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[Environmental]
Date Posted:
12/15/2005
6:06:27 am EST
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Green Hibernation
Author: Linda Jarsky Source: Boise Weekly
Title: Green Hibernation
An inversion figured prominently in my last piece, and it had broken by the time the issue was in the stand. It's flippin' cold as I write, and I'm entirely willing to bet that it will be this cold again, possibly on the day this article breaks.
My back door is frozen shut. My garage door has tremors. Icicles hang from my hot tub cover, and the big rhododendron snuggled up to it has rolled its leaves into dreadful looking tubes of anguish. My arborvitae, jealous of deciduous trees that flaunt a costume change before their curtain call, has acquired a tone of burnished gold. Ornamental grasses, from the coppery sedge (its detractors call it "dead-looking" all year) to maiden grasses with opalescent seed heads, assume a papery character that rustles a distinctive song. Many deciduous trees have shed their leaves and revealed their specific shapes for the world to see. Even the baddest plant in the palette, Yucca filamentosa, is a skinny little shadow of its usually buff self. Each of these plants is exhibiting some degree of dormancy.
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| ...And Human Hibernation | Dec 15th. at 10:13:39 am EST
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Michael Welch (Audubon, New Jersey) - Email Me
Growing up in alternate (urban city and farming) environments, I also found myself moving through a "hibernating" existence during the Fall/Winter months. Being enamored with (and instructed by) Nature, I assumed that we all lucidly experienced such transitions. Finding that many don't, there was a bit of isolation experienced in childhood. Now I see that we all move through our "hibernation" experiences differently...some more subtlely (and in different seasons) , and my heart soars with the understanding that we still move with Nature--whether through unconscious coercion or conscious consent. Whatever we call it; "For everything, there is a season."
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