Nature Pauses Not for a Human/Viral Pandemic

As I write and publish this brief Post March 28, 2020, our air is thick with pollen — ’tis the season! Six-year-old grandson Sam spent an hour outdoors with us today — social-distancing and all that.

I couldn’t help but share a few photos and write a bit of verse about the paradox of a global viral pandemic changing every facet of our life and living… and Nature proceeding as though nothing is amiss.

March 28, 2020 — Covid-19

Impacts human life and living,

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)

Simply couldn’t care less

North Alabama catkins

(the pine’s male flowers)

Are ripe and shedding their load…

To grandson Sam’s delight

Warm sun, ready for gathering

Encourages new lateral growth,

Candles reach and lengthen

Ready for chloroplasts to power

Loblolly pine knows not of Covid-19.

Adding a little new wood each year,

The pine knows its future

Is not linked to human fate

Practice Covid-19 avoidance,

Like social distancing and self-isolation;

And dare to venture outside, but

Beware the air thick with spring pollen!

Fitting Photographs