#mowing

[impala-dreamer]

Please be impressed with my mowing skills. No one in my house will even notice 😆

[vortexanomaly]

mowing the roof...

[japan-minka]

Remote control slope mower

One of the more tedious minka tasks; slope mowing. We stopped today and chatted with the operator of a mower, likely more costly than our car.

Nice to dream (it was a hybrid too)...

[olowan-waphiya]

1 hr (gas) lawn mower use = driving 300 miles from LA to Vegas

1 hr (gas) leaf blower use = driving 1100 miles from LA to Denver

This is because while gas efficiency has improved leaps and bounds for cars, the motors used in lawn mowers and leaf blowers have not changed much in the last 50 years. leaf blowers also blast other forms of particulate matter around, adding immensely to air pollution.

as long as they arent in the walkway, feel free to leave the leaves as they are free compost and protection for insects.

procrastinate mowing as long as you can—use an electric one if you must (many cities are starting to do rebates or replacements). and you can similarly leave the grass clippings as compost.

[stone-cold-groove]

Zen and the art of mowing a lawn.

[words-and-coffee]

There are no birds or anything, or none that I can see. I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It's not sadness, though it may sound like it. I'm thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it's hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.

Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things: Mowing

[vintage-ukraine]

Mowing by Karpo Trokhymenko, 1935