts in capturing one on camera are still waiting, But many other insects are settling in, including the young nymphs of the dragonfly.
I wait for the fox to show it’s tiny face, but my smell probably is keeping it at bay. Even the fish scatter when they sense my vibration. Autumn has just begun. The northern creatures will once again fall in rhythm to the endless cycle of the earth.
peoplePeople are very fascinating. We are the most complex organisms in the history of evolution.
Volunteering is just about the best thing one can do. It makes better human beings.
The mind is limitless.
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