SUGARY BRAIN

The search for jacaranda trees (a South American flowering tree now spread world-wide, even gone native in some places) as if by magic got the eye twitching at surprising things. Because of misreadings and half-noted statements. No, you cannot keep it in your clothing, that was a site advertising 'maintain your plants'. Plants. L. Not pants. Please imagine the wonders of today's headlines with that going on. which meant that the coffee was hitting parts of the brain but was not fully diffused throughout.

Best take a walk through the neighborhood for the length of time it takes to smoke a pipeful. That way full mental uniformity will have happened when I return to doomscrolling.


The brain did things during that time. Caterpillars in the mist. A virulent non smoker dancing away in a wide curve. Two crows, a bonded pair. A grinning dog. The song 'Safety Dance' earworming. The first refers to earthmoving equipment further down, the second was a white person of a certain puritanical type, the third listed were familar feathered faces whom I have seen many times before, then a pooch doing the needful, and the last a video of Pam Bondi and Donald Trump prancing on an imaginary stage. And no, there is no such thing as 'father and son carnage day'. Sorry Don Junior, you loose again.

Caffeine, nicotine, highly refined sugar. And the brain.
A recipe for mild mental mayhem.

The gently glooing landscape of North Brabant in late summer. Greens, golds, and dust on dirt roads. There is a path from one area near the watermill to the Luikerweg beyond town, lined on both sides with old trees. In another few weeks it will be covered with leaf-drifts.
There is a somewhat tannic fragrance then.

Please note that though the landscape is often described as 'glooiend', that is more or less a poetic exaggereration. It only gloois very mildly if at all. Whereas the landschap here in San Francisco gloois quite violently. Walking uphill is sometimes laborious.

On the plus side: there are no cows.
One the downside: no cows.
Moo.


There are no jacaranda trees here or there. But we do have red puff-ball trees that line some blocks. Their rusty dander may stain your collar in early autumn. Depends on the moisture in the air at that time.



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