There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet. A mere teaspoonful contains many miles of fungal filaments. All these work the soil, transform it, and make it so valuable for the trees.
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As alleged in related post, Doubtful Sound was even more glorious, the next morn. Photos copyright Doug Spencer, all taken April 15, 2015.
2 CommentsJust after publishing the immediately-preceding post, I read Pankaj Mishra’s essay, Welcome to the age of anger. It is a brilliant combination of erudition and a quality not oft-alloyed with erudition – so-called “common” sense.
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This post highlights three interesting essays on the above.
Only one author is primarily a journalist; the other two are, respectively, an English physicist/cosmologist and an Australian (of Greek ancestry) who is best known for his provocative literary fictions.
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All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken in or near Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska, May/June 2015 – the first one from “our” sea kayak.
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Happy New Year from Pelican Yoga. Read on and you’ll reap a Fiddlehead Fern musical reward…
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It is now drinking beautifully. Good news: ’09 vintage is the current release, available from the winery at a very fair price for a carefully cellared, truly premium Margaret River red.
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A Qualup Bell – simply being itself – is lovelier than any jingle bells, jiving. Religious leaders’ “seasonally appropriate” platitudes ring as hollow as electioneering politicians’ “motherhood statements”. But you are one click away from a beautifully poignant, perceptive perspective on motherhood…
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An obsession with celebrity does not lie quietly beside the other things we value; it takes their place.
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This post’s photos were all taken in November 2016, after “Australia Felix” had enjoyed its best winter rains in many years.
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