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If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it did it really make a sound? If i post a blog and nobody reads it was there really any point? You have entered the random thinking space of Morgan Bell . . . These are my musings . . . things about my life written off the top of my head . . . written in an informal disjointed style almost completely devoid of punctuation, this is where i flesh out writing ideas, discuss my life, and generally be self indulgent . . . it is also the bargain bin for articles which do not fit in with the film or arts themes of my other blogs . . . so have a wander around my mind, have a laugh, have a think, be nice, and humour me!

Less gross than bodily . . .

November 26th 2008 15:40
its a new botanical challenge for Cheryl!
(ok well one of them is clearly a rusty piece of barbed wire, but i just felt like including it)
















My gentle-hearted Charles ! for thou hast pined
And hunger'd after Nature, many a year,
In the great City pent, winning thy way
With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain
And strange calamity ! Ah ! slowly sink
Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun !
Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb,
Ye purple heath-flowers ! richlier burn, ye clouds !
Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves !
And kindle, thou blue Ocean ! So my friend
Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood,
Silent with swimming sense ; yea, gazing round
On the wide landscape, gaze till all doth seem
Less gross than bodily ;

from This Lime Tree Bower My Prison
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


nobody describes the divinity of nature quite like Coleridge!
i always think of this poem when there is a sunny day, its like all the pieces of the world slot together in harmony for a brief moment and you feel in tune with your environment
click, and the tides turn, the current is suspended, and you can embrace that which you usually struggle against . . .
(or does that only happen with a healthy dose of Opium?)
these moments are rare and fleeting . . .
i can appreciate pantheism - it is just so . . . umm . . . well, romantic!


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Comment by Wilson Pon

November 26th 2008 19:06
Oh, what a lovely flowery scene, Morgan...

By the way, would you mind to tell the name for the second pic that have the big red leaves?

Comment by Jason King

November 26th 2008 20:59
Cool pics Morgan - I like the purple flower one the best.

Comment by Morgan Bell

November 27th 2008 00:30
hi Wilson,
i was hoping Cheryl would stop by and enlighten me (im a bit hopeless when it comes to plant identification)
but if she doesnt i will certainly find out for you!


hi Jason,
thanks!

Comment by Cheryl J

November 27th 2008 06:58
Hiya Morgan, I love a challenge. I'm just flying out the door but will post back again later. I just wanted to tell Jason that the purple flower is an African Daisy and I think the very last picture is a Hakea.

Will check properley when I get home.

Byeee........

Comment by Jason King

November 27th 2008 07:25
Thanks CJ - African Daisies are cool!!!

Comment by Cheryl J

November 27th 2008 08:49
In the door and out the door again but...the top one I don't know but it's very pretty! The second one is a Photinia, the third is an African Daisy, the fourth is a type of Grevillia but I'm not sure which one (there are lots!!), the fifth has the Latin name of Barbicus Rustifencius and I'm pretty sure the last one is a Hakea.

And thus ends my botanical quest. If anyone knows what the top plant is I'd love to know, I likey!

Luverley poem too.

Comment by Morgan Bell

November 27th 2008 15:52
hi Cheryl,
you never fail to impress!
Barbicus Rustifencius haha
i will have to investigate the first one, its like a proper tree with a trunk and everything . . . yeah that was helpful wasnt it!
very VERY well done with your plant identification skills!
thanks so much!

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