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skyringOr is it "a quarter of five"? Anyway, it's a quarter to five, and that's oh-dark-early, as they say in the military, in their precise fashion.
I've got a big day of writing ahead and I'm just tidying up/procrastinating before I get started.
I mean a BIG day of writing. Bigbigbig. Like twelve thousand or don't bother.
It's going to get a bit random, I think, but I'll keep writing until I stop.
Yesterday was a day out at the cork forest. Biggest cork forest in the Southern Hemisphere, did you know that? I took BailiCumber along.
Gotta say that my camera case is really fiddly. Pulling the camera in and out to take a photograph is a real pain.
But it was interesting to see the cork oaks up close, watch the demonstrations of harvesting, see the dancing, listen to the music, release a book.
Later on we went up to Dairy Farmers Hill, which has pretty much been closed since the bushfires. John Mackay (ACTEW head) was up at the top, explaining how the aboretum is going to look. Last time we were there - years ago - the place was wall to wall pine trees. Most of them gone now, you can see clear to Stromlo where once it was all pines. Poor old John was having to deal with what looked like a co-ordinated effort by ecoNazis to give him a hard time. The sort of people who think we should have nothing but Australian species in Australian cities. Yeah, like cities are a natural feature and homo sapiens a native species.
Geez, you gotta wonder about some people. We can't stuff all the damage and extinction back in the bottle and bring back the Tasmanian Tiger, the diprotodon, the fucken dinosaurs. But we can understand and manage, and with exotics like oaks and elms, it's not exactly difficult to control them in a planned environment. Willows drifting down rivers and taking over the banks, sure that's a pest. Cane toads and European carp, even blackberries. But plane trees on a city street? I hope these buggers choke on their birkenstocks.
Ah, some people shit me.
Anyway, gotta get on with it.
I've got a big day of writing ahead and I'm just tidying up/procrastinating before I get started.
I mean a BIG day of writing. Bigbigbig. Like twelve thousand or don't bother.
It's going to get a bit random, I think, but I'll keep writing until I stop.
Yesterday was a day out at the cork forest. Biggest cork forest in the Southern Hemisphere, did you know that? I took BailiCumber along.
Gotta say that my camera case is really fiddly. Pulling the camera in and out to take a photograph is a real pain.
But it was interesting to see the cork oaks up close, watch the demonstrations of harvesting, see the dancing, listen to the music, release a book.
Later on we went up to Dairy Farmers Hill, which has pretty much been closed since the bushfires. John Mackay (ACTEW head) was up at the top, explaining how the aboretum is going to look. Last time we were there - years ago - the place was wall to wall pine trees. Most of them gone now, you can see clear to Stromlo where once it was all pines. Poor old John was having to deal with what looked like a co-ordinated effort by ecoNazis to give him a hard time. The sort of people who think we should have nothing but Australian species in Australian cities. Yeah, like cities are a natural feature and homo sapiens a native species.
Geez, you gotta wonder about some people. We can't stuff all the damage and extinction back in the bottle and bring back the Tasmanian Tiger, the diprotodon, the fucken dinosaurs. But we can understand and manage, and with exotics like oaks and elms, it's not exactly difficult to control them in a planned environment. Willows drifting down rivers and taking over the banks, sure that's a pest. Cane toads and European carp, even blackberries. But plane trees on a city street? I hope these buggers choke on their birkenstocks.
Ah, some people shit me.
Anyway, gotta get on with it.
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Ummaahh!
Date: 2005-11-27 07:59 pm (UTC)Re: Ummaahh!
Date: 2005-11-28 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-27 08:33 pm (UTC)We have tons of pines too of course. We have a gigantic one just off the north corner of our house. I sometimes fret that a big windstorm will take it down or even just one of its branches but my husband tells me not to worry.
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Date: 2005-11-28 02:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-28 06:51 am (UTC)(((((((((((((( Skyring )))))))))))))))
Soon be December. And trees are trees, no matter what flavour.
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Date: 2005-12-01 12:25 am (UTC)