Some photos today.... the first hour of the morning, from 6 to 7. I get up early, a clean fresh morning with the sun coming through the copse at the back. A mug of tea, a slice of toast, a breakfast probably eaten all over our country. Then the letting out of bantams, feeding of the birds in the garden accompanied by Lucy. We wander down the rose bed, the doves will follow me down, the roses are past their best, and the insects are still not up. The oil man arrives at 7 am, we are first on his beat. Sets me thinking, listening to the news and the fracas that is going on in the Gulf, the man on the news says that the stopping of oil tankers by the Iranians is not unusual, that this latest event is in response to us stopping an Iranian tanker taking oil to Syria. War games are all about economics. Further thoughts flit through my mind, are we responding to the fear of no oil? We discuss this over morning tea, how will this country change all our oil/gas boilers, how will we heat our homes? Actually there are some green answers but they seem clumsy compared to what we have got and inherited. There again coal fires were replaced by central heating, the human race is ingenious when it comes to solving problems but do we have time ;)
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| see the pollen beetles |
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| green beans starting |
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| first call of the morning, see the 'orange snake' that sends Lucy scurrying to the safety of a chair |
Your dog is a "wuss". Anybody can see that that's a hosepipe and not a snake. I liked the picture of the pink roses...even with the pollen beetles.
ReplyDeleteDogs live in a different world to us, and yes she is a 'wuss' can't stand the window cleaner and her 'yellow water snake' either.
DeleteMy roses were ravished by the Japanese beetles but we pruned the bush and hope that will help revive it for another bloom in late summer. This is my last rose bush; the other five could not handle our weather or bugs.
ReplyDeleteClean energy is available but it’s use is discouraged by the powers of big oil.
Think there is a fight back beginning, the young are taking note of big oil companies, at the moment their funding of galleries in the City. As for the beetle, it is a nuisance, must go and read up more about them.
ReplyDeleteI have gas for everything where I live now - for the first time. I find it a little scary.
ReplyDeleteMy friend has this week bought a Hybrid car and is just getting used to it. Yes, things are changing.
Gas is a bit scary but does the job I suppose. I remember when 'natural' gas first came onboard...
ReplyDeleteThe problem with change is it takes time. Eventually, it'll all level out but in the meantime, lots of inconvenience.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of, was it Gore, an 'Inconvenient Truth'. Anyway change will of course take change. Someone was talking on the radio about mixing soil, water and air in one of these machines that make everything as a possibility!
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