Garden Tripod 30

GTARDEN RIPOD ART Issue 30 April 2015

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GTARDEN RIPOD ART Issue 30 April 2015

Cover Image Lost In Time

by Cliff Vestergaard

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Editor’s Review Office News Hound Rabiah Seminole Blue Horse Mukwa Equine Retirement and Rescue Center

14 Vision by Cliff Vestergaard 24 Environmental impact of pesticides 26 Little Creatures 48 Herbicide 52 Tumby Bay SA 54 Haka …

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Land of the Long White Cloud Rainbow Lorikeets & Galah

by Larry Lingard-Davis

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GTARDEN RIPOD ART Editor’s Review

Hi Folks, We have an amazing selection of images for you this month along with some details of pesticides and herbicides that have been used as man wages war against nature.

We also have a fantastic set of images from the Haka … Land of the Long White Cloud Group, this is a Red Bubble group hosted by Larry Lingard-Davis, along with a wonderful collection of bird images from Larry.

In our featured in the CGCGWU group we have added a tiny section of products that are available from each artist. The sizes are not to scale .. just given as examples. Hope you enjoy and if your looking for a gift for a friend who likes art .. then look no further, RedBubble and Fine Art America have it covered .. from lap top covers to leggings .. it can all be found with the most amazing art work printed on.

The Garden Tripod has also found amazing photographer Cliff Vestergaard who has kindly allowed his image titled ‘Lost in Time’ to be shown on the Garden Tripods cover this month, We like this image as its sums up how things feel here in the office at the moment. One of our office dogs has sadly passed away and this passing has had an impact on everyday life in a way that no one could have predicted. So we have 2 issues missing from this years Garden Tripod, and it only April !

As always .. we are keeping the text real, so spelling mistakes and grammatical errors are all here for free.

Ed

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GTARDEN RIPOD ART Office News Hound

Its been a strange start to the year as my ‘big brother’ has left this world. He was not a blood brother, but was living in the cottage with my folks before I was born, so that makes him my big brother in my eyes.

We don't know his real birthdate as he was a rescue Saluki before he went live with my folks. But he has been with them for 11yrs, so he was very old. I used to be his little helper when be became a little unsteady on his legs, the one thing I will remember the most about Joseph is that indoors ..and out ..he never once barked.

I am only three years old .. but my ‘big brother’ has always been around for me, now I am having to adjust to his going, and its not easy… I miss him so much. My folks have had a pillow made so we can still see him, its where is basket used to be .. I love the pillow

Joseph Gore

Stay Safe Princess Summer

RIP Joseph Gore 2004~ 2015

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Blue Horse Mukwa Equine Retirement and Rescue Center My name is Rabiah Seminole. I live in Chase City, Virginia. I am the Founder/Director of Blue Horse Mukwa Equine Retirement and Rescue Center. We are a 501 c 3 non profit organization that has been going strong since 1999. We are the permanent home to 40 horses. We also rescue dogs and rehome them to suitable families.

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Environmental impact of pesticides From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The environmental impact of pesticides consists of the effects of pesticides on non-target species. Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, because they are sprayed or spread across entire agricultural fields. Runoff can carry pesticides into aquatic environments while wind can carry them to other fields, grazing areas, human settlements and undeveloped areas, potentially affecting other species. Other problems emerge from poor production, transport and storage practices. Over time, repeated application increases pest resistance, while its effects on other species can facilitate the pest's resurgence.

Each pesticide or pesticide class comes with a specific set of environmental concerns. Such undesirable effects have led many pesticides to be banned, while regulations have limited and/or reduced the use of others. Over time, pesticides have generally become less persistent and more species-specific, reducing their environmental footprint. In addition the amounts of pesticides applied per hectare have declined, in some cases by 99%. However, the global spread of pesticide use, including the use of older/obsolete pesticides that have been banned in some jurisdictions, has increased overall.

