Comments on: Old trees, new ornaments http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/old-trees-new-ornaments/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lady P http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/old-trees-new-ornaments/#comment-9741 Lady P Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:03:35 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3605#comment-9741 Wow! thanks for that. Fascinating. I had no idea weasel-type-creatures could grow so big. When I was a child a weasel used to traverse our boundary fence every now and then. We called it the dancing cigar. Wow! thanks for that. Fascinating. I had no idea weasel-type-creatures could grow so big. When I was a child a weasel used to traverse our boundary fence every now and then. We called it the dancing cigar.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/old-trees-new-ornaments/#comment-9740 Dave Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:28:25 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3605#comment-9740 Thanks for the comments, y'all. Very useful to hear from an accomplished yoga practioner, and as for the Odin/shaman connection, that did occur to me, but I didn't really know enough about it to work it in. Lady P - A fisher is a kind of large weasel, recently re-introduced after more than a century of absencew from Pennsylvania. See <a href="http://marciabonta.wordpress.com/2006/09/01/the-black-cat-returns/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Thanks for the comments, y’all. Very useful to hear from an accomplished yoga practioner, and as for the Odin/shaman connection, that did occur to me, but I didn’t really know enough about it to work it in.

Lady P – A fisher is a kind of large weasel, recently re-introduced after more than a century of absencew from Pennsylvania. See here.

]]> By: Lady P http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/old-trees-new-ornaments/#comment-9739 Lady P Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:16:10 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3605#comment-9739 What is a fisher? apart from a person with a rod intent on piscatorial activity? The children have undressed our tree... they wanted a day with it in all its green needled glory. It will be placed in the organic recycling bin tomorrow. What is a fisher? apart from a person with a rod intent on piscatorial activity?

The children have undressed our tree… they wanted a day with it in all its green needled glory. It will be placed in the organic recycling bin tomorrow.

]]> By: leslee http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/old-trees-new-ornaments/#comment-9738 leslee Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:15:55 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3605#comment-9738 I always dragged my tree out into the woods after Christmas when I lived in a more rural town. Here, there's nowhere to put it but out on the snowbank to be carted away by the municipal trash collectors. I have no idea where they take it. I can only take the memories of Christmas and compost those as best I can. Home for the nesting bats in my own belfry, I guess. I always dragged my tree out into the woods after Christmas when I lived in a more rural town. Here, there’s nowhere to put it but out on the snowbank to be carted away by the municipal trash collectors. I have no idea where they take it. I can only take the memories of Christmas and compost those as best I can. Home for the nesting bats in my own belfry, I guess.

]]> By: Michelle http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/old-trees-new-ornaments/#comment-9737 Michelle Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:33:41 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3605#comment-9737 "... a half-dozen white-throated sparrows flew out" How beautiful. “… a half-dozen white-throated sparrows flew out”

How beautiful.

]]> By: David Harmon http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/old-trees-new-ornaments/#comment-9736 David Harmon Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:34:45 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3605#comment-9736 Hanging from trees, often upside down, is an ancient shamanic practice, still remembered in the Tarot's <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/xr/ar12.htm" rel="nofollow">Hanged Man</a>, and in the myth of <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/havamal.html#runes" rel="nofollow">Odin's quest for the Runes</a>. Hanging from trees, often upside down, is an ancient shamanic practice, still remembered in the Tarot’s Hanged Man, and in the myth of Odin’s quest for the Runes.

]]> By: maria http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/old-trees-new-ornaments/#comment-9735 maria Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:58:33 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3605#comment-9735 Well, I have a similar swing I use in my house for inversions, and it would work off tree limbs, of course, too ... but when I practice yoga, I tend to try to go for the tree-likeness in the pose and not use the tree as a literal limb for getting there! The only things I have been hanging off the trees in the yard lately is suet for the birds and watched with amazement as small birds (definitely not humming birds) tried their best impersonations (yoga poses?) to hover like humming birds to get to the dwindling suet inside the metal cage. Well, I have a similar swing I use in my house for inversions, and it would work off tree limbs, of course, too … but when I practice yoga, I tend to try to go for the tree-likeness in the pose and not use the tree as a literal limb for getting there!

The only things I have been hanging off the trees in the yard lately is suet for the birds and watched with amazement as small birds (definitely not humming birds) tried their best impersonations (yoga poses?) to hover like humming birds to get to the dwindling suet inside the metal cage.

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