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yellowfield biological surveys: Foreshortening
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Friday, September 16, 2011. You wait long enough and the memory disappears too. As I walked away, I turned to look and it got smaller and smaller until it disappeared from view. Now I can't even remember where the place was. As I disappear, I look back and I see nothing. It occurs to me that we both disappear at the same time and someday, there will be nobody left to remember a thing. Posted by David Schmoller. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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yellowfield biological surveys: The Wisdom of Children
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Monday, March 19, 2012. The Wisdom of Children. Down the sidewalk, a little boy held his mother's hand and pointed up at the store window and asked,"Mommy, where do all the mannequins go? She paused and her eyebrows crossed. "Them? She pointed at the window. You see, there is this landform in North America called The Landfill. I am having a hard time typing right now because my left eyelid is ticking like crazy. Yard where you dump your trash. Prope...
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yellowfield biological surveys: The Circle of Death
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Sunday, September 04, 2011. The Circle of Death. There is a loud train outside of my window. I suppose it is filled with hot, steaming coal from some strip mine in Wyoming, but it is too dark to tell right now. It blends into the night. The thing thunders by, the cabin shakes, and it blows its horn. Why blow the horn here? A fly fisherman three miles upstream bumped into a grizzly. Posted by David Schmoller. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The P...
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yellowfield biological surveys: December 2010
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Sunday, December 19, 2010. An old rancher looks at me and asks, "You ever seen a dust storm? I open my mouth to say yes, but before I can answer, he says, "You've never seen a dust storm.". No, singing. His thesis. Is published and the audience of millions embraces what they already knew. Millions knew to be true. Letters pour through the mail slot in his door like coins from a slot machine. Posted by David Schmoller. Thursday, December 02, 2010.
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yellowfield biological surveys: Can't Get the Sound of Fish out of My Head
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Saturday, December 13, 2014. Can't Get the Sound of Fish out of My Head. Legend has it that fish will fall occasionally from the sky. Singapore 1861. Saskatchewan 1903. Louisiana 1947. They carried him off on a stretcher. The next night he did it again, with a cast on his leg. That was the hardest working fish I had ever seen. The problem presented itself: How do fish get up into the sky? By the way, Groveland Institute is located in a sleepy, backw...
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yellowfield biological surveys: July 2011
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Saturday, July 09, 2011. Reach for the Stars. They say if you were to save a penny the first day and double it every day after that, you would be a millionaire in no time. Flat out millionaire. Like pennies from heaven. The insurance man shakes his head, calls it an Act of God and walks away, dusting off his hands. The children watch him walk until he disappears over a hill. The youngest begins to gnaw on the railing. Off in a laboratory the farmer'...
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yellowfield biological surveys: November 2011
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Wednesday, November 02, 2011. This is what is war. I had read that politicians and their wives sat upon the hilltops overlooking the Occoquan River to watch the first battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run or Manassas. They imagined that they were going to have a picnic. This was about 150 years ago. The battle turned and they abandoned the hilltops and fled for their lives. Where are the menfolk? Hot cinders tossed by a passing rail car?
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yellowfield biological surveys: Dante Was Here
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Sunday, October 02, 2011. The other day someone bumped into me on the subway and slipped a list of questions into my coat pocket. I found them later that morning when I reached into the pocket to pull out the obituary section. I was looking for a story about a man who disappeared and was never seen again. The thirteenth question read: "What are you doing here? I thought, that was hours and miles ago; I am not doing anything where I am not anymore.
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yellowfield biological surveys: September 2011
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Botanical, wildlife, wetland and natural areas surveys. Monday, September 19, 2011. Ghost in the Darkness. There is a wind out on the meadow. It whistles through the bones of a bird, hollow like drinking straws, a pneumatic system, bellows pumping air that keeps the frame bloated and aloft. It sings. Then a gust carries the bird away. I look at my notepad. I had something to write down but I lost it. I suspect that the animal probably recognized us before it vanished. It's probably true: Something is...
