h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We're aware of the magic only in moments .

So, if you find a pebble with a hole in it on a beach, you can tell a child it's magic. If you take it on and put it on a shelf, it just becomes a bit more clutter. Possibly, what you need is a child.

But many children know little of nature. They need to go out and look for beetles, or tadpoles, to collect those moments of magic!

Thanks for reading.

We just need to open our eyes, child or adult, seek and you shall find......

"Unerring stupidity" seems like an oxymoron.

The pictures seem to indicate that plant life is too wonderful for us to fully grasp. If so, I heartily agree. Some of my neighbors are aggressive about destroying what they consider weeds -- too often, these "weeds" are beautiful plants that I lavished effort and possibily money on. M revenge is that I also collected seedlings form the plants, so I can restore the plantings.

Human self-aggrandizement is too obvious. Take the declining bee populations. As a species, we consider ourselves entitled to steal the bees' honey, and then we wonder why the bees have trouble surviving. Honey is what they need to survive, and we are the ones who endangered their health!

thanks for reading...I think?

too obvious? You are already enlightened, my apologies.

bees...garden full of the bloody things...photographic evidence has 'bee'n Post-worthy.

may all your roads be twisty brother paulh...

I, for one, found this enlightening. And the photos inspiring.

. And friends they may thinks it's a movement......SAYSF.

I'm used to twisty roads.

My world is a beautiful garden. Unfortunately, it goes dormant for six months . I spend those six months planning for next year's plants.

Don't you get birds in your garden paulh

In the autumn, I'll start putting food out in the hanging feeders on my RSPB pole, and watch the birds. Unfortunately, a rat sometimes turns up.

Wow, FWR, your pictures are truly magical. Thanks so much for gracing our pages.

Truly lovely pictures, FWR -they are magical. Thank you so much for all your great entries!

MVP, you get rats in your bird feeders? We get squirrels and chipmunks, but as the feeder is sort of greed-proofed, we don't mind.

Have you tried greasing the pole?

My sister was much amused this spring when Tammy the Chipmunk had babies. One of the small ones kept getting INSIDE the bird feeder, where Elektra would find him when she went to refill. He eventually outgrew the prank, but my sister liked to go out and see if he was there when she came to visit.

"Don't you get birds in your garden paulh" [Minorvogonpoet]

I do my best to attract birds and make them happy. I have huge numbers of perennial sunflowers, which are blooming now. In the Fall and Winter, birds can eat the seeds. I have many Coneflowers and Blackeyed Susans, which make seeds that goldfinches like to eat. I'd love to have hummingbirds, but haven't seen any yet. Salvia and Columbine attract them -- I have some almost-native Salvia on order, which will bloom next Spring. If they can't wait, there are l;oads of Hostas blooming now.

It's not unusual for robins and bluejays to visit my yard. House Sparrows used to nest in my overhang.

I've seen butterflies this year

The rats can't get at the bird feeders. What happens is that the starlings arrive, feed and squawk and make a bit of a mess, then the rat arrives and eats the bits on the ground under the feeders.

I put a guardian ( a kind of cage) over the feeder that contains the fat balls to stop the starlings making too much mess. The juvenile starlings could get between the bars. But, one morning I found a dead juvenile, that had somehow got trapped between the feeder and the guardian.

Sorry to hear that. I take you object to the rats getting the overflow because you don't want rats around.

We're fortunate in not seeing any rats. There are mice indoors occasionally, but there are also cats. Outdoors, there are voles. Voles belong there and are no problem.

Voles b elong therte and are no problem?