In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as a snake his slough, and at what period in life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Emerson [Pic taken this month in Chivery, in the UK, by Algo, via Treeporn]
Category Archives: the land
“The world is filled with redundant roosters”: Susan Orlean
From Susan Orlean's utterly charming New Yorker blog Free Range: The rooster problem isn’t going to go away anytime soon. I’m no zoologist, but I’m guessing that the hen to rooster ratio is probably one to one, but the desirability ratio is about twenty million to one. The world is filled with redundant roosters.Continue reading ““The world is filled with redundant roosters”: Susan Orlean”
Photographic haiku
Not clear why Polaroid photographs work so well with haiku-like notes, but pictures like this one raise a question…why did I ever recycle my SX-70? scarlet fields., originally uploaded by anna☆morosini. when the sun setson dark silhouettescollapse into dream From a fascinating project/circumnavigation of the Sea of Norway called Fourlines. The blog about it isContinue reading “Photographic haiku”
Yosemite in fall, by a true lover of the park
A lovely set of photographs of the great park, from LA Timesman Mark Boster. In this one, on the cover of the Travel section yesterday, he features the park's best-known tree, a giant elm, in full fall color. Makes me think: What am I doing at home, when I could be seeing this?
If this is damnation, I don’t want to be saved
Damnation Creek Trail, Redwood NP, originally uploaded by lindsay_kaun. A ridiculously good tree picture, via the mind-blowing Treeporn site.
Three strikes for bears
Ted Rall likes to work from bizarre but real news stories. Sometimes this makes his work seems a little beyond belief, but when you see the context, it all begins to make sense…in a 21st sort of way.
Falconry from the bird’s-eye point of view
The English have always been legendary falconers; here, a scientist's camera and the BBC reveals what it looks from the bird's eye view… .
La Niña will bring heat, wind to SoCal: Forest Service
According to the seasonal outlook from the US Forest Service, the developing La Niña will bring warm temps and an increased possibility of Santa Ana winds to SoCal in the next two months: So far this summer, the lingering affects of the El Niño have kept much of the state under a cool, onshore flowContinue reading “La Niña will bring heat, wind to SoCal: Forest Service”
Why would you want to leave coastal California?
That's what Monarch butterflies in SoCal are thinking. Makes one wonder how hard-wired some of these so-called "instincts" really are. Here's a picture of garden designer David Snow petting a Monarch caterpillar. A fun story for me to cover…off again now to the Sierras, this time to the Thousand-Island Lake area. Back a week fromContinue reading “Why would you want to leave coastal California?”
La Nina expected back this year
As is often the case, after El Nino. But this McClatchey/Fresno Bee piece is an unusually good one, complete with a charticle designed for web postings. La Niña tends to influence wetter winters around the Canadian border, but drier conditions along the Mexican border. So Southern California — Los Angeles and San Diego — consistentlyContinue reading “La Nina expected back this year”
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