From YouTube Channel: Morning Music
These are just a few quick shots from my iPhone
of some wildflowers which have recently begun to make their showing...
just walking to and from Bandi's morning bathroom run.
I don't know the names of any of these flowers.
This Autumn...
I will be spreading out a mixture of wildflowers around my property.
Although, I don't want too many sprouting everywhere...
as they will attract too many deer.
The problem then would not that the deer would eat too many flowers...
but of predators of the deer following them up and stalking them
in the forests around my home.
Right now...
it is rare to see any wildlife at my altitude...
as most of the food for deer and other forest critters...
only grow in abundance at lower altitudes.
Without their prey...
the predators don't usually stray up so high as where I live.
I certainly don't want to change that dynamic.
But...
I do love seeing wildflowers blooming in spring.
I wish to make my home a haven of great natural beauty in all seasons.
These are miniature blue bell appearing flowers.
As you can see...
the Aspens are much more leafed out now.
I later hope to put up some bird homes and hang them up on some trees around the forest.
I love seeing wildlife in the forests...
however, at my altitude...
seeing any is a rare instance.
At 9,650 feet (almost 3,000 meters) in elevation...
(most of the deer here only roam at an elevation more than a thousand feet below mine)...
I have not seen even one ant on the ground...
and any flying insect of any type is so rare
that I cannot remember hearing or seeing any for months.
Bandi has no fleas or ticks...
and I have never seen any when I groom her.
My home is actually located in a sweet zone...
a micro climate of gentle weather.
No season gets extreme...
and no storm lasts too long.
The air never gets oppressively humid.
It is actually very dry...
crisp...
and even during rainy weather...
the humidity level hovers around 50 percent...
and that is only during rainfall...
and shortly afterwards...
the humidity level drops back down sharply.
The humidity level is usually in the low 20s.
And...
although we almost always have a gentle mountain breeze blowing...
it rarely blows more than a few miles an hour.
This always brings in more refreshing mountain air...
so I never feel an air of stagnation.
Everything is always so fresh and natural.
I hope to enhance the natural beauty all around me.
I want to eventually live in a sea of colors...
throughout the different seasons.
But...
I also want almost zero maintenance...
and so...
besides planting Japanese Maples...
I will be planting various perennial wildflowers...
and some colorful bushes.
After I seed an area once...
I want them to never have to be reseeded...
as they will either grow and sprout from seeds dropped...
or from the underground shoots they will develop.
I hope to plant for Spring and Summer colors...
as well as some for Autumn.
I still have to do more research as to which types will grow at my altitude.
The great advantage of living at my altitude is that...
even though I am surrounded by a forest...
there are no fleas or ticks...
no mosquitoes...
nary a fly...
and even no ants that I have found.
The rarified air up here is cool...so fresh...
and it always makes you feel so alive just breathing in the air.
It had always been my dream to live in such a place...
and in such a home...
a high altitude mountain chalet.
My home is a refuge from a crazy world...
where my heart and mind may flourish in a sea of tranquility.
And, it is my plan to continually make beautiful improvements
in and around my home.
I love the colors of the sunrises and sunsets...
and I will soon be surrounded with the beautiful colors
of wildflowers and Japanese Maples.
This is where I shall live my life...
and...just as importantly...
this is where I plan to die...
still feeling so alive...
until my last breath.
Once you live in such a place, you can never go back to the smart city lifestyle. The fact that they are trying to force the young into accepting that is proof we need to make a stand while we can. I am looking forward to exploring the area and seeing if my version of paradise already exists, of if I will have to create it.
ReplyDeleteYes, this whole place is a gem. Near enough to the modern conveniences of the cities...but far enough away from them to have peace and serenity. Being surrounded by nature is a cure to the modern day madness. Heaven lies here. The world can go crazy...but up here...you will always have sanity. People here have common sense...for they had properly panned their lives to achieve their dreams...and this place is a dream come true.
ReplyDeleteLove the little splashes of color that the wildflowers provide. It will be nice if you can get even more wildflowers to sprout. My dad tried seeding his property with wildflower and they bloomed spectacularly the first year but less so in subsequent years.
ReplyDeleteLove that there are so few bugs... that would be my paradise, ha.
You make a good point about predators potentially following deer up to higher elevation.
I had just come back from taking Bandi out for her morning bathroom run. I had seen a butterfly for the first time. It was alighting on one of the wildflowers. It makes sense as there must be some kind of pollinator coming up...at least in spring.
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