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[Environmental]
Date Posted:
11/14/2007
6:55:10 pm EST
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Conspiracy Of Oaks Makes Acorn Showers
Author: Ben Windham Source: Tuscaloosa News (AL)
Title: CONSPIRACY OF OAKS MAKES ACORN SHOWERS
I’ve been thinking about acorns. I’ve noticed many more of them on the ground in our neighborhood this fall than I can remember ever seeing before.
They literally carpet the east side of our backyard, dominated by a big white oak tree. They’re also all over our driveway. Up the hill, where Pelham Heights Road intersects with Firethorn Drive, cars have squashed so many acorns that the intersection is splotched yellow.
Acorns are in all the gutters, too. They crackle agreeably underfoot when I walk our corgi up that way.
During the infrequent times when I’m outside doing yard work, I hear acorns dropping elsewhere as well. I’ve never seen or heard so many.
At first, I attributed this deduction to years of training as an editorialist and investigative reporter. However, my wife told me recently that she’d noticed the same thing — a bumper crop of acorns this fall.
I decided I’d better call Mary Jo Modica over at the Arboretum — which is not far from our house, as the crow flies — to find out what was happening.
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| *LOL* | Nov 16th. at 2:40:52 am EST
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Katmandu (elba, Alabama) - Email Me
When life gives you acorns, throw them around your yard and watch your nutty dog chase them.
The pun was intended.
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| ? | Nov 15th. at 12:31:22 am EST
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Pranxtor (Denham Springs, Louisiana) - Email Me
I live in a swamp or on college campus (depending on the day of the week) so faile to see why he cares. Though it is cool that tree's comunicate which is proofe they live rather than just grow.
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| Trees Do Communicate | Nov 14th. at 10:44:26 pm EST
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
There is a great program on the Nature channel regarding acacia trees and giraffes - the trees put out a bitter posion to discourage giraffes from eating them - but not all the time. When a giraffe starts nibbling on a tree, the tree sends a pheromone signal to the other trees in the grove to put out the chemical - so the giraffe gets to eat some, but not enough to destroy the trees.
Research has shown that carrots actually cringe away from the knife cutting them. Makes you pause - even vegetables know they are being cut and consumed.
Treat your food with respect - something died for you - fish, fowl, beast or plant.
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| A Decent, If Placid, Article..... | Nov 14th. at 10:33:15 pm EST
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Arachne Priestess (Cookeville, Tennessee) - Email Me
The only thing I can see to complain about is one statement at the end:
"I guess I need to haul out another volume of Cousin Earl’s columns. The one titled “How Not to Worry About the Love Life of Spiders.”
Perhaps I'm just weird, but I enjoy watching spiders in their many rituals and mundane tasks. I'm willing to bet their mating is no exception, though perhaps not as invigorating as climaxing forests and internet porn.
Yeah, I admit it......I'm weird. But raise your hand if you can actually claim, with a straight face, to be normal in this eclectic pagan community of ours. Heh Heh! Or as the Christians would say, 'Let he who is without weird, cast the first stone'. LOL
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