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On Nov 15, 2:59*pm, Giles wrote:
On Nov 15, 1:11*pm, DaveS wrote: Well it looks like your move progresses. The actual move is now complete. *All that remains is the trifling matter of entirely reorganizing a life along hitherto unimagined lines. *But, I bought a new chainsaw today.....the rest should be easy enough. Keep posting this stuff, it is good for the soul. The posting is good enough for one soul, one which has already received a considerable boost from the change that inspired it. *If it does another any good, so much the better. I was told years ago that taking care of trees and repairing the land is what men are supposed to do in later life. I know I've posted it here before, but it bears repeating. *There is an old Greek proverb that says a society grows great when its old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in. *The old Greeks never understood women.....undoubtedly never cared to.....but it may safely be said that the gender specificity of the old Greek proverb should probably not be taken too seriously. *In any case, true as it is in a literal sense, there is a deeper and more important underlying truth in this expression that should not need to be explained to anyone.....and that's about as good an encapsulation of what is wrong with the world today (as in every other age) as anyone should ever need. *On the other hand, grasses, shrubs, frogs and fishes are pretty nice too. And then there is that French tale of deep regeneration that has influenced so many to plant trees. I am not familiar with that tale. Or honoring the creation as some Christians put it Ah, well, when you bring the Christians (or any other religious cult) into it, that changes the complexion of things considerably. *All one need do in such a case is remember that all of them habitually invoke Pascal's wager, blissfully unaware the Pascal was no fool......but they are.* Anyway, good stuff. Thank you. This discussion of grasses and forbs grabs my attention: Per the East is long/West is shorter idea. I am not so sure that same applies West of the Rocky's. Ive got 4 foot high clumps of Blue Wheat Grass (a native) all over my place on the Palouse, and it and some others Ive yet to ID are all over the High Steppe. The same natural laws apply everywhere in the known universe. Maybe the water regime changes on the West side of the Bitterroot? Exactly. *The laws don't change. *The conditions they describe and apply to do. *Tall grasses in the east and short in the west is a description of prevailing conditions in the great grasslands of central North America, largely as a result of the rain shadow of the western mountain chains.....principally the Rockies, but also the lesser chains to the west....and the ever increasing effects of huge moist air masses coming up from the Gulf of Mexico as one moves further east. *The same laws, again, apply further west, between the mountain ranges, but their effects are not as great (for a number of reasons), and they are also doubtless complicated by other factors. Even within the great grasslands, and beyond their generally recognized margins, local conditions can overpower the effects of the Rocikes and the Gulf. *In post colonial times, emigrants found prairie outliers in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, as well as in Kentucky.....all of which are far east of the Mississippi, which is a good enough marker of the eastern boundary of the great central grasslands. *Conversely, some fairly large forested tracts have long existed east of the great river, where the simple version of the law says they shouldn't have. *Madson states it all much more clearly and precisely in "Where the Sky Begins", as have many other before and since, but then, they've also all used a lot more pages than me.....so far. We add a little sour cream, and vary the brats with some finer grained sausage whose name escapes me. A very malleable meal. *Sour cream sounds like a good addition, and there are many sausages that would work well, If the chestnut invite extends to my clumsy hands, a few this way would be welcome for another attempt. I kinda figured you'd like to have another whack at it. * * * * ![]() I'll put out some sort of formal notice in a month or two. *Remind me. Wolfgang *pascal was making a philosoophical point, not discoursing on probabilities. Interesting. In Western Wa. there are some surviving mini grasslands called "prairies." The typical explanation says that the Native Americans kept these places open via periodic burnings, and used same as horse grass way-stops along trade trails thru the forest. One such trail, a Northern branch of the transcontinental "Great Road," met the sal****er on the delta of the Nisqually River, where the Brits set up their post. I believe research on trade trails and horse movement along same could explain more of them. Dave |
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