History While concern ecotoxicology began with acute poisoning events in the late 19th century; public concern over the undesirable environmental effects of chemicals arose in the early 1960s with the publication of Rachel Carson′s book, Silent Spring. Shortly thereafter, DDT, originally used to combat malaria, and its metabolites were shown to cause population-level effects in raptorial birds. Initial studies in industrialized countries focused on acute mortality effects mostly involving birds or fish.

Data on pesticide usage remain scattered and/or not publicly available. The common practice of incident registration is inadequate for understanding the entirety of effects.

Since 1990, research interest has shifted from documenting incidents and quantifying chemical exposure to studies aimed at linking laboratory, mesocosm and field experiments. The proportion of effect-related publications has increased. Animal studies mostly focus on fish, insects, birds, amphibians and arachnids.

Since 1993, the United States and the European Union have updated pesticide risk assessments, ending the use of acutely toxic organophosphate and carbamate insecticides. Newer pesticides aim at efficiency in target and minimum side effects in nontarget organisms. The phylogenetic proximity of beneficial and pest species complicates the project.

One of the major challenges is to link the results from cellular studies through many levels of increasing complexity to ecosystems.

Eliminating pesticides Many alternatives are available to reduce the effects pesticides have on the environment.

Alternatives include manual removal, applying heat, covering weeds with plastic, placing traps and lures, removing pest breeding sites, maintaining healthy soils that breed healthy, more resistant plants, cropping native species that are naturally more resistant to native pests and supporting biocontrol agents such as birds and other pest predators.

Biological controls such as resistant plant varieties and the use of pheromones, have been successful and at times permanently resolve a pest problem. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) employs chemical use only when other alternatives are ineffective. IPM causes less harm to humans and the environment. The focus is broader than on a specific pest, considering a range of pest control alternatives. Biotechnology can also be an innovative way to control pests. Strains can be genetically modified (GM) to increase their resistance to pests. However the same techniques can be used to increase pesticide resistance and was employed by Monsanto to create glyphosate-resistant strains of major crops. In 2010, 70% of all the corn that was planted was resistant to glyphosate; 78% of cotton, and 93% of all soybeans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_pesticides

25 Persistent organic pollutant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. Because of this, they have been observed to persist in the environment, to be capable of long-range transport, bioaccumulate in human and animal tissue, bioaccumulate in food chains, and to have potential significant impacts on human health and the environment.

Many POPs are currently or were in the past used as pesticides. Others are used in industrial processes and in the production of a range of goods such as solvents, polyvinyl chloride, and pharmaceuticals There are a few natural sources of POPs, such as volcanic activity and vegetational fires, but most POPs are created by humans in industrial processes, either intentionally or as byproducts.

Public concern about contamination by POPs exists, due to the multitude of evidence showing the negative effects of POPs on human health and the environment. Several compounds have been identified as hormone disruptors which can alter normal function of endocrine and reproductive systems in humans and wildlife. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes have also been linked to POPs. Exposure to POPs during pregnancy has been linked to developmental defects in the resulting offspring. There are many risks and effects of having these chemicals in our environment. After these pollutants are put into the environment, they are able to stay in the system for decades causing problems such as cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, immunological, behavioral, neurological and reproductive disorders in humans and animals.

The effect of POPs on human and environmental health was discussed, with intention to eliminate or severely restrict their production, by the international community at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

Chemical properties POPs are characterized by low water solubility, high lipid solubility, semi-volatility, high molecular mass, and stability. This allows for bioaccumulation in fatty tissues of living organisms and slow metabolism, which confers the compound's persistence and accumulation in food chains.

Halogenation with chlorine, bromine, and fluorine and aromatic rings resists hydrolysis. The greater the number of halogen substitutions, especially chlorine, confers greater resistance to biological and photolytic degradation, resulting in POPs' hallmark stability and environmental persistence.

