Showing posts with label moss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moss. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Book Recommendations From The Haysmers
We picked
the best of 2022 to share with you. Check them out – maybe something will
appeal to you – add them to your wish list and enjoy! Phil and Lunel
LIBRARY
OF LEGENDS Chang
GENTLEMEN
IN MOSCOE Towles
MERCURY
VISIONS Daguerre
WEST WITH
GIRAFFES Rutledge
NEVER Follett
RISING
MAN Mukherjee
ANATOMIST’S
WIFE Huber
LILY AND
THE OCTOPUS Rowley
SALT – A
WORLD HISTORY Kulansky
LOST CITY
OF THE MONKEY GOD Preston
WATER
FROM MY HEART Martin
GIVER OF
STARS Moyes
HALF
BROKEN THINGS Joss
ROSE OF
TIBET Davidson
TIDELANDS Gregory
HOUSE OF
THE SPIRITS Allende
Phil
continues to pick selections from two shelves of Hawaiiana (thank you Walt) one
current one on Hawaiian wood sculptures, and we are sharing one with legends of
Maui. Lunel’s new passion is exploring the many mosses here on our property.
She read SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS by Gilbert and GATHERING MOSS by Kimmerer and
has two other books that catalog mosses with great photos and drawings.
Sunday, August 6, 2017
All In Good Time (papamanawaa)
Elsewhere in a blog entry I mentioned my favorite sign along Mango Road on the way to the ocean, swimming pond at Ahalanui and boat ramp at Pohoiki.
Although the sign is no longer physically there, it read simply, "It is only a matter of time." Being a fan of (Science) Science Fiction, black holes, dark matter, and quantum cosmology**, the message continues to make me smile.
(**One of our many landscaping beds is called "Cosmic Dancer."
When one of our first grand ohia trees died, we excavated a particularly sculptural, twisted root, setting it aside for possible garden art; that was four years ago. Being fond of all things reptilian, I saw its u-shape to be snake-like. I leaned it up against some lava and it sat along the driveway for over a year.
Eventually, Phil got the idea to turn it upside down and hang a wind chime off each end -- and, since I'd not done anything with it I said, 'go for it.' Since then that heavy root has been relocated numerous times as other tasks took priority.
Just recently, I uncovered an area of thick moss that I pulled up and saved in the greenhouse -- not knowing for sure where it would go. This week, however, I realized that our beautiful root would look wonderful as a garden sculpture covered with moss.
The two photos above represent a visual example of how art percolates over time and how time sometimes has its own independent structure so to speak. The first photo is what this 15x12' area looked like after we had begun to whack back the invasive trees, vines and bushes. The second is what it looks like now, with the new moss covered root mounted on where an ohia tree once lived.
Pictured is another example of "all in good time" -- one of the first things we bought was a unique hybrid hibiscus called "Gabriel" -- which promptly succumbed to a common plight here in Hawaii -- leaf mites. It has been severely pruned three times and treated for three years and FINALLY (given time) it is now healthy and blooming. (I almost tossed it out numerous times.)
Note: In Feb 2012, we bought a house in Puna on the Big Island -- while on vacation without really having a plan for the future as such, or even a time table -- more an abstract image of what could be, and a deep trust in our creative power. We discovered two ideas of time in Hawaiian cosmology. The word "papamanawa:" Papa is the Earth-Mother-Goddess -- so we chose to move into the that space, allowing things to flow (while we put in the hard prep-work admittedly.) Another Hawaiian concept is a notion of "vertical time" -- when time stops because we are living in the moment of Nowness. Interesting to see both the philosophical and practical applications
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| 4 years ago -- felling dead tree & beginning excavation |
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| 4 years later -- the root takes its place as garden art |
(**One of our many landscaping beds is called "Cosmic Dancer."
When one of our first grand ohia trees died, we excavated a particularly sculptural, twisted root, setting it aside for possible garden art; that was four years ago. Being fond of all things reptilian, I saw its u-shape to be snake-like. I leaned it up against some lava and it sat along the driveway for over a year.
Eventually, Phil got the idea to turn it upside down and hang a wind chime off each end -- and, since I'd not done anything with it I said, 'go for it.' Since then that heavy root has been relocated numerous times as other tasks took priority.
Just recently, I uncovered an area of thick moss that I pulled up and saved in the greenhouse -- not knowing for sure where it would go. This week, however, I realized that our beautiful root would look wonderful as a garden sculpture covered with moss. The two photos above represent a visual example of how art percolates over time and how time sometimes has its own independent structure so to speak. The first photo is what this 15x12' area looked like after we had begun to whack back the invasive trees, vines and bushes. The second is what it looks like now, with the new moss covered root mounted on where an ohia tree once lived.
Pictured is another example of "all in good time" -- one of the first things we bought was a unique hybrid hibiscus called "Gabriel" -- which promptly succumbed to a common plight here in Hawaii -- leaf mites. It has been severely pruned three times and treated for three years and FINALLY (given time) it is now healthy and blooming. (I almost tossed it out numerous times.)
Note: In Feb 2012, we bought a house in Puna on the Big Island -- while on vacation without really having a plan for the future as such, or even a time table -- more an abstract image of what could be, and a deep trust in our creative power. We discovered two ideas of time in Hawaiian cosmology. The word "papamanawa:" Papa is the Earth-Mother-Goddess -- so we chose to move into the that space, allowing things to flow (while we put in the hard prep-work admittedly.) Another Hawaiian concept is a notion of "vertical time" -- when time stops because we are living in the moment of Nowness. Interesting to see both the philosophical and practical applications
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