Well, shuckins, if we're gonna compare Nature in our different parts of the world...here in the western-most part of the Florida panhandle, it is 33 degrees on my front porch...we rarely have snow...but the recent number of hurricanes has confused our bugs and flora. Four major hurricanes last year...and this year it was worse, larger and stronger storms. My area is still 'home' to Katrina's evacuees. People's lives have been changed as they have never been changed before...because of 'Nature'.

Love bugs, normally a Spring 'thing' when they fly their enjoined loving selves thick as dust in number...reminding me of one of the 'plagues' of Egypt because they enter into the car or house when the doors or windows are open...and they adorn every vehicle on the road with their smashed and sticky bodies....appeared also in September and October. I wondered if there is a new vortex opened in this area, a new magnetic field that was drawing yet a different kind of love to the area. Mmmmm. :rolleyes

The blueberries were short-lived, ripening much too quickly and falling off the bushes. The buds of scuppanongs on my lone vine promised a bumper crop and then myteriously disappeared from off the vine. Nary a one stayed to ripen to maturity.

Likewise, the figs appeared but never grew or matured, but stayed and died on the tree as young, green fruit.

The flowering bushes in my friend's extensive garden in Pensacola didn't know how to act...Spring bloomers bloomed in October. Roses were still blooming last Tuesday, our first day of freezing weather this year. Even my azaleas put forth tentative buds in late summer!

The mighty oak trees of the area are thinned of branches and leaves, and not so stately looking anymore. Old and tall, with spreading branches like mighty arms, they held the brunt of the strong gusty winds blowing first from one direction, then the opposite. Closer to the coast, the salt water of the Gulf of Mexico has confused and harmed the flora greatly.

These are just the things I noticed...I'm sure there are more that I'm just not out in Nature these days to be aware of. After the business of spring cleanup in my blueberry patch and the yards around the house, 'weather' discouraged me from being outside. Unusually hot and humid. And then the 'canes began. From June to November they visited the Caribbean and seemed to favor the Gulf coast. Some 'tropical depressions' developing even last week...exceeding 26 this year so that the weather bureau had to begin using the Greek alphabet to name them.

The times they are a-changing. And discussing the heart of the One has become discussing the heart of Nature...but it is still the heart of the One, yes? The Heart of the One has been cleansing and renewing the earth and saying, 'Take notice of Me...take notice of yourSelf...awaken, My Love!' As a 'taken for granted' and 'ignored' wife, Nature has 'let herself go' and become 'ugly' and unpredictable. And is reminding us how truly integrated and important ALL aspects of 'life' is to all its parts.

Ah yes...the immaculate heart of Father/Mother, so long taken for granted or misjudged by the object of its unconditional and wholly loving intent...is loving us still...displaying its wonders to us in ever new and different ways. Telling us how WE are the co-creators of all that is happening on the planet, if we but have the ears to hear and the eyes to see that it is time to re-member......
Leela
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