Long-range transport POPs enter the gas phase under certain environmental temperatures and volatize from soils, vegetation, and bodies of water into the atmosphere, resisting breakdown reactions in the air, to travel long distances before being re-deposited. This results in accumulation of POPs in areas far from where they were used or emitted, specifically environments where POPs have never been introduced such as Antarctica, and the Arctic circle. POPs can be present as vapors in the atmosphere or bound to the surface of solid particles. POPs have low solubility in water but are easily captured by solid particles, and are soluble in organic fluids (oils, fats, and liquid fuels).

POPs are not easily degraded in the environment due to their stability and low decomposition rates. Due to this capacity for long-range transport, POP environmental contamination is extensive, even in areas where POPs have never been used, and will remain in these environments years after restrictions implemented due to their resistance to degradation.

Bioaccumulation Bioaccumulation of POPs is typically associated with the compounds high lipid solubility and ability to accumulate in the fatty tissues of living organisms for long periods of time. Persistent chemicals tend to have higher concentrations and are eliminated more slowly. Dietary accumulation or bioaccumulation is another hallmark characteristic of POPs, as POPs move up the food chain, they increase in concentration as they are processed and metabolized in certain tissues of organisms. The natural capacity for animals gastrointestinal tract concentrate ingested chemicals, along with poorly metabolized and hydrophobic nature of POPs makes such compounds highly susceptible to bioaccumulation. Thus POPs not only persist in the environment, but also as they are taken in by animals they bioaccumulate, increasing their concentration and toxicity in the environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant

Little Creatures by relayer51 LINDFORD, UNITED KINGDOM

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Another Fly. by relayer51

Ugly Bug by relayer51

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Tiny Bug by relayer51

Fly Up Close by relayer51

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Macro Bee by relayer51

Old Timer by relayer51

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Hoverfly on Rose by relayer51

Shield Bug by relayer51

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Jumping Spider by relayer51

Brimstone by relayer51

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Little Creatures by EbyArts Mortimer123 Sandra Sengstock-Miller  Clare Colins

Vibrance by EbyArts

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Upside down or downside up? by Mortimer123

Busy Bee Toowoomba Queensland Australia by Sandra Sengstock-Miller

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A tiny one hidden in the green by the pond by Clare Colins

Canada

THE ENVIRONMENT ACT (C.C.S.M. c. E125)

Non-Essential Pesticide Use Regulation Regulation 286/2014 Registered December 17, 2014

THE ENVIRONMENT ACT (C.C.S.M. c. E125)

Definitions 1(1) The following definitions apply in this regulation.

"Act" means The Environment Act. (« Loi ») "allowable pesticide" means a herbicide described in subsection 1(3). (« pesticide autorisé ») "herbicide" means a chemical or biological agent or other product or substance registered under the Pest Control Products Act (Canada) that is manufactured, represented or used as a means for destroying, preventing, controlling or mitigating weeds or other plant life. (« herbicide ») "inspector" means an inspector as defined in The Noxious Weeds Act. (« inspecteur ») Prescribed pesticides 1(2) For the purpose of subsection 40.10(1) of the Act, every herbicide is a prescribed pesticide, unless it is an allowable pesticide.

Allowable pesticides 1(3) For the purpose of section 40.8 of the Act, the herbicides set out in the Schedule to this regulation are allowable pesticides.

Exceptions to prescribed pesticide ban 2 For the purpose of clause 40.6(e) of the Act, a person may use a prescribed pesticide for the following purposes or activities: (a) to destroy, prevent or control a species of plant that is poisonous to humans by touch, such as poison ivy, poison sumac and giant hogweed; (b) to destroy, prevent or control an alien invasive plant species that may negatively affect the health of humans, the environment or the economy; (c) to destroy noxious weeds under authority of The Noxious Weeds Act, if the pesticide is applied by an inspector or a person acting under the direction of an inspector; (d) to maintain specialty turf that is used for lawn bowling, lawn tennis or cricket; (e) to maintain fields used by professional sports teams or fields used in internationally sanctioned sporting events; (f) in a scientific experiment or for research purposes, if the director has given prior written approval to its use.

