Books and rain
While traveling, I took several books along with me to read. First book, A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future by Benjamin Vogt. A book for today’s environment and every gardener should read.
Second, Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson. This is a just published book that is an eye opener on the troubling state of insects today. It is in the same vein as Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring. I highly recommend it.
What a wonderful rain yesterday! We ended up with 1.96 inches. Some of you got more and some less. But I think would all agree it was much needed!
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Keep looking!
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
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Those look like good books. 1.05″ of rain here.
Love the spider webs. Always feel guilty when i accidentally disturb one. Especially if spider winds up on face or in hair.
I know…I apologize to them for ruining their web.
What a great day to see spiders! We have a lot of jumping spiders but not nearly so many webbed ones in our yard yet. but I am glad to see predators. Means we must have some critters to eat??
Thanks for book recommendations.