It was such a surprise seeing this desert rose
suddenly coming into flower. With all
the rain they haven’t seemed very happy for some time, but obviously now we are
coming into the hot season all that has changed. And they created this beautiful flower.
Its so unusual to see water in the ponds this
time of year, but its really beautiful.
Especially as it supports a huge amount of bird life.
This, believe it or not, is how my new pillow
arrived today in its dehydrated state.
I had to take it out of all the wrapping and
leave it for a few hours until it puffed up into its final shape. I’d never experienced anything like it before
but apparently they send things like mattresses and duvets through the post
like this.
It’s a wonderful pillow that has had very good
effects on my neck that hurt when I woke up. Now it doesn’t hurt anymore.
Yesterday I picked some of these rosella which
is usually unheard of at this time of year.
We have picked very few this year and usually by this time they are
rather dry. Which was the case with
these.
Despite that we picked them but I realized
afterwards that I should have worn gloves.
Being dry the fruit has some rather penetrating hairs that stuck into my
fingers making them quite sore. Even as
I type this the next afternoon I can still feel the soreness. I presume they were going to be used either
for jam/syrup or dried to make tea.
This morning just as the sun was rising we went
and watered our recently planted fruit and forest trees at the end of Buddha
Garden.
There was a hazy morning light which made the
dew drops sparkle. It was magical.
This is what the top of one of our pineapples
looks like right now. I just love its
intricacy and beauty.
These are what our new variety of chillies look
like now. The bushes look as if they are
hung with very intensely colourful Christmas decorations.
I was going through some of my old files and
came across this picture that I took of our gate during last year’s lockdown.
Despite not being able to see very much through
the locked gate I could see a whole tree.
At the time it gave me hope that something whole was there in what was
at the time a very fractured world with the pandemic and going on and many
people fearful of both the disease and suffering economic consequences.
I just happened to be walking by the pond a few
days ago and got this picture on my phone.
Sunsets are really lovely this time of year but seem very fleeting. I was just lucky to be there at the right
time for this picture.
Already it feels very hot and this is reflected
in the fruit and vegetables we are taking to Foodlink right now.
The papaya lovely but of course all the other farms have it as well as us.
Rajan took this picture of the setting sun on
the water in one of our ponds.
At last I have a picture of it.
Did a good morning’s work this morning clearing
up plastic and leaves around the temple just outside our gate. We used the leaves for mulch but the plastic……..ugh!!! Especially this piece in the picture that had
been flung onto the fence.
I took this picture earlier this week in the
little patch of forest just beyond the main pond.
I love how the sun shines on the leaves of the
trees.
We walked through this patch of forest this
evening with a group from Auroville who came to look at our water system in the
farm. It was magical.
