Saturday, August 18, 2012

Summer Wearing Down

Today, Saturday, up at 4:30 am.  Walking for 4 miles starting at 5:30 am.  Watering plants.  Weightlifting at the Tehama Family Fitness Center from 8:30 am to 9:20 am.  Attended Tami's yoga class from 9:30 to 10:45 am.  Purchase a new Aptos blue redwood tree for planting in the front yard.  Rest indoors and read in the afternoon when the temperatures are 98F.



Our gardens keep us busy watering.  Our "Sunny" vegetable garden has been very productive this summer.

About one month left before the beginning of autumn.  It might be best to say that the summer (100F+ daytime temperatures) is wearing me down, rather than summer is wearing down.  In a way, both are true.  




I enjoy those paintings showing men or women bodies made out of vegeatbles.   The painting below by Arcimboldo gives you an idea of what I mean.  Basically, visual variations on "we are what we eat."





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  1. Jennie12:28 AM PDT

    Last year for my birthday I received "Fifty plants that changed the course of History" Laws, B (2010). There's an interesting box under the entry on 'sugarcane' about how digestive enzymes break down the sugars present in all foods & when we consume pure/refined sugars the digestive system has no 'work' & so stops producing the enzymes & gets lazy... you ARE what you eat.

    The book "The Botany of Desire: A plants eye view of the world" Pollan, M (2001) gives a fascinating account of the relationship between humans & plants.

    J

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  2. Michael P. Garofalo7:34 AM PDT

    Thanks for the reference to Michael Pollan's book "The Botany of Desire."

    Since I have diabetes, and follow the lifestyle program recommended by Mark Hyman M.D.("The Blood Sugar Solution"), I avoid sugars. I see the same recommendation to avoid eating refined sugars in many other dietary programs.

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