All Outdoors
It was a somewhat small fish in a big pond. Though measuring just under a foot, this creature would never have to fish for a compliment.
Consider yourself lucky if you are not part of the one per cent.
“Tis not her coldness, father,
That chills my labouring breast;
It’s that confounded cucumber
I’ve ate and can’t digest.”
“Life was simpler when apples and blackberries were only fruit.”
Virgil warned us to be wary of the snake in the grass, but I am suggesting an addition to that advice. Beware of the snake in the water, too!
“Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion,” laments an Egyptian proverb.
Don’t miss the scorpion.
Though it is summer and a busy time...
‘Head to the hills’ is what I want the huge ferocious flies to do.
“A hedge between keeps friendships green.”
“We’ll keep the lavender blooming,” guarantee the folks from Sequim, Wash.
Even if he wasn’t thinking specifically about tularemia, Hans Zinsser knew well the danger that surrounds us. He cynically observed that “however...
Their life can only be described as short and sweet.
It was truly a tree-mendous mystery.
