INTO RECIPES, OUT TO COMMUNITIES; Ingredients within Communities of Flora and Fauna; Ingredients into Recipes, Recipes towards Communities.
Garden plants and non-garden plants and my growing or gathering of them
Usually I spot plants outdoors walking past them at whatever pace everyone (including myself) I am walking with is at (often everyone’s quickest pace for the conditions and distance, but whether slower or quicker, or stop and go, even so, it usually is hi and bye to the plants, but if lucky, this is many times through seasons and years). From time to time, I collect a leaf or two, or a part of a leaf, but usually for an immediate intake or application, and not for later consumption. Therefore, I do not generally collect many plant parts outdoors, and so this is not a blog about gathering native plants.
Generally, I gather together ingredients at the grocery store, but this isn’t a blog about selecting great fruit and vegetables either.
I like making recipes from other recipes, or from ingredients on hand, and so this is for the most part, just a blog with a few recipes (many that include information on whether or not they are dog friendly).
To do justice to “Into Recipes, Out to Communities”, this website ideally would also be about depicting “Ingredients within Communities of Flora and Fauna”, and perhaps also “Recipes towards (Human) Communities”.
When just beginning this blog, and thinking about recipes and the inter-connectedness of communities of flora and fauna, and how plants and animals grow together, I wrote this poem:
Might song-birds prefer certain sounds and sun-patterns?
Do plants prefer certain songbirds gather and make song?
The sound of these trees when they blow in the wind, and the songs of those insects also make them happy.(?).
(Wingbeats of birds, distributing exhaled molecules)
Making. Gathering. Gatherings.
Might insects
(Busy as a bee)
Tending. Gathering. Gatherings.
Path-songs. Place songs. Song paths.
Places of sound, light, rhythm.
Theirs-Ours. Come-go. In-Out.
Wing-span.
Melody.
Do they name?
(their music, our music, music).
Do you hear the courting mouse’s song? He is in the garden,
at woods’ edge sharing his song – light,
like a birdsong in the dark.
(Song Light, written by Sarah Sniffen, March 24-25, 2019. Inspired in part by a painting about motion, sound, and grasshoppers, a passage from a book about birds in and out of cities,and their abundance, a raspberry (with its green worm), an assignment to write about a painting, the Melody Composer script on Google from a couple days ago – which by the way, was seriously fun…)
Walking, and looking at trees, breathing in and out, one also wonders how fast Carbon Dioxide spreads (googling, perhaps CO2 can clump). Do birds bathe leaves with this chemical species? (March 25th).
Sarah