Lola at the Coffee House

Some wines to have with dinner?

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No, I haven't been there, though relatively near to it. An architect friend had been, though, and showed me lots of photos. I'm sure I'd enjoy it. I was busy being crazed on a cold and windy day about Villa Lante, also in Viterbo area, at Bagnaia. We were the only ones there, and the guide directed us into one of the villas so we could all get out of the wind for a while. Strong memories of that place, also of the stop at village restaurant afterwards, and then a stop in a bar to get a bus ticket and the guys in the bar reaching in their pockets to come up with two tickets as the ticket counter was closed.
Edit to add, my husband offered to buy the group a round and they said, no, no.. When we were in the bus leaving Bagnaia, I saw one of the guys hod carrying across the square.

On chinese gardens, I once heard a well regarded chinese garden expert's quite long lecture with photos (forget her name) but that is now vaporous in my brain. Remember liking the lecture. In the firm I worked in longest, the owner (still pals) was (well, still is) early generation japanese american, raised near a bracero gardening family, so he became a typically californian mixed cultural person (fluent in spanish while young) and had a masters in planning and so on. Anyway, a lot of our clients were chinese, some paid attention to fung shui and some didn't, and a lot were other than chinese.. We listened to what they wanted their gardens to be like. Another long time mentor still friend was born of 'good family' in japan, and asked me to be his land arch for a japanese garden in a larger botanical garden, but the donor for the work nixed me out of it for his own person. I would have worked fine with the main designer since we understood each other, but also learned more details by leaps and bounds.

So, as we all know, there are some gorgeous gardens out there. I like 'untouched' land too, lest I sound like I don't.

The money "we" spend on New Years, no matter where we live, give it back I say

Lovely money - but something a bit odd about the eyes!!!

Are those Przhevalski [sp.?] horses, I wonder. The link doesn't identify them as anything but "ponies". The long hair and small stature, however, is indicative of the last survivors of the earliest known breed of true horse.

Because it is not possible ff without risking being humiliated.

Make your mind up ff. Food or spectacular effects?

I prefer the other name for these critters (DZUNGARIAN HORSIES(easier for me to spell)
Did you know that in the last 10 years the zookeepers at the US National zoo were able to "reverse' a vasectomy on its only Przevahlsky
stallion and has begun a breeding program to bring this species back from (lmost) extinction in the wild

Also, since 2011, Prague Zoo has transported twelve Przewalski's to Mongolia in three rounds, in cooperation with partners (Czech Air Force, European Breeding Programme for Przewalski´s Horses, Association pour de cheval du Przewalski : Takh, Czech Development Agency, Czech Embassy in Mongolia and others) and it plans to continue to return horses to the wild in future. The Zoo has the longest uninterrupted history of breeding of Przewalski´s Horses in the world and keeps the studbook of this species.

The reintroduced horses successfully reproduced, and the status of the animal was changed from "extinct in the wild" to "endangered" in 2005. On the IUCN Red List, they were reclassified from "extinct in the wild" to "critically endangered" after a reassessment in 2008, and from "critically endangered" to "endangered" after a 2011 reassessment.

But surely, fm, "the wild" is the scientific test of whether an extinction takes place.

Presenting controlled conditions as science is merely an anthropomorphic affectation and decidedly anti-evolution.

At its core it is deeply religious. Mystical even. The religious aspect of science has been debated in the austere chambers of the Higher Learning for a long time.

At what level of food prices do you think those "lovely" gardens, so pleasing to a delicate aesthetic sensibility, also mystical, will be dug up and replaced by nice rows of potatoes and cabbages and such like?



Bob Dylan.

Once again, the sense of your message escaped me. Since when is science NOT an anthropomorphic affectation, and WHY OH WHY is controlled experimentation "anti-evolutionary"?
You realize that you just string words together in the hopes that some of them will auto-arrange themselves into a sentence?

The rest , is it supposed to be purposely deranged?

That's interesting. I've no idea myself.
Edit, just saw the later posts, wow.

I can see that.



So you concede then that it is religious. That the constants to which science can reduce the diversities of the world to provide a truthful picture of that diversity. Which is a belief. A useful one indeed. Up to now at least. What if the constants produce uniformity as they tend to do. Evolution has gone to great lengths to get the diversity not wishing to put all its eggs in one basket. Hence science is anti-evolutionary as is obvious anyway to anyone who gives some thought to the matter.

The intention is to replace dark robes and vestments with white coats and the language of religion and art with the equally incomprehensible language of science. It's your ceremonies that are naff old boy.

You're a bunch of counter-jumpers, my dear, intending to produce clockwork human beings just as a clockwork horse might be produced.



Sheesh"" I already explained that. Because the experiment is designed to countermand evolution's decision on the fate of that gee-gee. A bunch of publicity-seeking control freaks have decided, and received funds from nincompoops, that evolution is wrong to be extirpating that hoss, as the Irish say. And they don't even know if it was doing.

You have been defining "anti-evolutionary" as anybody who disagrees with you on the subject for far too long. It's a mere conversational gambit which only works on unintelligent listeners. Or maybe too polite ones.

Blaring it from the rooftops that evolution is in error is obviously anti-evolutionary. Heresy in fact.

Fetch us a couple of pints of Old Rosie's Cloudy Washup.

If you worry about that sort of thing, you wouldn't do much of anything in life.

What precisely is "much of anything in life"?

If you have to ask that, you aren't living!