{"id":40634,"date":"2013-03-03T02:39:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T07:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=40634"},"modified":"2015-05-31T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T07:40:05","slug":"clearing-out-the-east-woods-weaving-my-nature-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/clearing-out-the-east-woods-weaving-my-nature-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing out the east woods, weaving my nature walls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law of attraction allows us to constantly sculpt our ever-changing future landscape. The last couple of days I\u2019ve been sitting out at my firepit\u00a0each sundown<\/a>\u00a0and during the days reweaving the bamboo and palmetto frond walls<\/a>\u00a0lining my driveway.\u00a0 I love doing physical outdoor work, especially when it has to do with resculpting my ever-changing landscape.\u00a0 I typically keep several temporary, natural and living garden type fences in place by weaving the eleganus and grapevine into each other to form a frame.\u00a0 Onto this frame, I can train the iveys and the vines.\u00a0 While it is bare, if it\u2019s in a place I\u2019d like more privacy, I can weave freshly cut small palmetto fronds into it.\u00a0 Nature has the fronds begin to decay as the vines begin to grow.\u00a0 Perfect timing.\u00a0 Each moving gracefully onto their next evolutionary stage.\u00a0 Humans can learn a lot from watching Nature, a lot about graceful transitions, no need for tearings apart.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I still had not begun my billing, nor had I responded to several emails and messages from clients and advertisers.\u00a0 I drove out and delivered to the stores the rest of the March\u00a0Horizons Magazine (read online free here)<\/a>.\u00a0 I came home and saw the new driveway setup and had more ideas to add to the wall\/hedge lining it. I spent a few more hours cutting palmetto fronds, which meant hauling palmetto fronds from the back to the front.\u00a0 It meant trimming them to size, and also clearing out the fallen fronds I\u2019d cut the season before, now mostly mulch for the floor of the east woods. \u00a0 I stomp on the fallen branches to see what dead fronds I can instantly crumble into the ground.\u00a0 I stomp on the fallen dead branches and toss the campfire sized pieces into a staging area, to later be carried to the firepit.<\/p>\n

I go through the east woods again, this time with the intent to cut away any dead lower branches for pickup next season.\u00a0 I\u2019m mindful to look for the cardinal\u2019s nests and to not expose the giant tortoise\u2019s burrows.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to remember I am in there for one purpose only, to cut quick and get out, not to take all the newly cut fronds to the street.\u00a0 I take a moment to bring to mind a vision of the east woods when they are cleared of deadfall.\u00a0 I think of the young bamboo bones, ready now, waiting to be used.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve got enough to do right now as it is.\u00a0 PLUS billing.<\/p>\n

I just now thought to swap out the horizontal bamboo I\u2019ve got lining the west driveway, with the vertical standing bamboo bones.\u00a0 I\u2019ll work with it this week and see what I come up with.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

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