Looking out my window this morning, while waiting for the kettle to boil, I am enchanted to see the flaming red heads of the Poinsettia amongst the green folliage of the side garden. I was cleaning out my bookcases recently and found D.H.Lawerence's Morning in Mexico and on rereading found a lovely section on the gay red beauty. It is interesting to see how plants have travelled the world in time and space. Someone has recently found an unknown patch of jungle in Mozambique by playing with Google Earth so now we have cyberspace explorers. Meanwhile we struggle to stop clearing and exploitation of great treasures like the Amazonian Forrest.
A documentary recently on Wild Cuba revealed how this land was once located in the Pacific Ocean and has been moving to many different locations before finally arriving in the site we know it today. What wildlife treasures still live in Cuba; the bee hummingbird and 3 or 4 species of Flamingos. One's heart and mind are filled with esctasy
and these are the joys one needs to cope with the many tradgedys happening worldwide.
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