Flower Time. Work and Emails Done.
Coffee, checking snapdragons and pollinating vanilla vine.

Work done marking done feedback done marks registered, Stack of emails delete the lot, Important ones will resend, Job done.
Really enervating, Marking good papers easy, Poor papers struggling to award marks.
Made some delicious coffee, Black and strong feisty and tasty, Raining outside, Sitting in LED garden refreshing body and mind.
Contemplating garden like monk in Zen Garden, Meditation on flowers from favorite perspectives, Know each plant changing each day, Buds appearing growing and flowering, Cycle of life, Intuit my role in greater scale, Comprehending climate interactions and dependencies, All from my little garden.

One thing to talk about it or write about it, Quite another to see beautiful vine.
Flower nodules sequentially bloom eight to ten each day, Hand pollination, Successfully done pods start immediate growth, Unsuccessful flowers close then drop off, Vine relentless, Miss one day loose 10 pods.
My vine appears unusually vigorous, Plenty of light fertiliser and water, Absence of bugs, Fussing attention particularly with caring for aerial roots.
Feel privileged having opportunity of understanding commitment and skill needed for farming vanilla.

Sequential planting shows life’s renewal and continuation, Older blooming snapdragons making way for youth and vitality, Promises of glory in carmine pink amongst Kale.
Blessed be.
