ever decreasing circles.

Fuck me! The other day I saw the first geese heading south. This morning we had the first frost. What the fuck is happening. It was just like yesterday I was telling someone that there was still snow on the mountains in mid May. That is 4 months of not shit weather! Where has the time gone? Where have the days gone? Where the fuck have the years gone?
Slippery slope and all that?
Fuck it! Might just think about a wee winter holiday somewhere warm! I know, just back from Greece, but what the hell! Time flies and I still want to do and see a load of stuff!

 

I'm gonna dread the day I take in the hummingbird feeders... There's one or two birds still hanging around, but not for long.

 

As the years pass, the nights draw in, and Time; like the geese going South, - FLIES

 

like sands thru the hourglass

so are the days of our lives

 

Someone once asked me what we're doing here, like, what it's all about. I said, "Well isn't it obvious? We're here celebrating our temporariness, and the drink of choice is a thing called years. And the more we drink of it, the more drunk we become. Soon enough we become more slow in our reactions and sometimes ornery. And before long we start becoming less sure in our step and much slower. And after drinking in enough years, you can no longer keep up with those who've so far drank only half the years you have. You might try to keep up with them, but you end up falling and hurting yourself."

 

I think today was the last day for the hummingbirds... The young female was out there this morning and another one dive bombed her at the feeder... couldn't tell if it was a male or female. Neither seemed to be here this evening.

That one young female kept flying up to me if I was sitting out on the patio... about 2 feet from my face and would just hover there, checking me out... She was likely born here this summer. I know it's all instinct, but I wonder how a young bird like that knows where to go south for the winter without others showing the way.

If she's not out there tomorrow, I'll take in the feeders, clean them out and put them up for the winter...

 

So what are the ever decreasing circles?

 

Years seeming shorter as you get older...


Just a guess.

 

I thought maybe liver spots

 

Those get larger and more numerous, they don't decrease.

 

I read that you should leave the feeders because some birds do Winter-over and you're helping them survive.

 

The birds are dying, the bees are dying, the fish are dying, the frogs are dying, the turtles are dying, the coral wreaths are dying, the predators are dying, and we are facing the largest extinction event in the history of the planet, along with global warming. Your low-low low as you can go tax dollars at work.

 

But Hip Forums lives!

 

The spark within can never die, and mother nature will not let her children perish from the earth, but we will have to do the footwork.

 

I'm too far north for them to winter over... When I was in California outside Yosemite that was the case and I kept them up all year.

 

Okay.

 

Charities like the WWF will do studies targetting particular species and publish studies for the press that say particular species are being decimated

But total world sea, animal plant life the last 40 years has been increasing

 

Unfortunately most of that increase is invasive species introduced into areas they aren't supposed to be...

 

Also, more livestock is being reared just to keep up with the ever-growing demand for meat. Could be a contributing factor. Or are those dumb beasts not factored into the equation.

 

polar ice caps.