Non-Essential Pesticide Use Regulation

Sale requirements re prescribed pesticides 3(1) A person may sell a prescribed pesticide if all of the following conditions are met: (a) before the pesticide is sold, it is located or secured in a manner that prevents it from being accessed directly by the public; (b) the seller makes reasonable inquiries and is satisfied that the purchaser intends to use the pesticide for a purpose and in a manner that is permitted under the Act or section 2; (c) the purchaser is given information specified by the director about the circumstances under which the pesticide may be used.

3(2) A person who sells a prescribed pesticide must keep records that set out (a) the name and registration number under the Pest Control Products Act (Canada) for every prescribed pesticide sold; and (b) the number of units of each prescribed pesticide sold, based on container size.

3(3) A person who sells a prescribed pesticide must maintain the records kept under subsection (2) for a five-year period and provide the records to an environment officer on request.

3(4) This section does not apply to a person who holds a valid pesticide dealer licence issued under The Pesticides and Fertilizers Control Act. Coming into force 4(1) This regulation, except section 3, comes into force on the same day that The Environment Amendment Act (Reducing Pesticide Exposure), S.M. 2014, c. 21, comes into force.

4(2)

Section 3 comes into force on May 1, 2015.

December 17, 2014 Minister of Conservation and Water Stewardship Gord Mackintosh

43 SCHEDULE (Subsection 1(3)) LIST OF ALLOWABLE PESTICIDES A herbicide that contains any of the following active ingredients is prescribed as an allowable pesticide: – acetic acid – ammonium soaps of fatty acids – Chondrostereum purpureum strain PFC2139 – citric acid – corn gluten meal – fatty acid – iron (ferrous or ferric) sulfate – iron, if present as FeHEDTA – lactic acid – liquid corn gluten – Phoma macrostoma strain 94-44B – Sclerotinia minor – soap (potassium salts of fatty acid) – sodium chloride – Streptromyces acidiscabies strain RL-110T and Thaxtomin A

http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/regs/annual/2014/286.pdf

Left behind in the garden shed by Justine Gordon

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Trumpet Vine by Barn Window by Laurie Minor

Kale by WildestArt

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Green, Green Heart by metriognome

Herbicide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Herbicides, also commonly known as weedkillers, are pesticides used to kill unwanted plants. Selective herbicides kill specific targets, while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed. Some of these act by interfering with the growth of the weed and are often synthetic mimics of natural plant hormones. Herbicides used to clear waste ground, industrial sites, railways and railway embankments are not selective and kill all plant material with which they come into contact. Smaller quantities are used in forestry, pasture systems, and management of areas set aside as wildlife habitat.

Some plants produce natural herbicides, such as the genus Juglans (walnuts), or the tree of heaven; such action of natural herbicides, and other related chemical interactions, is called allelopathy.

Herbicides are widely used in agriculture and landscape turf management. In the US, they account for about 70% of all agricultural pesticide use.

History Prior to the widespread use of chemical herbicides, cultural controls, such as altering soil pH, salinity, or fertility levels, were used to control weeds. Mechanical control (including tillage) was also (and still is) used to control weeds.

Ecological effects Commercial herbicide use generally has negative impacts on bird populations, although the impacts are highly variable and often require field studies to predict accurately. Laboratory studies have at times overestimated negative impacts on birds due to toxicity, predicting serious problems that were not observed in the field. Most observed effects are due not to toxicity, but to habitat changes and the decreases in abundance of species on which birds rely for food or shelter. Herbicide use in silviculture, used to favor certain types of growth following clearcutting, can cause significant drops in bird populations. Even when herbicides which have low toxicity to birds are used, they decrease the abundance of many types of vegetation on which the birds rely. Herbicide use in agriculture in Britain has been linked to a decline in seed-eating bird species which rely on the weeds killed by the herbicides. Heavy use of herbicides in neotropical agricultural areas has been one of many factors implicated in limiting the usefulness of such agricultural land for wintering migratory birds.

