Water Music

Time just passes, sometimes slow and sometimes fast.

Didn't bring it up to bring you down

I know you are quiet for long stretches of time as you immerse yourself into the pond of music you have created around you. As I watch the ripples spread out across the water, I see all who you have touched as they are tickled into pink happiness by the gentle, expanding, concentric waves of your loving care.

Tall Meadow Rue

Thalictrum pubescens (Thalictrum polygamum)


Thalictrum is a genus of 120-200 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family native mostly to temperate regions.

Tall meadow rue flowers don't have any petals; the white starbursts are made up of stamens. In close-up, it becomes apparent that meadow rue flowers have no petals; the conspicuous part of the flower is the white filaments of the stamens. The plant has delicate, finely divided leaves.





• Family: Buttercup (Ranunculaceae)
• Habitat: swamps, streamsides
• Height: 3-8 feet
• Flower size: 1/3 inch across
• Flower color: white
• Flowering time: July to September
• Origin: native

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Text sources: Connecticut Botanical Society - http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/thalictrumpube.html (June 25, 2012)
Wikipedia

Common self heal or heal-all

Prunella vulgaris, known as common selfheal, heal-all, heart-of-the-earth, is a perennial herb and medicinal plant in the genus Prunella. It grows 5 to 30 cm high (2-12inches), with creeping, self-rooting, tough, square, reddish stems branching at leaf axis.
Heal-all is both edible and medicinal. It is often used in salads, soups, stews, and boiled as a pot herb. It has been used as an alternative medicine for centuries all over the world and for many ailments.




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Birds at 4:30AM

In the pre-dawn, I'm hearing a woodcock's twittering dive song followed by his perched raspy peep.

A robin has just begun to call forth

More robins have joined in, one close by, while the woodcock twitters round & round in its spiral flight

The mating call of the woodcock is something you must hear. It starts early while I'm collecting maple sap late March

Latest Star Photos

from http://stars.cedaredenphoto.com/ and on my YouTube Astronomy Playlist

Venus, Pleiades & Orion set over Main Street, Saranac Lake - April 2, 2012

Venus, Pleiades & Orion set over Main Street, Saranac Lake - April 2, 2012

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Mars and Regulus in constellation Leo • Moonlit clouds - April 8, 2012

Mars and Regulus in constellation Leo • Moonlit clouds - April 8, 2012

Timing

Paths cross
Too early. Too late.
Too this. Too that.
Yet
Eyes meet, a spark across the emptiness
Pupils dilate, hearts flutter
Necks pulse, flush pink
Time slows

And in that brief instant a choice be made:
To pause, to turn, to embrace
The chance of life's love
Or continue on, fate be damned

Are you so certain against all signs
You control the path of your entire destiny
That you will not lay your hand in mine?

Oh Heart of Mine

How trite to say, "Oh heart of mine"
Yet said heart has long sat broken
Not broken, nay, but empty, say,
For lack of word soft spoken

Can ever come the tender tongue
To lay calloused muscle open
So enters in a new begin
True love once more be spoken?

Stellar Photographs and Videos

See all my photographs & time-lapse movies of stars and auroras at http://stars.cedaredenphoto.com and on my YouTube Channel at  http://goo.gl/Yd5ee

Star trails approaching dawn over Lake Flower

Downtown Saranac Lake lights and traffic reflecting in Lake Flower at midnight

Deer on a Lawn

Here are some close-up photographs of deer, captured in A Pocono County Place in Pennsylvania

Night Shots

See all my photographs of stars and aurora at http://cedaredenphoto.com/The-Adirondacks/Northern-Lights/
See my videos of stars on my YouTube channel • Glitch's Cedar Eden Channel: http://www.youtube.com/cedareden

Below are a few examples:

Stars circling Polaris (video time lapse)

Stars circling Polaris (stacked time lapse)

Aurora from Harrietstown

A Winter Night, Passing

After the crowds have all gone home
And life turns into life
Nights pass ever so slowly alone

Black as damp obsidian
On a moonless coastline
With the inky sea receding

Cold as northern lights
Reflecting off the clearest ice
On a sunless arctic tundra