Sunday afternoon devolved (evolved?) into reading
The rain has given much this afternoon: help to the garden and two insightful articles updating organic evolution, esp. the discontinuities: New Yorker 5/11 p. 50 (Copnik) and 5/25 p. 52 (Kolbert.)
To me, as a grad student in the mid 70s, the matters of diversification and extinction tackled in the two articles above were emerging, but not ( Read more... )
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My website is ilenebook.com
My husband is a nature photographer, I have a lhasa apso dog and two llamas that own me.
I can see the Olympics and I am nearer to Mt. Rainier than to St. Helens.
You sound rather intelligent. Hope I can keep up. *grin*
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I'd forgotten that I'd written the above. Nice work by the two authors. 'Glad that you picked up on it.
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Thanks for the interest! The Cajun for this goes something like, "I'm so happy you should see me."
I'm not all that bright. 'Just live at low altitude where there's lottsa oxygen. 'Doesn't always help.
Geeez, llamas! They come north all by themselves? It's all kinda connected, Cordillera.
I've seen the Cascades within recent years, but had business in Portland and was too d--- busy to get around. I worked out on the Coeur d' Alene in '67 and made it further west once or twice, then had a few camping trips up that way in the late 80s. Yours is a lovely part of the World!
I'll have a go at your web site and art. I'm just digging out from this and that - all of which is whining or squealing for attention.
More soon
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