Resue Me(s)

Well if you insist...

            wee little tadpoles...

and wee little, well you should have seen the other two specimens of Elderberry.

Going into shock from the jarring move from prime real estate to this temporary plastic pot.

Hopefully a good misting will help it a long or maybe not. Time will tell.

I remember seeing this weed, or so I thought at the time I told my neighbor that I would keep

his front patch of volunteers in check. Until I was in Tampa early March to pick up my violin

from a long needed repair. I stopped into a couple of places and always on the hunt for new

treats for the palette and what do I find? Some Elderberry flower infused sparkling water.

So after some internet research and now knowing that we have this growing in abundance

around a local lake. Not that I would want to eat anything that grew around this Federally

designated sick 'for lack of better technical term' lake. As in be fined or clean it up. Our fine

city took the cheaper route and paid the fine.

Just as these lake bound Elderberry plants went into bloom was when the city, although  late

into the game of can't come to a decision to quarantine the city, including the path around

this lake. The timing cut me off in trying to harvest some of these blooms to distill into some

sense and or version of some Elderberry nectar.

Yesterday, while reading a book and glancing up out the window and looks onto my neighbor's

collection of plant volunteers and what do I spy. The distinct gray tinged sharp narrow leaves

of what I suspect and confirmed with a quick internet search and what you see above.

Tadpoles, they are a piece of cake. Two feedings of guppy fish food a day and changes of

rain water based on how cloudy the water gets.

As for the Elderberry plant, all I can do is wait and mist it occasionally and protect it from

the summer's harsh afternoon sun. Should this plant bounce back I can feed it some tadpole

wasted water for a tiny nutritional boost.

Win win.

Looks like the water changing will be on a shorter schedule as they take on some

organic sprouted seeded bread, giving them even more fiber than they bargained

for.