As I was walking to the Garden of Unseen Helpers, I really liked the way that the sun shone through these leaves. Unfortunately though I wasn’t careful enough about the lighting so it doesn’t show how the sun glinted on the leaves and made them sparkle.
These last two days have been very hot and bright and the soil is getting extremely dry.
I’ve been doing the Buddha Garden Food Growing
Diary today and had the idea to have the cover to include a picture of the
Auroville soil. Since we have recently
had a lot of digging done it was easy to find soil that had the red tinge to it
that is characteristic of the soil here.
It was a good idea that unfortunately didn’t
work when it came to making the cover.
It just didn’t look right with the lettering I am using.
We got more holes dug and this is in the corner
of the little wood which we are going to plant with bushes that butterflies
enjoy.
We will call it the butterfly corner.
Today we started preparing holes for tree
planting. We’ve had some holes dug and
today we filled them up with soil and compost and then mulched them with
glyricidea and the brown sticks of sugar cane.
I was very pleased with what we managed to do.
Spent most of the day doing the corrections to
the second edition of my book ‘Hands and Earth Together’. There aren’t that many but it seemed to take
a long time. One correction is that the
subsidiary title is ‘How we practice Earth
friendly food growing in Buddha Garden’.
I think it will now fit better with the colouring book which I’ve called
‘Earth Friendly Food Growing’.
The picture is of a recently planted papaya tree. All part of getting ready for the monsoon
rains.
Rajan is very pleased with his new bike that he
bought today. Neither of us, however,
can quite understand why the price went from Rs18000 down to Rs13000! And it happened without any special negotiating.
Maybe they just liked his smile.
This morning we marked out where the new bed is
going to be around the trees we are going to plant in the middle of the Garden
of Unseen Helpers.
Doing this seemed to change the energy of the
place which felt very magical.