Frog populations may be affected negatively by the use of herbicides as well. While some studies have shown that atrazine may be a teratogen, causing demasculinization in male frogs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its independent Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) examined all available studies on this topic and concluded that "atrazine does not adversely affect amphibian gonadal development based on a review of laboratory and field studies.”

Resistance Scientists generally agree selection pressure applied to weed populations for a long enough period of time eventually leads to resistance. Plants have developed resistance to atrazine and to ALS-inhibitors, and more recently, to glyphosate herbicides. Marestail is one weed that has developed glyphosate resistance.

Glyphophate-resistant weeds are present in the vast majority of soybean, cotton and corn farms in some U.S. states.

Weeds that can resist multiple other herbicides are spreading. Few new herbicides are near commercialization, and none with a molecular mode of action for which there is no resistance. Because most herbicides could not kill all weeds, farmers rotated crops and herbicides to stop resistant weeds. During its initial years, glyphosphate was not subject to resistance and allowed farmers to reduce the use of rotation.

A family of weeds that includes waterhemp (Amaranthus rudis) is the largest concern. A 2008-9 survey of 144 populations of waterhemp in 41 Missouri counties revealed glyphosate resistance in 69%. Weeds from some 500 sites throughout Iowa in 2011 and 2012 revealed glyphosate resistance in approximately 64% of waterhemp samples.

The use of other killers to target "residual" weeds has become common, and may be sufficient to have stopped the spread of resistance From 2005 through 2010 researchers discovered 13 different weed species that had developed resistance to glyphosate. But since then only two more have been discovered. Weeds resistant to multiple herbicides with completely different biological action modes are on the rise. In Missouri, 43% of samples were resistant to two different herbicides; 6% resisted three; and 0.5% resisted four. In Iowa 89% of waterhemp samples resist two or more herbicides, 25% resist three, and 10% resist five.

For southern cotton, herbicide costs has climbed from between $50 and $75 per hectare a few years ago to about $370 per hectare in 2013. Resistance is contributing to a massive shift away from growing cotton; over the past few years, the area planted with cotton has declined by 70% in Arkansas and by 60% in Tennessee. For soybeans in Illinois, costs have risen from about $25 to $160 per hectare.

Dow, Bayer CropScience, Syngenta and Monsanto are all developing seed varieties resistant to herbicides other than glyphosate, which will make it easier for farmers to use alternative weed killers. Even though weeds have already evolved some resistance to those herbicides, Powles says the new seed-and-herbicide combos should work well if used with proper rotation.

49 Classification Herbicides can be grouped by activity, use, chemical family, mode of action, or type of vegetation controlled.

By activity: • Contact herbicides destroy only the plant tissue in contact with the chemical. Generally, these are the fastest acting herbicides. They are less effective on perennial plants, which are able to regrow from rhizomes, roots or tubers.

• Systemic herbicides are translocated through the plant, either from foliar application down to the roots, or from soil application up to the leaves. They are capable of controlling perennial plants and may be sloweracting, but ultimately more effective than contact herbicides.

By use: • Soil-applied herbicides are applied to the soil and are taken up by the roots and/or hypocotyl of the target plant. The three main types are: 1 Preplant incorporated herbicides are soil applied prior to planting and mechanically incorporated into the soil. The objective for incorporation is to prevent dissipation through photodecomposition and/or volatility.

2 Pre-emergent herbicides are applied to the soil before the crop emerges and prevent germination or early growth of weed seeds.

3 Postemergent herbicides are applied after the crop has emerged.

Their classification by mechanism of action (MOA) indicates the first enzyme, protein, or biochemical step affected in the plant following application. The main mechanisms of action are: •

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ACCase inhibitors compounds kill grasses. Acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase) is part of the first step of lipid synthesis. Thus, ACCase inhibitors affect cell membrane production in the meristems of the grass plant.

