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There is a tribe of these lovelies eating one of our Jasmine trees. They are, sadly, not smoking hookah’s and did not ask me, “Whoooo are youooo?”
Outra criatura de Alice no País das Maravilhas encontrada na fazenda. Achei ela comendo as folhas da nossa árvore de jasmim. Infelizmente, ela não estava fumando um cachimbo e não me deu nenhum conselho.
I haven’t posted in nearly 2 months. I’ve been a horrendous blogger. (There are many excuses for this: I was traveling, working, and then my blog’s database crashed and I had to wade into weird and stressful programming jargon like MYSQL and PHP to fix it. But excuses are lame and the truth is, I still feel strange blogging. Many days, I’m not quite sure what to post, or who is interested.) In an effort to redeem myself, here is a picture of a baby rat.
We have country rats here. (They are cleaner and more naive than city rats.) They make nests in roof tiles and try to gnaw into our feed bins. This particular rat’s nest was in a roll of plastic screening in our storage house. The rats scattered. Our dogs went crazy. Oscar ate this blind baby rat shortly after we took its picture. We scolded him, but he wouldn’t cough it up. So the rat is now immortalized on the web.
Considering the Snail
by Thom Gunn
The snail pushes through a green
night, for the grass is heavy
with water and meets over
the bright path he makes, where rain
has darkened the earth’s dark. He
moves in a wood of desire,
pale antlers barely stirring
as he hunts. I cannot tell
what power is at work, drenched there
with purpose, knowing nothing.
What is a snail’s fury? All
I think is that if later
I parted the blades above
the tunnel and saw the thin
trail of broken white across
litter, I would never have
imagined the slow passion
to that deliberate progress.
Some Alice in Wonderland creatures found on the farm. The first, mushrooms. The second, caterpillars. (The caterpillars are not smoking hookahs, unfortunately.)
Algumas criaturas de Alice no País das Maravilhas foram encontradas aqui na fazenda. A primeira foto, cogumelos. A segunda, lagartas. (Infelizmente as lagartas não estão fumando hookas).
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