I am ALMOST positive that spring (the season without snow but with green grass and flowers will arrive) just like it always has. Spring will be followed by summer and that great American Tradition: a vacation which entails sponging on your relatives for a cheap getaway. Just buy a summer lake cabin or a time share or move to an exotic location and relatives that you have … [Read more...]
A View From The Woods
Winter grumpiness prevails; spring bliss to appear soon By the time my dear readers see this article in mid-April, I hope and pray that warmth and thawing have returned. However, at the time of this writing in early April, there is massive grumpiness throughout the land. Snow and cold weather haunted us with a vengeance in March and April. We barely dodged two winter storm … [Read more...]
Letter about What do we care about?…
To the Editor, We care about ducks. They often fly in flocks, and from a duck’s perspective, this might be a curse, or a blessing. A curse because a fast-shooting hunter might be quick enough to take more than one duck from a passing flight. A blessing, because the sheer density of prospective targets may render the shooter incapable of concentrating sufficiently on an … [Read more...]
A View From The Woods
Wounded woods “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes … [Read more...]
A little of this, A little of that
I may have been watching too many episodes of “Ancient Aliens.” I am wondering what humans will be like in the far, far distant future. I predict that humans will no longer have voice boxes. Instead they will have a texting device installed in their hand at birth. Fingers will be elongated and pointed at the tips, better to text with other humans. Many are bemoaning the … [Read more...]