For Mike across the Pond #fracking destroys

In the Chronicle of what #Fracking Destroys:

And now for a movie:

Summer morning

My Daily Bread

There's a quiet here today.

The Queen is gone.

the Queen Bee, that is.

Will be forever grateful for Bob and Bob who facilitated a bee rescue from our house.

Only careful practitioners can rescue bees.

The silence of a sound sub audible is still a sound.

Now it's gone. I slept. Now posting late.

I won't blame the bees.

I'll blame the quiet.

Meg

Friday Night Musik

Friday Night Musik

Vermont woman to send syrup in support of Dallas police

Vermont woman to send syrup in support of Dallas police: A Vermonter is hoping to send some support to the Dallas, Texas, police department after numerous officers were killed in an ambush attack.

For crowd fund link:
Vermont Maple Syrup for Dallas policemen

The Gasman Draweth #Fracking

First, a little reading.

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/19/blm-fracking-protests/


Now a visual story by the Gasman

Courtesy of The Gasman #Fracking #Vermont #Pipeline Fight

Courtesy of the Gasman

The fight is on.

First Amendment

Twitter Surfing...If Pokémon Go was narrated by Sir David Attenborough

If Pokémon Go was narrated by Sir David Attenborough: The soothing tones of Sir David Attenborough reveal some insight into the remarkable natural history of Pokémon Go.

Post Office Blues

Rural Free
Delivery,
Means different things
To you and me.
I asked to keep it
Where it was
And has been
For many many years.









Update on our mailbox. After over 100 years, The Post Office has decided Class 3 Cemetery Rd. Is unsafe to deliver to. The weeds tall on the roadside. Road narrow and rough. So the Post Office stopped delivery here. They would deliver to the ditch south of our road. We can't accommodate that request. I would have to cross the road And be vulnerable to traffic that varies in speed. I have been hopeful I could go to the mailbox again. There is something about that, isn't there? So now, my choice was to say I can't make it to the mailbox and they would suffer our driveway and exert more
Energy than necessary. I can dodge dogs, big sucker trucks, lost city dwellers, jump in the ditch to retrieve my mail. No, we have chosen the path where we are renting a box at the post office. If I take Fred to work I can get the mail. Otherwise, we'll pick up our mail when the post office is open and Fred is here-every other Saturday. Rural Free Delivery. Dad is getting a chuckle in heaven.
Oh, and BTW to future residents of Cemetery Rd. Your mailbox will be in the west ditch on Roscoe Rd, even though you don't live there.

Morning Sky

Morning Sky

Monkton,Vermont

Musicians gear up for NoTown Festival

Musicians gear up for NoTown Festival: The NoTown Festival in Stockbridge features 13 music acts over two days.

Vermont (Gaz) Life in Monkton,Vermont #Fracking Report

The #Fracking Pipeline
Is being built,
A neighbor sent this description of
Life near the construction site...

Thanks to Nate Palmer and Jane Palmer
For writing this
And
For their loyal opposition to the
Fracked gas pipeline.

DISCUSSION

For those folks who may have just joined FPF, here is a video about the opposition to the Vermont Gas pipeline that is currently being constructed through southern Chittenden and Addison County.

http://youtu.be/A8n0SL7LWeU

For those of you who are fortunate to not live in the construction zone...here is a quick description of what its like:

Back up alarms starting at 5:30 in the morning. Air that smells more like a city bus terminal than a farm in Monkton. Land being trespassed on and desecrated by work crews. Porta potties being located on land outside the work zone and on private property. Landowners threatened with weapons. Ecologically fragile areas ignored and bulldozed. Permits obtained with incorrect information.

The list goes on and gets longer every day the construction continues.

Please, if you observe other infractions, contact Eileen Simollardesesimollardes@vermontgas.com, louise.porter@vermont.gov and anyone else you can think of (the Select Board) If you don't complain, these things will just continue to happen. Speak up.

I am concerned that the crew is throwing this pipeline in fast and furious so the construction can stay “ON TIME AND ON BUDGET” regardless of safety and environmental concerns. Meanwhile, VGS still doesn’t have all the easements they need to connect the dots.

#Fracking Poetry for Frickin' Friday for Fracking Fighters!

What the Frack?

By popular demand, my comment to the Digger article

http://vtdigger.org/2016/07/21/vermont-gas-unfazed-by-latest-obstacles/

Public fazed. Landowners and farmers, parents, grandparents, children are fazed. Vermont Gaz unfazed. An old rare butternut tree, an elderly friend, a rare sunflower fazed. Vermont Gaz unfazed.

When  I woke up, remembering Friday's Musik yet to be selected.

Not previewed,

But then Joni always rings true...

They Paved Paradise

And put up a parking lot...

Joni....(link from YouTube)

Gaz update #Fracking

The Pipeline through Addison County 

Moves along

In spite of issues.

Next up: Closed door meetings, shhh...

The Digger had a good review of current status:

Link here:

http://vtdigger.org/2016/07/21/vermont-gas-unfazed-by-latest-obstacles/

Meanwhile,

Back with the #Fracking fighters...

A short walk

The tree and the building were one...

A short walk

Reaffirming

Dead wild parsnip tops.
The savior parsnip webworm
Voracious


Then a few raspberries...

Wednesday

Burlington by Ferry Dock

Clover on the labyrinth

Fantastic Tuesday

Dad

Dad

Has been on my mind a lot,

More so since I am in conflict with the post office.

Dad was shop steward at the letter carriers' union.

Paul gave me this after Dad left the material plane.

The irony of a cigarette lighter as a gift from the health insurance,

Well, it is so Dad<3 i="">

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Wild poisonous parsnip and Parsnip Webworm

Link to
 Parsnip webworm on wild parsnip. Corrected link!

Thanks to Ohio State university for this info

http://bygl.osu.edu/bygl_archive2015/content/wild-parsnip-pest-yippee

Friday Night Musik

Link from YouTube

Friday Night Musik

Santana

The Labyrinth



Today I walked the clover covered labyrinth at
All Saints Episcopal Church
It was a Great experience.

Protected plant poses threat to Vermont Gas pipeline project #Fracking Fighter Special News!!

Protected plant poses threat to Vermont Gas pipeline project: A flower could pose the next obstacle for the Vermont Gas natural gas pipeline.

Dedication

Zentangle in Black and White

Summer Colors

Mom and Aliens

It's Mom's Birthday today,

Wherever she may be,

I feel her presence often,

She is inside of me.

For me,

An alien story without words...

I think Mom would be amused. 

Everything He Knew

R. Buckminster Fuller

Was a familiar name in our family banter,

Mid to late

1960's Edwardsville, Illinois.

Our family: parents, us kids, 

extended family, friends.

That's me, on the floor lower left,

Taking it all in.

Today,

I explored a little of the

R. Buckminster Fuller website,

And found his work:

Everything I Know.

Here's a link...

Get lost in it,

Solve the world's problems.

http://bfi.org/about-fuller/resources/everything-i-know

Friday Night Musik

Tgif!

Imperfections

Was trying to edit this picture,
Imperfections were my obstacle.

Link to article for Understanding Autoimmune Function-Disease

https://news.abbvie.com/news/stories/what-makes-immune-system-compromise-your-health.htm#.V3uIZ717-b4.link

Coloring Book for Wayward Gamblers

Star Trek™ Stamps to be Dedicated Sept. 2

Star Trek™ Stamps to be Dedicated Sept. 2


Have a great independence day (U.S.).meg

Plaintain

 Plantain.
Used in my new salve.

Crow Morn

Crow Morn

Friday Night Musik

Have a great July 4th weekend...