sorta silent Saturday with "The President"~~I mean the tree

This is the first full-length shot of "The President" - the biggest tree on earth.
It's in Sequoia National Park, 3,200 years old and 247 feet tall.
The portrait was taken by National Geographic, and it's actually a mosaic, made up of 126 photographs in order to capture the whole thing.
The President is not the tallest tree in the world – that honor goes to a California redwood, which stands 379 feet (116 meters) tall – but in terms of mass, it's the largest.
....To give you some perspective, that tiny red dot at the bottom on the left is a person!

June holidays~~~ National Repeat Day

Repeat what, you might say, well how about June, June is a lovely month if you don't count the occasional humidly thundery day.  Let's repeat, let's repeat. Let's hope its a good day worth repeating worth repeating.  Repeat what ever pleases you, I repeat pleases you.
Or just repeat something and keep repeating it.






Month:

• Aquarium Month
• Candy Month
• Dairy Month
• Fight the Filthy Fly Month
• Gay Pride Month
• National Accordion Awareness Month
• National Adopt a Cat Month
• National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
• Rose Month
• Turkey Lovers Month

Weekly Events:

• Week 1 Fishing Week
• Week 2 Email Week

June, 2014 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:
1 Dare Day 1 Flip a Coin Day 2 National Bubba Day 2 National Rocky Road Day 3 Repeat Day (I said "Repeat Day") 4 Applesauce Cake Day 4 Hug Your Cat Day 4 Old Maid's Day 5 World Environment Day 6 National Doughnut Day always the first Friday in June 6 National Gardening Exercise Day- Get out and exercise with your plants. 6 National Yo-Yo Day 7 National Chocolate Ice Cream Day 8 Best Friends Day 8 Name Your Poison Day 9 Donald Duck Day 10 Iced Tea Day 12 Red Rose Day 13 Blame Someone Else Day - first Friday the 13th of the year. 13 Friday the 13th 13 Sewing Machine Day 14 Flag Day 14 World Juggler's Day - Saturday closest to June 17th 15 Father's Day - third Sunday 15 Smile Power Day 16 Fresh Veggies Day TBD Nursing Assistants Day - First day of National Nursing Assistants Week 17 Eat Your Vegetables Day 18 Go Fishing Day 18 International Panic Day 18 National Splurge Day - Oh yeah!! 19 World Sauntering Day 20 Ice Cream Soda Day 20 Take Your Dog to Work Day Friday after Father's Day 21 Go Skate Day 21 Finally Summer Day- Summer Solstice 21 National Hollerin' Contest Day - third Saturday in June 22 National Chocolate Eclair Day 23 National Columnists Day 23 National Pink Day 24 Swim a Lap Day 25 Log Cabin Day 25 National Catfish Day 26 Beautician's Day 26 Forgiveness Day 27 Sun Glasses Day 28 Insurance Awareness Day - Now who do you think invented that!?! 28 Paul Bunyan Day 29 Camera Day 29 Hug Holiday 29 Waffle Iron Day 30 Meteor Day

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haiku ..in the ruins

stone by stone by stone
rising from it's foundation
or then falls to it

"gave springtime a miss and went straight on to....

Winter was long and harsh and cold and how I longed for Spring.  And I waited, but not not so very patiently for it. 

And then spring came!

And it came with a rush

And a swirl of everything that had been waiting to bloom.

Everything blooming at once.

Every blade of grass, every tree every, weed, every seed

exploded to life.

One week it was sleeting and the next week

there were tiny leaves on the trees.

Rare sights!

And i relished them all,

Bridalveil bush

forsythia

red flowering juice

jonquil

wood Hyacinth

dog toothed violet

periwinkle

yellow lady slipper

trillium

blueberry

apple trees

scilla

columbine

forget-me-not

lily of the Valley

lilac

celdane

 all are in bloom at once.

I think it unlikely I will ever see this again.

 

  

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Then there are the blossoms I don't know the names of.   Ah so many things, simple things that make my heart sing. 


The Old Farmer used to say that "if it's a good lilac year, it's gonna be a good garden year."    And so it goes on this first day of June, this first day of meteorological summer.