i had soaked some coffee grounds in five gallons of water to impart some organic nitrogen to the water ( about 1.45% by volume if i did it correctly) and when i began to water the jerusalem artichokes with it ( yes i do encourage them) i saw my friend the toad bolt out and take refuge under the eastern gamagrass...so i took her portrait...i'm not sure whether it was my presence or the coffee that moved her, but when i watered the gamagrass with straight water she stayed put in the damp shade that created...plenty of mosquitos around to feast on...she has my permission to make a pig out of herself if she likes...the university isn't worried about being organic seemingly...i recall a saturday morning early last summer ( there is a post somewhere about it ) when the campus smelled like a bag of 40-10-10 fertilizer and they were at it again today...last year i folded my arms and stood them off the garden with a sullen look and my appearance...(which has been mockingly called "biker chic" or "neo-rasputin") this year i arrived too late (8:04 am) they had already made the pass by hawthorne hall and were working the outlying areas so we may be a shade less organic this morning....unfortunate, but such things will happen in a bureaucracy...i'm still willing to wager that it is the most organic one hundred and sixty square feet on campus ( with the possible exception of the area north of the parking lot and south of the river...that's probably subject to less human intervention than our little experiment)...i am content with that.
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