A moment of beauty from today. I was out, and saw a monarch butterfly flying (I suspect they have started their migrations because I've seen a number of them in the past few days.
One alighted on a zinnia and let me take its picture.
According to symbolism, monarchs are symbols of rebirth and being on the right track on life.
I'm still a little under the spell of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, though, and I wanted to bring you some musical beauty. I had such a strange dream last night, maybe from watching the coverage of the 9/11 commemoration in my native New York City.
But I did want to share something else with you today before I go. I saw this performance, as it happened, on television.
It bought me to tears.
Here is Bruce Springsteen yesterday at the 9/11 commemoration held at the World Trade Center site in New York City, singing "I'll See You In My Dreams".
More music tomorrow for #MusicMovesMe.
I have been DVRing all the specials this week. I will have to space them out to watch.
ReplyDeleteAll our milkweed came up this year, but we had very few visiting monarchs and just three chrysalises. The milkweed looks bedraggled now, as it always does this time of year, but in a good year, all the leaves are eaten by this time. Not this year. What's going on?
ReplyDeleteNot knowing where you are or what's going on there, I'll mention what I've seen where I am. Bayer exhausted appeals (and the lifespans of many of those cancer patients) and was ordered to compensate people who'd got cancer after spraying "Roundup" regularly. Farmers were also ordered to stop spraying "Roundup" directly on food as a ripening agent and/or insecticide. Bayer even pulled "Roundup" off the market for part of 2020. As a result many people found relief from chronic conditions in 2020. Then, this spring, Bayer and other companies were left with a lot of glyphosate to use up and their preferred method was to push stores to sell more "Roundup" and similar sprays to homeowners (and road and railroad maintenance people). More glyphosate has been in the air this year, in some places, than in the bad years 2009-2019. Milkweed and many other wild flowers, as well as non-GMO food plants, have been visibly affected.
DeleteThis will pass; lackadaisical as the federal government agencies have been about "balancing" human lives against profits, glyphosate is going out. The pressure needs to be kept up to keep corporations from replacing it with some other "herbicide" spray that might be more toxic to more people...and butterflies, of course.
Other things can affect local plant/butterfly populations, of course. Some are even normal and harmless--bigger plants, then shrubs, then trees tend to crowd and shade out smaller plants. Despite having a lot of hammers I do remember (and remind people) that not everything is a nail...
...and Trump was a boxing match. What a classy guy!!!
ReplyDeleteThere’s a reason he’s called “the Boss”. Perfect choice for the occasion. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteZinnia I real like, their meaning is friendship.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Glad you've been able to see the monarchs. I can't with the 9/11 coverage. It puts me right back in that day. So, I've been avoiding (and crocheting the octopus hat--which I just finished).
ReplyDeleteFor all my flowers I haven't had a single monarch since I moved here. Loads of native milkweed too. Too much, it's quite invasive.
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