the ups and downs

I've been posting comments over at survivalacres.com, where passionate apocalyptic types are predicting all sorts of doom - and they don't budge when it comes to putting any faintly rosy cast on the likely future of forms of life on planet Earth. The scary thing is a lot of what is said there (though not all) makes perfect sense! Here's one exchange, if you want to cut and paste this link to follow it http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=1742

and/or check out more pictures from the garden, which is ecstatically verdant, a riot of color and scent with a backdrop of tragic ephemerality.