October 6, 2005

• OH, GRRRRrrrrr….

  Gaea’s enemies abound.  California Republican Congressman Richard
  Pombo, flushed with victory over weakening the Endangered Species Act,
  wants to sell off 23% of our National Parks land to oil and gas
  companies.  He wants to sell sixteen parks, an Alaskan preserve,
  and expand California offshore oil drilling.  His other plan, to
  sell naming rights to other parts of the park system, doesn’t sound so
  bad.  Verizon National Park doesn’t have such high associations as
  Zion, but turning Everglades into Kraft National Park or Capitol Reef
  to Capital One would be better than turning them into oil fields.

  Full story at The New Standard

  Kurt Vonnegut was right when he wrote Cold Turkey.

   
  
  That Time of Year Again

  It’s just chilly outside, not frigid yet, but I felt it when I zipped
  out there with the camera this morning to catch the sunrise.  I
  was in pajamas and slippers, of course, had no time to get dressed or
  I’d have lost the light.  As it was, by the time I was across the
  road and past a few trees, some of the color had faded and only the
  bottoms of a few clouds were glowing.

  

  I was hurrying toward the muskeg, watching the sky through my camera’s
  viewfinder, and looked down just in time to avoid stepping into the
  water.  I haven’t been out there for a while and hadn’t realized
  that the muskeg is flooded again.  In August, I walked across it
  on the trail that has been packed by 4-wheel ATVs.  Then, the
  ground was moist but seemed solid enough until I stood still and began
  to sink into the surface.  Now, there is standing water right up
  to the tree line on the most direct path from here.  Until it freezes, I won’t be
  able to get a clear unobstructed shot of a sunrise without getting my
  feet wet.
  

  • 2:45 pm
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