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that is what I love about here, apart from the house and my little gardens we are surrounded by natural woods and bush. My Dogwood is just red sticks coming off a stalk still!!! sigh!
posted by
Kabu
on April 23, 2014 at 5:05 PM
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I am sorry about your lovely pond area. I know from your past writings how you loved that place. This move toward Europe is such bluff a fluff I hope.
posted by
Justi
on April 23, 2014 at 3:26 PM
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The last thing the US needs is to get involved in yet another war! For your family's sake, and everyone else's for that matter, let's hope it's just maneuvers, a show of strength. I still don't fully understand what's going on over there . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on April 23, 2014 at 2:25 PM
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It is sad what is going on over there.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on April 23, 2014 at 12:07 PM
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TAPS
These are mere 'theatrical gestures' since 'we' have to be seen to be doing something in response to Russia's moves. But the West will never go to war over Ukraine, so your boys will simply get to see another part of the world, LOL...And I fully understand your disappointment over the denuding of your 'wilderness' - I feel depressed when I walk my doggie through our streets, denuded of their trees...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 23, 2014 at 11:58 AM
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What a risk we take when we destroy the green things, the oxygen
producers, the habitat for pollinators and the invisible life forms that turn leaf mulch into fertile soil. It's not just the beauty that dies. As for the sabre-rattling, I hate it, too. All the children there, another generation to be shadowed by fear of war; we owe them more.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 23, 2014 at 8:41 AM
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Re: TAPS,
Their very presence in the neighborhood just might provide some incentive towards diplomacy.
A few years ago in Washington State, there was a place, a peculiar 'mounded prairie' that lay out in the open, some, and some under fir woods. Some moron got the idea there, too, to denude much of the area of the fir trees, for fear they would make the mounds hard to see and enjoy. They destroyed in particular one of the sweetest little glades, as well as leaving stumps and ugliness where they passed. I wept with fury when I saw it, and that one of my very most favorite places was destroyed for my lifetime.
posted by
Ciel
on April 23, 2014 at 7:52 AM
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Nothing in this life is certain Taps.I know it is a big bluff sending troops, but it is not so for the loved ones who remain uncertain. Sad about your little Haven, some have no imagination.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 23, 2014 at 7:39 AM
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