Down in the Park

 

Pardon my redundancy

as I go to the park

and into the garden again

 

 

 

It's down the rabbit hole again

come along with RAY

 

On my way

to an instinctual

roost

 

 

The venerable Palmetum

 awaits with

its offer of solitude

 

Strange object in the grass

on my way in

 

 

Under every blade of grass

every flower

war and peace

 

 

Into the sensual garden

the realm of the senses

 

 

Subset of the larger garden

 

These were teeming with bees

 

Close-up

 

Rocks and water

make a solid road

 

 

Colors compel

 

Colors astound

 

My girlfriend is a

Zen rock

 

Large Bonzai

almost an oxymoron

It is stunted though

 

 

Bonzai garden

not today

 

 

These leaves are shiny green on top

and bright red on the bottom

 

Shaggy furry palm trees

like something out of Doctor Suess

Movie magic feeling

in the Palmetum

 

 

Another plinth

whose plaque was stolen

This one was in the shape

 of the state of California

Unscrupulous smelters buy them

from barbarian thieves

 

With my raptor's eye

I spy a fire

on the other side

 

 

Lawnmowers leaves big clumps

of mowed grass 

 someone set one alight

The flames were fairly high

 but it's just smoldering now

 

 

 

The fire truck had a problem

 getting to the fire

After a long wait for it

 it drove away again

Roadway still incomplete over there

 

 

 What happened

 

 

asked the neighborhood fishes

 

 

Octopi Oakland

Would eat this octopus?

you would if you were

hungry enough

 

 

 

Whole food up the Amazon

where they now have first

and second class citizen shoppers

Bezos has $141 billion

 

I don't mind the scent

of fresh fish

 

But I prefer the scent

of fresh flowers

 

 

 

 

 

 Same weather pattern every day

since groundhog day

 

 

 

 

 

16 June 2018