storms

Nature Bends

| Flower Roberts

It seems that I am the most grateful when I am perched on the edge of a disaster. I saw the tipping point yesterday.

I am on the other side now. Listening to wind howl. Watching snow that cannot hit the ground. Seeing dancing trees that only yesterday at three o’clock were white with heavy ice.

A rain came at four and washed the ice off. The crashing down of the ice layer went on for hours. The trees were free again.

Ice-free trees can bend, not break.

That is the lesson here. Nature is made to bend. Forces may make the trees sway and bend, but but breakage only occurs to unyielding things.

Do you bend and yield?

Or will you stand up straight…and break?

FLOW

Tattered but Still Standing

| Flower Roberts

When is a banana tree like a palm tree?

After hurricane winds.

Zeta was amazing yesterday. I will not share all the mess that must be cleaned up.

Instead, I will share how nature survives by design.

Banana trees have huge leaves and no trunks.

They are held up by water pressure in the non-woody stems.

During storms the big leaves tatter along the veins to let the wind pass through.

Zeta tattered the banana leaves until they look more like palm fronds.

Sometimes to survive the big hits you have make some concessions.

Better tattered and standing than lying on the ground.

I need to remember this lesson from my Mother Nature.

Flow