By Shepherd Bliss
WaccoBB.net

Morning: Listening

Trees transform, shield, shade and provide oxygen, fruit, and beauty. They offer many other gifts. Without trees, humans would not survive....

They usually come into my house during the rainy season for two or three weeks and then leave of their own accord. I don't see the advantage of making them an enemy. They don't really hurt...

Dear Richard:
As long-standing denizens of the plant community you dismiss as "invasive" chaparral, we, the undersigned, must vehemently protest your mischaracterization of us. Both as individual...

There was an informative article about this project in yesterday's Marin IJ. The six acre, 200 tree plot is a quite recent 'forest' and is not a candidate for heritage preservation. The article...

Silkworm, et al.,
I don't have the time right now to discuss this topic thoroughly, but I am someone who supports removing exotic (non-native) trees from native plant and animal habitat. Humans...

California's landscape has been extensively altered by human habitation. NPS is to be commended for attempting to restore representative examples of our native flora and fauna. Our indigenous plants...

I have another mystery plant for you all. This one is found in Sugarloaf State Park. It's a bush. The berries have relatively large black seeds in them. 1-2 seeds per berry. Any idea? Thanks! Jeff

https://www.hancockwildlife.org/index.php?topic=White-Rock-Eagle1#WideAngle

Very interesting happenings at the White Rock Bald Eagle nest in B.C.
At this point, one of the 2 eaglets (they call...

:idea: Here's a business idea for somebody:

A rating service for how eco-friendly each winery is...
Give credit/blame where due...

My friend Barbara Chasteen wrote this letter to Carillo.

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Dear Mr Carrillo,

As a 40 year resident, landowner and voter in Sonoma County I am
deeply disturbed at the recent destruction...

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On film -- Pelham 123


One of the snakes of God,
one of the silver subway snakes
sliding against a smog dark
sky, evening, tenement blocks,

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Il pleut des voix de femmes


To sit in your late model car
outside the cardiac wing while it rains
with your windshield wipers
going full blast, this too
is a form of crying, a...

Lost lives


Two blocks of wood clapped together
make but the one sound, one
sound cuts sleep so that sleep and waking
fall apart, waking vaguely recalling
being asleep but not easily ...

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Cogito, Zero Sum


God, who does not hear prayers on Sunday,
that being His day off,
used to feel unconflicted
while all military requests favored

Overview


Nail a man to a rock face a thousand feet up,
have a broad river run below,
place a small town beside the river,
an abbey further along,
with plainchant for a soundtrack ...

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Dylan: Shake shake mama


Think of a column of sheer sky,
you'll have an idea
of where a voice starts,
the throat opens
and a column of sheer sky

Hi:

I'm Charles Cameron, recently moved to this area.

I've been writing poetry for decades now, making some minimal efforts at getting published, and just a month or two ago ran into an old...

From Andrea Mackenzie
General Manager
Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District

I am pleased to share this news with each of you -- after more than four years of...