THE COMPOST HEAP WE SHARE THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON = ROMANOVS RECENT WEDDING

 SEE NATURE AT WORK

Put on sturdy shoes

Have yellow pitcher at the ready

Fill with Chiquita Banana

label removed

juicy orange canteloupe

simmering with juice

cracked brown egg shells

drippin with whites

one unripe frozen blueberry

and my chipped yellow pitcher.

Gaze like a Stephen Hawking or Edmund O Wilson

at all the insects devouring the fruits of the earth

would we continue if we lived in California

where wildfires glow

houses burn

and Armageddon is at hand?

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My timer is set for an hour when I will repair to Scott's kitchen to eat his delicious lentil pasta linguine. I had a small salad to tide me over.

Ate the salad in my kitchen on a placemat I salvaged from Mom's house.

I eat in there now so I won't attract ANTS in my bedroom.

Yuck !  Ptui !  Grrr!

And I flush them down, these powerhouses of hymenopertera or something like that. 

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The Temple of Poseidon which I learned about on Rick Steves' travel.

• The Temple of Poseidon is an ancient Greek temple dramatically perched on the edge of a mountain jutting out into the sea at Cape Sounion. At 60 meters above sea level, the Temple of Poseidon was constructed between 444 – 460 BC and is considered to be a significant monument from the Golden Age of Athens .

Wedding Bells for the Romanovs. 

Of course I felt slighted that I wasn't invited to their wedding, but I shall read all about it and you may too.

Updated October 2, 2021 at 3:08 PM ET

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Descendants of the czarist Romanov dynasty were married in the country's first royal wedding in over a century — kicking off a weekend of lavish events that sparked public curiosity, awe and derision in seemingly equal measure.

Under the dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral in Russia's former imperial capital city, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov, 40, married his Italian bride, Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, 39, in an Orthodox ceremony on Friday before priests and several hundred guests.

Czarist trappings included an engagement ring "traditionally exchanged in the House of Romanov," according to a press release. "The ring centers a ruby cabochon gemstone that represents love and nobility and two diamond brilliants that represent purity and strength."

The Russian Orthodox Church's top official in St. Petersburg, Metropolitan Varsonofy, blessed the ceremony.

The wedding of the grand duke and Bettarini was billed as the first royal marriage of a member of the imperial house of Romanov in Russia in over a century.

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The clout of Russia's ultra-conservative movement was also on display — with the controversial "orthodox oligarch," Konstantin Malofeev, taking a prominent role in the ceremony and the nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin among prominent guests.

"It's a kind of imperial wedding. A remembrance of eternal Russia — of sacred czars and patriarchs and (the) church," Dugin said in an interview with NPR.

"In an age of 'cancel culture,' when everybody in the West tries to forget your own identity — your own history — Russia offers an alternative process," he added. "We are trying to return to our roots."