The ACCases of grasses are sensitive to these herbicides, whereas the ACCases of dicot plants are not.

ALS inhibitors: the acetolactate synthase (ALS) enzyme (also known as acetohydroxyacid synthase, or AHAS) is the first step in the synthesis of the branched-chain amino acids (valine, leucine, and isoleucine). These herbicides slowly starve affected plants of these amino acids, which eventually leads to inhibition of DNA synthesis. They affect grasses and dicots alike. The ALS inhibitor family includes sulfonylureas, imidazolinones, triazolopyrimidines, pyrimidinyl oxybenzoates, and sulfonylamino carbonyl triazolinones. The ALS biological pathway exists only in plants and not animals, thus making the ALS-inhibitors among the safest herbicides.

EPSPS inhibitors: The enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate synthase enzyme EPSPS is used in the synthesis of the amino acids tryptophan, phenylalanine and tyrosine. They affect grasses and dicots alike. Glyphosate (Roundup) is a systemic EPSPS inhibitor inactivated by soil contact.

Synthetic auxins inaugurated the era of organic herbicides. They were discovered in the 1940s after a long study of the plant growth regulator auxin. Synthetic auxins mimic this plant hormone. They have several points of action on the cell membrane, and are effective in the control of dicot plants. 2,4-D is a synthetic auxin herbicide.

Photosystem II inhibitors reduce electron flow from water to NADPH2+ at the photochemical step in photosynthesis. They bind to the Qb site on the D1 protein, and prevent quinone from binding to this site.

Therefore, this group of compounds causes electrons to accumulate on chlorophyll molecules. As a consequence, oxidation reactions in excess of those normally tolerated by the cell occur, and the plant dies.

The triazine herbicides (including atrazine) and urea derivatives (diuron) are photosystem II inhibitors.

Photosystem I inhibitors steal electrons from the normal pathway through FeS to Fdx to NADP leading to direct discharge of electrons on oxygen. As a result, reactive oxygen species are produced and oxidation reactions in excess of those normally tolerated by the cell occur, leading to plant death. Bipyridinium herbicides (such as diquat and paraquat) inhibit the Fe-S – Fdx step of that chain, while diphenyl ether herbicides (such as nitrofen, nitrofluorfen, and acifluorfen) inhibit the Fdx – NADP step.

HPPD inhibitors inhibit 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase, which are involved in tyrosine breakdown.

Tyrosine breakdown products are used by plants to make carotenoids, which protect chlorophyll in plants from being destroyed by sunlight. If this happens, the plants turn white due to complete loss of chlorophyll, and the plants die. Mesotrione and sulcotrione are herbicides in this class; a drug, nitisinone, was discovered in the course of developing this class of herbicides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicide

Trees by Charlie Mclenahan

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Lake of Serenity by MichaelJP

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Sunset In The Mountains by ezradavies

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Queenstown Harbour at Sunset by Yukondick

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75 Rooms of love Here’s where I come to think.

Here’s where I come to lose myself in another world another time.

Here’s where I come to watch the water flow.

To lose myself to a troubled world.

To wander in my mind in my memories.

I wander deep my mind its full of rooms you see.

And in each room is memories rich with love.

I sit and listen to the water as it flows along.

As it tickles my old hard feet that dangle deep within.

Here I lie back on the bank and think about my life.

Think about the roads I’ve walked and some I ran too fast.

But as the seasons have come and gone.

The world has changed again to a darker grey.

I come here to wander back way back.

To a time when I was young and life was just a game.

Here I sit too old to run but in my dreams I do.

Running down the street from school to catch a glimpse of you.

You too lovely all did say, and I too shy to say hello.

But dreams do come true, you said hello to me.

I sit and think of how that was and chills still come to me.

Eyes so blue you turned to me and said come walk with me.

