
Category: plants
Mushrooms, mushrooms

Past-prime mushroom fading back into a burned stump. The area we walk in suffered a serious fire ten years ago.
State of the fruit trees

Lemons: going bonkers as usual

Oranges: from fewer than a dozen to date, this looks like it may be the breakout year

Avocados: after a barren year, indications are we can again anticipate hundreds this season.
Yikes! Spikes!

Palo borracho: tree-hugger’s nemesis
Disappearing chives

We’ve always, it seems, had garlic chives In this planter, which we largely ignored. Until this year. And now something else has decided to eat them. Ants? Other critters? No clues I can find as to what it may be.
Finally!

After an incredible harvest of avocados (paltas) during which on some days I felt, Shit, I have to eat avocado again, a season with zero – nada – zilch. But aha! Today for the first time i see evidence that we will have another harvest!
Dune flowers

A volunteer mushroom
Flipping back the lid to my little worm composting setup revealed a mushroom that had grown inside, upside down.

Avocados (paltas)?

We’ve gone a year with no avocados after having more from our two trees than we knew what to do with. Looks like they’re getting ready to go crazy again?
The dream and the moth
Ever since The Matrix was released in 1999, more and more attention has been given to the thought that maybe we live in a simulation. Search for simulation hypothesis and you’ll potentially be busy for a while. Then there’s the idea of the reincarnation trap, the idea that we are fooled into reincarnating by the Archons so they can harvest fear energy, and we remain trapped in devastations and wars of this simulation again and again. Essentially, the advice of going toward the light is a huge spiritual deception. When you check out of the body, you should go away from the light. Nota bena, Shirley MacLaine.
I woke up early this morning and, not wanting to get out of bed, lay there thinking and dozing. I thought about this light thing, wondering what it would look like, and then I was in a dream, in black space, seeing it. Aha! I turned away and found myself face to face with a large bright television-like screen. I started to look at it, then abruptly shifted my focus back – they’re trying to block the exits! So I decided to simply go around it, and I don’t know what more happened, but then I was awake again.
I went downstairs to a remarkable sight. My office window was open more than I would have left it – nod to a certain dog here – with screen removed, as it often is. In the downstairs bathroom I saw this:

A huge black moth on the ceiling, exactly centered on the window.
I have seen moths a few times in Uruguay, but not many, and never huge (this one is about 5 inches/12.7 cm across). And never black.
So I gently opened the window, carefully removed my homemade screen, closed the bathroom door, turned off the ceiling light (just in case), and gently touched the moth with a piece of newspaper. It was gone in a second, fluttering out the window…
…and into the light.