Beltane                                                                        Beltane Moon

This is exactly how I feel about animals. They are other nations. I discovered this quote in the office of our new vet, Dr. Palmini.

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.   Henry Beston, author of the Outermost House

Beltane                                                                               Beltane Moon

I took this video and these photographs on my into Evergreen for Mother’s Day presents. Our picnic in City Park had to be moved to Jon and Jen’s due to the possibility of snow and/or heavy rain. A most peculiar May here I’m told by locals.