All the years have come and gone but love is all I feel.

And here is where I fall in love again with you.

Here along these cool banks of green as water cools my feet.

I lie deep in thought’s of you and drift far far away.

Back so long ago when life for me was my small town.

And that was all the world I knew.

The world was just this small place and you were all I loved.

And now the times have changed I know, they move too fast for me.

And my small town is no more, oh my how it has grown.

But in the hustle of it all as people came and left.

One small place is still the same these cool banks of green.

I lie here in our favorite place and time has stopped for me.

I lie here in my private thoughts they always drift to you.

And here is where I first kissed you, your lips so warm so sweet.

And here is where you said I do underneath this tree.

And here is where we brought the kids to swim away the days.

I lie here in my thoughts of you my dreams there full of love.

And come one day I am sure our lips will kiss again.

Till then my mind will wander in rooms filled with love…

For you

David Roman

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Primitive Minds Moonlight fills the sky tonight, Deep blue the sky that cups the moon, reflected off the lake.

The lake so calm at this time most things fast asleep.

But you and I sit in chairs that grand dad made with love.

We sit and watch as little things fly and stop to take a bite.

Then off they go with a piece of me to feed a family.

I sit and wonder what life’s like for things that have wings.

Is it just a hunt for food or do they wage war too.

I wonder do they drop bombs in their little world.

Or is that just the things men do underneath the moon.

I sit and wonder as they fly their wings move constantly.

Do they plot to kill each other as men do.

What is it that they care about as they strive to live.

Who has the biggest nest or the biggest hive?

What is it that they care about underneath the moon.

I wonder if they give a damn their minds too primitive.

Or have they learned to live as one their world is hard enough.

While men with minds not primitive refuse to live as one.

I sit and think silly things underneath the moon.

While somethings bit me once again its time to go inside.

David Roman

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Photography by David Roman is available at RedBubble

Photography by David Roman is available at RedBubble

Venice Carnival Book size: 7.4 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches 152 pages

David Roman presents Flowers Book 2 Book size: 7.4 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches 160 pages

I'm a photographer, poet, artist, gallery owner creative person.

I try to enjoy my life and stay as creative as possible, wherever that leads me then so be it.

I don't focus on my limits, I allow myself the freedom to realize there is more to me than I have been taught.

I allow myself the freedom to explore these new roads without the fear of failure, we all fail, but whats important is that we try again and again.

There is honor in failure, for here is where you see the merit of the man, not in his success but in how he handles failure. My work is my passion, my soul, be it writing a poem, or photographing a flower, or lost in the waterways of Venice Italy.

I find my mind expanding as I face each new challenge.

Here you will find some of my books, some of my photography, and some of my poetry.

In essence you will find my heart and soul in all of these books.

If you wish to listen to my poetry read by me, you can copy paste the link and listen to me on SoundCloud under the name Poetryman. https://soundcloud.com/the-poetryman

Daydreamer 1 Book size: 7.4 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches 80 pages

Daydreamer 2 Book size: 7.4 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches 80 pages

Daydreamer 3 Book size: 7.4 x 7.1 x 0.7 inches 92 pages

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Flowers of Germany Book size: 7.4 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches 80 pages

A Piece of Me Book size: 10.2 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches 80 pages

Flowers Book size: 12 x 12 x 2.2 inches 250 pages

This is a large coffee table book, of 250 pages of wonderful flowers, as seen through the lens of photographer David Roman.

Each flower takes on a personality of its own. If you love flowers, and pay attention to details, then this book will fill you with many days of enjoyable pleasure.

Poems for her Book size: 10.2 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches 120 pages

Venice in Black & White Book size: 13.2 x 11.1 x 1.2 inches 118 pages

Visions in my Mind Book size: 7.4 x 7.1 x 1.6 inches 178 pages

Poems for my Friends Book size: 10.2 x 8.5 x 1.6 inches 178 pages

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