Nature
Roses With Famous Names
Composers Composer George Frederic Handel has a lovely rose named after him It is a climber rose that grows to almost 8 feet. The blooms are lovely and fragrant in pink and it produces larger blooms that are semi-double. Mildly fragrant the flowers bloom repeatedly from late spring to early summer.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Earth
My Father and His Bradford Pear Tree
To call my dad stubborn would be insufficient. He wasn’t merely stubborn, he was intractable. When he set his mind to something it was a guarantee that he would not budge from that position. He was, in many ways, quite different from the tree that he spent so much of his time defending. The legendary Bradford Pear tree is notoriously sensitive to the elements. It’s branches fall in the weakest of breeze, most are born barren and when they do bear fruit it’s rarely on any kind of expectation.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Earth
Yasha sat by my grandmother's pear tree and thought deeply about the world and people's struggles.
Yasha had spent his whole life on my family's farm. I had raised him here. He knew of nothing else and only could guess what a city was from the stories I would tell him. Yasha worked hard. He helped me in the fields all he could, but he would often get distracted, wandering off chasing some butterfly or the call of a little bird from the woods. But Yasha never wandered too far. He always skipped right back after he noticed that he’d left me working by myself. He was my little tail and would almost never leave my side. While I walked, he would follow just a step behind, and sometimes if he wasn’t paying attention, he would gently poke me with his horns. Every time I let out a little yelp, but every time I would feel guilty for verbalising this pain as an overly apologetic expression would glisten in his eyes for the rest of the day. Yasha had the most beautiful eyes. They weren’t a brilliant blue or a deep golden hazel, they were black. But his eyes weren’t just black, this black talked even if he couldn’t. It would sparkle a little brighter when I told him an interesting story. Yasha’s eyes were more human than my own. They were his character.
By Greg Dolgopolov4 years ago in Earth
A few scarabs stroll along the underside of the water's surface
Some small insects can walk along the top of water. This is all thanks to water's unique abilities. Water molecules can attract one another. (A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together.) When these molecules bond together near the water's surface, they make a film on the top of the water. This is what scientists call surface tension. It allows some tiny bugs such as water striders to easily glide on top of the water.
By Mashud M Alfoyez 4 years ago in Earth
The mask and the gloves save lives ... and furthermore contaminate
A pandemic is a sickness that contaminates many individuals rapidly and in many spots. Coronavirus is another influenza-like sickness that previously showed up in December 2019 and has since spread all throughout the planet.
By Mashud M Alfoyez 4 years ago in Earth
An Ode to Autumn!
The first thing I do when I see trees in late August or early September is to scan the whole tree and see if the leaves have started to yellow. I don’t know where it came from but for as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by how steadily autumn consumes the lush green leaves until it turns yellow and golden and falls to the ground.
By Worngachan Shatsang4 years ago in Earth
Mechanical advances in archiving tremors
Structural plates are enormous pieces of rock. They make up the Earth's covering or hard external layer. They additionally make up the highest mantle. This is the layer directly beneath the covering. Structural plates move gradually after some time.
By Mashud M Alfoyez 4 years ago in Earth
Garden
The word for ‘paradise’ comes from the Persian word for a garden and has always meant the same thing in every culture. It is representative of ‘paradise on earth’ and is our opportunity to own a little bit of heaven – here and now. It has a restorative significance as a healer when we understand that gardens provide us with a place of sanctuary and well-being.
By optimuSPrime4 years ago in Earth
Soft
Look at me and what do you see. People say I have outside that nothing gets to me. It’s like when they look at me all they want, is for me to give them a leafy green to hold onto; However I’m holding you up so you can get to the top. So I say here on the leaf, get on I have what you need.
By William Lavergne 4 years ago in Earth
