‘Tis the Season.
With the warm Winter, we seem to have a lot of ticks this year.
While I celebrated the first mowing of the orchard – removing the crop of dandelions and cuckoo flower. The ticks celebrated the arrival of a warm-blooded visitor.
Despite the pandemic, taxes still have to be paid to the government. They know where we live, after we completed Census 2021.
For Mother’s Day, Heather wanted to read Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard. On Friday, I had a call from the Inside Story about the procedure for pick up in these COVID times.
In response to my ruminations on ‘thinking rural’, Jane Nicholson suggested the need for leadership and a plan. I reminded myself that AIRO includes the term ‘rural opportunities’.
Revisiting their web site and watching the video, I was impressed by the leadership shown by both Jane and Adele. Not wishing to start a business, I need to think hard on the best way to make a contribution to the region. Perhaps it’s simple, just keep writing a blog in these turbulent times.
Heather has just finished, The Book that Changed America, Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species.
We discussed the life of Emerson, Whitman and Thoreau. Going to the bookcase, I pulled out a weathered copy of Thoreau: Walden and other writings, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. Inside the front cover, R.V.Maher Anchorage, Alaska. August 1971.
I remember after a long field season in the Canadian Rockies, studying alpine vegetation. Rather than heading home to the University of Western Ontario (London), we took a side trip up the Alaska Highway. Fifty Years ago !
Acknowledgements
Heather shares the battle with both the ticks and the taxes. Jane for her insightful response to my blog. Edward for the links and graphics.
References
Annapolis Investments in Rural Opportunities (AIRO). Check out the video.
Randall Fuller, 2017, The Book that Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, Viking Publishing.
Thoreau: Walden and Other Writings, 1963, Bantam Classic.
Suzanne Simard, 2021, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Penguin Random House.
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Bob
It has been said that individual citizens rarely meet more than a few of their fellow citizens yet have no trouble imagining themselves as a country. Obviously, geography is a defining factor but the “idea” of a country is the thing to which all are connected and that everybody buys into. What is the equivalent for Annapolis?
Brian
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