in brambles and heart: September 2009

9/12/2009

first stop

cold springs- mineral king-sequoia national park

9/09/2009

why'd they have to call 'em earth ships!?
i want to build a house like this but, i would call it- mother womb.
http://www.earthship.net/home/begin-here.html

9/08/2009

just got a cool new plant as a present. i always thought this was a peperomia or "watermelon" plant. it's not. it's a prayer plant (maranta leuconeura) and is called so because at night the leaves lay vertical and during the day they lay horizontal-get it?! they kind of fold up in prayer. well the technical term for this is photonasty. hilarious.
oh and i finally found out the name of another favorite of mine-silver skies. aint that purty

9/05/2009

"there's a country spread out in the sky,
a credulous carpet of rainbows
and crepuscular plants:
I move toward it just a bit haggardly,
trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade
to dream in a bedlam of vegetables."

pablo neruda-one of my favorite poets.

9/03/2009

smile.

*daffodil is another name for the narcissus flower. they are the same
*lena dunham is a genius
*goats are good swimmers
*thomas edison was kicked out of school early in life for causing trouble and he once blew up the laboratory where he worked. people told him he would never amount to anything.
*when margarine was first produced, it was required by law to be dyed pink, in order for it to be clearly distinguishable from real butter!
*butterflies taste with their feet-one of my favorite facts!
*dolphins sleep with one eye open
*In 1782 Ben Franklin said that because eagles are thieves, turkeys should be our national bird instead. as if!
*the honey bee can fly up to 15 mph!
*money-pain doesn't hurt forever
*listening to neil young will make you feel like the coolest nerd ever
*the wright brothers were bicycle mechanics!
*herbal medicine will change your life
*the octopus has 3 hearts!
*potatoes were engineered by the incas-one of the only things native to this countlry, not brought over from europe.
*abracadabra is hebrew and the word used to be worn as a charm against disease and misfortune in the kabbalistic tradition
*tattoing in new york was outlawed in 1961 and only became legal in 1997!
*the word carat (think diamond) comes from the ancient use of the carob seed as a measuring tool
*if a skull has no smell it is probably over 3 years dead
*the insect cochineal is used as a dye in food/drink (ruby red grapefruit juice)!
*leonardo da vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously
*it's impossible to lick your elbow
*Americans consume approximately 11 ounces of meat per day, which calculates to approximately 250 pounds of beef annually, more than any other country in the world
*beetles make up 20% of the insect population-that's huge!!
*honeybees have to visit approximately 2 million flowers in order to produce 1 lb. of honey
*patience is a virtue!
*apparently dreamt isn't the only word ending in mt-try creamt as in creamt corn-eeew!
*ants won't cross a chalk line-try it
*babe ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool-he changed it every 2nd inning
*dreamt is the only english word that ends in the letters mt
*the first dictionary was created by chinese scholars circa 1109 bce

in brambles and heart

9/12/2009

first stop

9/09/2009

thinking of you

9/08/2009

gettin dirty

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