Responding Literally **

Mindful of the end of the Mayan Calendar December 21,  I decided to take literally Mother Nature's challenge quoted in the last post-  "to learn to follow the designs of her nature."

So I planted brown rice seeds in a pattern according to Fibonacci, as follows:-

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Insert 3/4/2015   Nothing grew from the rice seeds!  Only couch grass and oats.  At least I found out some design in the numbers.
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We are awaiting rain,  and there is hardly any, for the last two months only 8mm has fallen!
I only have rainwater in a tank from my shed 4 m x 4 m roof.  The tank is full but might be needed.
Here is photo of area planted, with containers weighted with dirt to mark the spot.

To the left is a clump of rye 5 ft tall from last  year's seeds.
                              


This Pattern has shown me a larger bilateral symmetrical Pattern with Fibonacci numbers.
Every third number is even and the two numbers in between are both odd.
This means there is a central rib,  all the way up,  like so:-

fairy grass  22/10/2012  6 AM

a delight to see in my garden

Radiance indicates left edge of a fogbow
or white rainbow.  22/9/2012  6:27 AM

One can see such a sight once or twice a year;
sometimes the bow is more evident than this.






Pink Peach tree in blossom
to cheer us up.
16/9/2012  9 AM

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