The 76th Rain Forest site - "Everything is Connected"

'Morning, all.

9 degrees F this a.m. It might hit all of 20 later.

Brrrrr...

Thanks for sharing the pictures- I love your trails.

It is colder today,only 6C- but the daffodils are out- far too early for our region.

Last weekend on the summit of Hohe Wand- a mountain close to Vienna- a nice skiing resort in notmal years.



We found spring flowers

Beautiful photos Dan and ul!

What great trails!

Soon as the copy/scanner decides working again... Photos of deer, and just yesterday, pics of wildflower stalks sprouting! and hope the photos of the finches took ok before the critters jetted. Plus, more photos of deer gardening. Weaning the lil guys from winter pellets and the looks i receive from the youngins - healthy though and able to forage with the adults now - i'm just glad they survived the cold winter.

Sierra Spring Bloom

Indian Hemp...

Merry, wow - 20 degrees! A heat wave!

Gosh the east coast has sure been hit with winter weather!

Stay warm!

Good analogy, Dan! All the wildclickers deserve applause!

Sierra Pine Forest Larkspur...

Reflection of the Day from today's Boston Globe:

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
John Muir

a truer word ... and all that

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aktbird57 - You and your 300 friends have supported 2,700,457.0 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 151,358.5 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 300 friends have supported: (151,358.5)

American Prairie habitat supported: 59,202.1 square feet.
You have supported: (14,186.8)
Your 300 friends have supported: (45,015.2)

Rainforest habitat supported: 2,489,896.5 square feet.
You have supported: (177,908.7)
Your 300 friends have supported: (2,311,987.7)

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1 Aktbird57 .. 61.992 acres

2 37.946 acres

Here is a thing from Robert Burns - (I made it up)

I cannie bure tha cauld.
Me duddies war na eneugh,
'n I war feckless an a fley a tha hornie.
Tha diel haet fra saugh woodie ta scaur
tha feckless fiere.
I gowk, grat 'n greet -
'n gang.

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translate
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I can't stand this cold.
My clothing isn't good enough,
and I'm powerless and afraid of the devil.
The devil's last thing - a rope made of willow withes is scary
to my powerless friends.
I foolishly weep and weep -
and then go.

My contribution, although not quite as prophetic....

"The Best Way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes"

--Stradee

{sending hot chocolate and thermal booties}

We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

--John Muir

Craven wrote this morning


Yayyyyyyy!

Onward we go............

Hey all, great photos - that sure makes this site more personable.

Stradee, I was only trying to say in Burn'eze that it must be devilishly cold in Boston. I have in one of my Burn's books a dictionary of old Scottish words and terms and just thumbed through for the above.

clicked...........

back w/ edit........
Stradee, thanks for the quote. I always admired and liked reading Muir. The closest to him I ever got was my climb up Mt Rainier in WA state. Half way up is Camp Muir. That was twenty-five years ago when I was forty and in good shape.

Merry Andrew, Your quote from Muir is exactly on target for this thread - thanks a million.

ul, The daffodils here started blooming during the last days of January..... I am wondering what Summer will bring.

Yep...perfect weather for hot chocolate and feetsie warmers....and i was reading an e mail maggie sent called 'Great to be a woman" - where the "tight shoes" line originated from.

Heres' another one that just cracked me up. Note: never sip coffee whilst sitting at the computer reading one of maggies e mails, or Dan speaking Burns/eze {and did people really talk like that}

"Sometimes I think i understand everything...and then i regain conciousness"...

leading right to....

"My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely"...

Explains why Stradee can walk into a room and ask "what the hell did i come in here for"...?

not certain if its 'senior moments' or because i'm still employed...give me a minute and i'll try to remember... (giggling}

Such good news the hamsters are on track again! No prob. Hurray!

Dan, John Muir is one of my very favorite persons - visited his and his family ranch in Martenez on numerous occasions, and the place depicts even today, Muirs devotion to writing and working for the enviornment.

The quote is just a longer version of the one Merry posted {wonderul quote, Merry} - Muir wrote the paragraph in a letter sent to a lifelong professor friend, Catharine Merrill, who was one of the first woman professors in America.

http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/

Recall mentioning when we were posting at Abuzz at one of the Rainforest threads, that John Muir and his wife, with other family members, were interred on the Muir Ranch, but when the land was sold and distributed for housing projects, the burial site was then located on private property and not accessable to the general public.

Update: The American Land Conservancy (ALC) purchased the property for the National Park Service - the cemetary will once again belong to the Muir Park estate.

http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/frameindex.html?http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/john_muir_national_historic_site/

ALC info
http://www.alcnet.org/alc-home.php

Clicking and listening to the radio- Mardi Gras Jazz from New Orleans. Just right after a very long day.

Thanks for the interesting links, Stradee......

Yes, in Burns time the talk was so..... Here is a poem I especially like for the very last paragraph..... So true......


At the bottom of each page are numbered definitions -

Great contribution to the general literacy of the thread, Danon. One of my favorite Burns poems, too. That last stanza can stand alone and frequently does in some anthologies.

A very wise man once tried to explain to me the difference between 'humility' and 'humiliation'. two words which look sort'a similar. Quoting Burns, he said that humility is the sincere attempt to see ourselves as others see us. If we're successful in this, he said, that can often lead to feelings of humiliation.

Inspirational A marvelous poem

Just wait for tomorrows poem - - -

It is the original derivation - IMHO - of the term = "Best laid plans of mice and men."

You and your 300 friends have supported 2,700,972.1 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 151,452.1 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 300 friends have supported: (151,452.1)

American Prairie habitat supported: 59,202.1 square feet.
You have supported: (14,186.8)
Your 300 friends have supported: (45,015.2)

Rainforest habitat supported: 2,490,317.9 square feet.
You have supported: (177,932.1)
Your 300 friends have supported: (2,312,385.8)

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1601 62.004 acres

2 1294 37.946 acres