Some springy flowers

 I took these photos last Wednesday, when it was 73 F degrees.

And I met my downstairs neighbors S?, and Josie and now know Lois lives below me. Maybe I'll remember S? name as it was a surname and I kept repeating it in my brain hoping to remember them all. Since I remembered the other 2 it's possible it's still there in the little neurons floating around. (I'm thinking maybe Sandford...)

These tiny hyacinths had that awful drainpipe behind them.  I'll cut it out in the next photo.

But the horrible phone shadow remains!

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Today's quote: 

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence.

RACHEL NAOMI REMEN ---------------- Today's good news: I love how natural climate solutions can often be better and cheaper than technological ones. Just take what happened in the Czech Republic recently. A new dam on the Klabava River south of Prague to protect critical habitat and endangered crayfish had been on the books since 2018. But the project ground to a halt after hitting bureaucratic delays.    Meanwhile, a colony of beavers took things into their own paws, building a series of dams in the same locations the engineers had planned to. The dams created a wetland that covers almost five acres, saving the Czech government some 1.2 million euros. “It’s full service, beavers are absolutely fantastic and when they are in an area where they can’t cause damage, they do a brilliant job,” said Bohumil Fišer, the head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Area.   “Beavers are brilliant ecosystem engineers and can transform habitats for a huge range of other species,” says Alastair Driver, a rewilding specialist and the former head of conservation for the U.K. Environment Agency.  “I spent decades of my career [in the U.K.] rewiggling rivers and installing leaky dams. Beavers do it for free, one thousand times better than people like me ever did.” Beaver ponds are a haven for wildlife, including fish, amphibians and birds, and their dams help improve water quality as well as providing flood and erosion control. And that's not all; the wetlands built by beaver dams sequester carbon, which helps mitigate climate change. Thanks Katharine Hayhoe ---------------- Today's art: Claude Monet, Woman Seated under the Willows, 1880. -------------------- Family Album for today: Granddaughter Cayenne, Grandmama' Barbara (me), Grandson William Granddaughter Cayenne and William. Of course a grandmother loves her 30 year old grandson who still looks like he's 15. No matter how they look, who they love, and what they do (as long as it's legal and ethical) I love them to the moon and back!