Purple Daze
by
Rose-Bay Willowherb
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Waiting To Open
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows how much I hate Monsanto and the products that they have put on the market. I have great difficulty accepting the contrast of Michele Obama growing organic veggies in the White House gardens while hubby Barack places pro-Monsanto and pro-GM people in the FDA and USDA. It’s like…
This evenings dinner was Pork and Apple meatloaf, served with a carrot and apple salad, decorated with walnuts. This meatloaf was cooked in our halogen oven which we love to use because we don’t pay electric bills. Our energy today was supplied by the sun via our photovoltaic panels – thanks sun. I hope to…
the message Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is a message, just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and every deed. Yes, become who you are. There’s no sidestepping your own being or your own…
I have two lovely twisted trees in the garden, small but lovely, beag ach tá siad go hálainn. They have a beautiful but very small amount of colour at this time of year, it’s not even easy to notice unless you are really close up. The very tip of the opening bud has a teeny tiny little…
A beautiful morning was followed by a beautiful night. I don’t know what the night sky is like where you are dear reader, here in Leitrim it is only gorgeous right now. It’s almost nine o’clock and I have been popping out to keep an eye on the sky for the last hour or so….
I don’t tend towards exageration however I have to say that we are on the edge of environmental disaster here in the North West of Ireland. We are about to allow a few large shale gas mining corporations, using hydraulic fracturing drilling methods, to waltz in here and destroy our watertables, our aquifers – in…