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April 30 an "empress" nearbyToday I found out the name of the purple-flowered tree that grows between our shop and the house next door; it is called an "Empress tree" or Princess tree, a.k.a. the Paulownia tomentosa. I found a picture of the flower, leaves and seed pods at: http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/emptree.html
Some sites found on the internet say it is a valued tree while others consider it a pest. I have come to expect that statement about just about everythign that grows. I have seen no evidence of this particular tree leaving thousands of seedlings to grow unchecked. The blossoms smell wonderful, and are strewn all over the walkway in today's rains. This site: http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/pato1.htm seemed to have the most available information on it, about it's introduction around 1840, which is about the time houses (in this town) were sprouting up, coincidentally. According to the wikipedia:
"In legend, it is said that the Phoenix will only land on the Empress Tree and only when a good ruler is in power."
I read elsewhere that the belief states that the tree should be planted by the house so the Phoenix would come and protect them, and bring good luck. There is a pattern of reparation in the shop's brick, on the west side of the building, that I think looks like the Phoenix. Legend may contain some unusual truths. Speaking of odd, yes, my montage for the day may seem a bit odd at first, but I was just counting a little...showing a different perspective. And insofar as perspective goes...I am a little behind still on science stories. One story starts out, "OK, I’ve done the math. What you always suspected might be true … is true: namely that the best place in the solar system to see a total solar eclipse is Earth." (http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_egypt_eclipse_060427.html) Good going, Seth (Shostak); we have an option for viewing solar eclipses?MSN's horoscope for me today included this: "At this time you are especially attuned to telepathic messages, and you may send out a few yourself." Would that surprise anyone? April 29 "this might be possible"S T R E A M O F C O N S C I O U S N E S S Today is April, 28th, the 17th Friday in the year 2006. ** This is my horoscope: "A new endeavor is about to get underway, so learn all you can about every step you need to take. Educate yourself on all the possible methods, and you might just be able to pull off something really innovative."Innovation goes hand-in-hand with imagination , an inoculum of life that allows one to believe that ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, and to move from that stance forward into whatever opportunities come available through honoring that belief, thus keeping one immune from a closed mind. So, since I started another blog of sorts, the horoscope may be right in that if I educate myself, with whatever it is the universe is trying to input into my ever-wondering mind, I may, indeed, be able to pull off that which they are asking of me. My beau brought me the colored pencils and my crude maps of the yard, so I could sit and color if I so desired. I took the time yesterday to walk most of the yard, mapping out where the perennials are so I will be less likely to dig them up come the next planting frenzy. I have them now and again, when I come across plants for the dividing at a friend's yard, or a romp in their woods. So, before I started to write, I took a photo of the pencils sitting upon my elementary charts. I noticed that the word STEP was visible in the photo I took of the drawings, so I now know I am on the "right path". Miracles, of sorts...I started with the h2ogenius journal, them found the coincidence and sychronicity became more of an everyday occurrence so I started writing the minor miracles down in the last journal, My Mosaic of Minor Miracles and I don't think that which I write about are minor miracles anymore, thus the change of name, etc...besides, I just prefer this particular moniker. I had other blogs I started with the Rii4u name, on other sites, and there are some pages out there on geocities, yahoo, etc., links can be found via the My Mosaic of Minor Miracles or h2ogenius journal. I am writing in the stream of consciousness style that suits me best, and is generally written in the order of occurrence. INNOVATION ...I went to the MSN homepage, where the word INNOVATION caught my attention, so I checked it out, and found a story that interested my A.D.D. brain for a moment: an olive branch unearthed in volcanic ash has apparently caused some scientists to understand a certain history must be re-written.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz That's as far as I got. **Today is not the 28th, it is now the 29th, and there are many reasons I did not get this posted, but who cares. T oday is another day. I have learned that sometimes I don't need to push myself to the point of exhaustion, sometimes I can just relax and let some things go. So again, I am writing, in hopes of actually getting this posted. Today is Saturday, and the HGTV channel is running as I type. A few minutes ago, I started a montage, formerly I called these collages, but...anyway, I began my usual, and started with a "disguise" kit I saw on my yahoo mail background, and as soon as I pasted it, I heard on the HGTV program (9:05 AM) the word "disguise" so I figured I was in sync and to go from there.
A headline caught my eye, and when I went to paste it into the montage, it landed where it made sense in many respects, so I left it there and went on. I saw a link at the bottom of the page and thought hmmm, water, my previous H2O moniker, and realized the WATER link went to> http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/water/ , a new movie. The AOL front page included a headline so I copied that, because the same word I used yesterday was present in the headline, the word INNOVATION. And so I move on again. My connection to the internet has been disrupted three times since starting this entry this morning.I remembered I wanted to put a photo of a pot (in which I accidentally boiled the water away) because I liked the design it made. I made the photos a few days ago and never got around to putting it on the journal. So the trailer page finally opens and I read, "Water is a story that pulls at the heart." I read a little about the movie and then decided to go do yard work for a while, because the computer went off a couple of times, and we were expecting rain at some point. Hours later, I am again in front of the computer, and opened the Rhymes with Orange cartoon, seeing the third frame of the cartoon and the words "OOPS! You set the water too hot ...Voila! You've made "a dog sweater". "A dog sweater" iImmediately translated into the anagram "sea water God", one of many possibiities. Speaking of water, checked radar and it appears it went around us again so maybe we will get some later. Going through cartoons...just ran across Drabble and inserted part of that into my montage.My beau came in and turned the TV back on again, National Treasure is on now. I have to wonder if I will ever get this entry done, lol. I go back to the montage and highlight the word treasures, already in the montage. Wizard of Id, and I see the words, uh...how do you spell intelligence? and of course, I think about how "spelling" (cauznefx) seemed to be where I started with my interest in documenting certain instances from my everyday life. "Maps have legends, maps have keys", says the character on the television, as he works through a riddle, and decides there is an invisible map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. So, I figure I am not getting any work done outside, and should get back outside before it rains. The "maps" of yesterday, but not the collage of yesterday, and that which I finished today, are the two pictures shown below. As I ready the post to publish entry I hear one of the characters say, "This might be possible." The other says, "It might."
Everything is possible. |
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