july at 719 - let it be

the garden is lush and bountiful, almost all the potted plants (tomato, pepper, cilantro, dianthus, lettuce, etc) have been placed and there's little room left for anything else until the garlic, rutabaga, fava, potato, and peas are finished - then it's time to plant winter crops.

dandelion haven at 719

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birds (pine siskins) love our bit of wild surrounded as we are by poisoned wasteland (aka lawns) - ever watch birds up close eating dandelion seeds?

jumble of fish

yesterday was a meltdown day, picked dandelions in the morning, had some shrooms and went to bed a nd cried for the rest of the day - not a total loss since i got to thinking about how women cry more than men and therefore clear their ducts regularly and perhaps see more clearly.

it's been a long time since i had a good cry and this one was for everything, and i mean everything, life as we know it and all that.

today i'm back to my somewhat usual self and have been quite productive - just finished potting some beautiful tomato and pepper seedlings, 2nd generation on this little corner of the world.

the dandelions are another matter, they've been here a very long time and this year they are big, fat and juicy - ray and i have picked about 60 quarts so far, most of it for 20 gal of wine and some for fritters and pie.

what prompted this blog was Bernard Lunn's Main Street Web which got me to thinking about twitter and various other social media like this blog and that i need to use them and learn about their utility as tools for om/cc development rather than avoid them cause of the complications - time is of the essence, and i fear we're not keeping up - everywhere i look i see apocalypse and i can't look away.

so now i'm going back out to pick some more dandelions cause they just keep coming up - they're so beautiful and i get to commune with the bees, ants and ladybugs that are feeding on the rich nectar this incredible plant exudes.

i tried uploading some pics yesterday to picassa but couldn't for some strange reason - will try again today, maybe shoot a vlog out there.

earth day critical mass komoux

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riders came from cumberland, comox, courtenay, royston, and other parts of the komoux valley for the second earth day critical mass ride through downtown courtenay to the fair grounds.

waterboard challenge #2 03/08/08

this i put together and uploaded in short order (2 hours) - not much raw vlog to process, all i had to do was cut a bit here and there - abrupt beginnings, transitions, and endings but it's up, whatever that's worth.

the only additional equipment cost so far has been a used camera for $110 and have i mentioned the $300 computer running kubuntu.

waterboard challenge march 1/08

waterboard challenge

i now have my own camera, a sony dsc p150, found on craigs list (thanks a lot) for $105 - have shot lots more than what's up but as i get better with the linux editor, kino, i intend to get my garden vlogs up soon - good discipline for learning, thank semanal.

cv peace demo feb 9/08

every saturday for over a year now the cv peace group has held a noon hour demo in downtown courtenay, bc.

this is the third vid for semanal, shot with a borrowed sony cybershot 4.1 and edited using kino on a kubuntu linux system.