Archive for May, 2014
Pinus Palustris
Pinus Palustris, otherwise known as long leaf pine trees, were natives to the Big Thicket National Forest. They dominated their forests for centuries until East Texas developed into a timber producing mecca. They are beautiful trees, growing to a height of 125 feet, straight and tall with no branches except at the very top […]
Fukushima!
Sometimes, my paranoia runs almost out of control. Ever since Three Mile Island’s partial meltdown, Love Canal and the 1979 movie, The China Syndrome, (A great performance by Jack Lemmon with Jane Fonda playing the young reporter with a pet turtle…hum), I have been an opponent of nuclear power. I mean, I am opposed, but […]