One Man Two Hands

Category: Reflections

  • Misty Winter Morning

    After another heavy storm that’s always welcomed here in the Central Valley of California. The Sun was a welcome sight as nature has it all balanced. There is always a vibrant reaction from the plant life and even summer plants still trying to produce in December.

  • Winter Is Here

  • November 21st 2025

    “Let Nature Do Her Thing”

  • The joy of Fall

    Well just sharing some images and thoughts as we go into the beautiful fall season here in California’s Central Valley

  • Progress Not Perfection

    Just Keep Working

  • The moments when you can see

    Most of the time you’re jus working and grinding with you goals in mind. But the truth is you’re a part of the beauty and have to realize how magnificent every aspect of nature truly is.

  • The morning Sprinklers

    I still use the simple old school sprinklers and move them myself. I enjoy the quiet sounds of the morning especially right at dawn.

    Grateful Moments

  • Words of Inspiration from Beyond

    Today i experienced a level of inspiration and at the same time a sobering and deeply thoughtful message. I watched the Netflix interview of Jane Goodall and the open and sincere honesty of her expressing her life experiences unfiltered was amazing.

    Finding our inspiration

    Listening to her sharing how her mother allowed and encouraged her as a child without the traditional guidance to follow certain rules as most children are unfortunately taught many times at the risk of stifling imagination and wonder.

    It reminded me of hearing so many times as a child how much “potential” I had from teachers only not growing up in an environment to receive it.

    ” We are all connected”

    Those beautiful words are admittingly challenging in practice in life but coming from someone who devoted her life to what we call “animals” on a deeply spiritual level and relating to them as they and are can only deeply make you wonder what has happened to human being as we are supposed to be a higher level primate.

    Thank you

    Thank you Jane Goodall and the life you lived and the inspiration your spirit as was and as it is now for giving this 69 year old man hope and inspiration to get out there in the garden 2-4 hours every day. It’s my honor and privilege to be a steward and provide a eco system if only in my backyard that will be benefit for every living thing around me.

    Just a sample of being motivated to allow nature to guide and reward my efforts.

  • Early Morning before the heat

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  • Water Spinach

    Beautiful water spinach in the morning. It goes by so many other names. Pak Boon is what they call it in Thailand and it’s got more names. But anyway, can you grow water spinach in the desert and here in Bakersfield? I guess you can. That water spinach (a.k.a. Pak Boon, Kang Kong, Rau Muống) looks lush, vigorous, and completely at home in Bakersfield’s heat.