Poem: "The Three Ladies"

This is the freebie from the July crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from acelightning73. It also fills the "Diaspora" square in my 7-1-24 card for the Games and Entertainment Bingo fest.

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Birdfeeding

Today is mostly sunny, humid, and warm.  We got a good soaking rain last night.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a flock of house finches, a lady cardinal, a mourning dove, and a fox squirrel.

EDIT 7/28/24 -- I planted 8 naked lady bulbs: 1 at the end of the old fishpond, 1 in the wagonwheel garden, 2 by the barrel garden, 2 in the purple-and-white garden, and 2 under the maple tree.

Two gladioli are blooming in the telephone pole garden: one red with white edges, one pink with white throat.

EDIT 7/28/24 -- I broke up branches in the ritual meadow and threw them in the firepit.

EDIT 7/28/24 -- I did a bit of work on the patio.

EDIT 7/28/24 -- I picked 1 yellow pear and 1 red cherry tomato.  A red zinnia is blooming in the septic garden.  :D

EDIT 7/28/24 -- I sowed some blue and yellow false indigo in the prairie garden.  It is a nitrogen fixer and insectary plant.

I saw 2 bats swooping around the edges of the yard.  One circled me, inches away, so close that I could see its body was lighter brown than its wings.  :D

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Thermohaline Cycle

Is an Atlantic Ocean current collapse imminent?

We don’t often see a scientific paper that uses the word warning in its title. But a new paper published July 25, 2023, in the prestigious journal Nature does use that word. It describes an imminent collapse of a key system of ocean currents, due to global warming. The paper is titled Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

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