The nightblooming cereus

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbzi8XydHQc

Poem: A Blade of Grass, Brian Patten

You ask for a poem.


I offer you a blade of grass.


You say it is not good enough.


You ask for a poem.

I say this blade of grass will do.


It has dressed itself in frost,


It is more immediate


Than any image of my making.

You say it is not a poem,


It is a blade of grass and grass


Is not quite good enough.


I offer you a blade of grass.

You are indignant.


You say it is too easy to offer grass.


It is absurd.


Anyone can offer a blade of grass.

You ask for a poem.


And so I write you a tragedy about


How a blade of grass


Becomes more and more difficult to offer,

And about how as you grow older


A blade of grass


Becomes more difficult to accept.

Video: Beautiful mountains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxhUtQBcri8

A New Hive

Art to save the disappearing honeybee.

http://anewhive.blogspot.com/

Legend: Everett Ruess

Alone, I shoulder the sky,

And hurl my defiance

And shout the song of the conqueror

To the four winds,

Earth, sea, sun, moon, and stars.

I live!

http://everettruess.net/

http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/everett-ruess/david-roberts-text

Words: Where the Wild Things Were, William Stolzenburg

http://www.conservationmagazine.org/articles/v7n1/where-the-wild-things-were/

Proenneke's cabin

30 years in the wilderness.

http://www.nps.gov/lacl/historyculture/proennekes-cabin.htm