Rain Garden Perennial
Vase Nov. 1, 2012

Tonight I posted on Flicker pictures from our time last week in Costa Rica. These pictures of nature’s beauty are quite the opposite of the nature’s destruction from the storm on the East Coast that flashes before our eyes day and night.

Today I remembered to take a picture (on side) of the rain garden perennial vase in my living room. I am happy to say that I was able to keep fresh flowers in the vase from March 1, 2012 thru October 31, 2012. From daffodils in March to roses still blooming in November the rain garden has added a dash of natural beauty to our home.

Yesterday I finished listening to the last book in the “Hunger Games” trilogy. In these apoplectic books the ugly nature of human beings is shown in its full strength. The story is set in the future, when deadly reality and deadly games become one, but it is really about our lives right now. Bits of beauty pop up and seem to outlast all the destructive forces of human nature.

This view of nature, natural and human, as both beautiful and ugly can apply to our perspective of everyday life. Some looked at reality with colored glasses. For example, I got an email to protest a Romney visit tomorrow since he is talking about an increased military budget. Yet the same peace group has no plans to protest President Obama who has increased the military budget and established killer drone warfare when he visits here on Saturday. Talk of money to kill for some seems more meaningful than actual killing of people. The result, no matter, who wins it will mean more money for the military, despite the USA military budget is larger than the ten other major military budgets in the world. Nature does not play games.

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