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[kinzel]

Sun came up early, but it was behind clouds. No matter: sunup means the guns can go off, near and far. Spring turkey season is here. The weather -- looks like a chance of rain every day for the next week, or at least through next Monday night...so guess we'll have some wet hunters. The local farmers have been spraying their fields with manure, so we may well have some smelly wet hunters.

Since I mentioned that there was a gay marriage bill in Maine and lots of out-of-staters explaining to us that the sanctity of their marriage was in danger from it, I thought I should mention that the bill has passed both House and Senate ... which doesn't make it a done deal, but it is much closer:
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/6296211.html

This evening we visit a local writing class; I'll get some writing in this morning, do a bit of work down to the office, come back for an early dinner, and go out to the class. I could easily have a 2 county, 5 town day, looks like.

Can anyone suggest a preferred tree-ID book? Some of these leaves are hard to tell apart and we're deciding which of the saplings should go and which should grow in the fringes of lawn we're allowing to go unmowed.

Oh, and have you seen the stickynote waterfalls and other such:

the mother lode is at -- http://eepybird.com/embed.html

and then for you car-and-driver types, watch this, it'll make your accelerator foot twitch:
http://www.hyundaigenesis.com/coupe/

There, now that I've brought American productivity to a standstill, have a nice day.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Tree ID -- Merle recommends GOLDEN FIELD GUIDE: TREES OF NORTH AMERICA by C. Frank Brockman and R. Merrilees. This comes in a larger and smaller paperback version, and the larger is the one you want -- ISBN 1-58238-092-9. Our version is ancient, but the nature center still sells the series.

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

I've got A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs by George Petrides, part of The Peterson Field Guide Series. My copy is from the 70's, I always wished it had some color photos, but otherwise very serviceable.

[laurajunderwood.livejournal.com]

The Peterson Field Guides have actually been updated in recent year with really good color illustrations. (Thus Sayeth the Librarian).

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[apolias.livejournal.com]

Nice day-lilly.

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[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Thank you... if you come by once the season gets underway you'll find my daily day lily count. I must start a second front sometime soon...

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

I was having problems trying to distinguish chestnut sort-of seedling trees from seedling oaks... miserabledamntreerats plant oaks under the Chinese chestnut tree. There are mature American chestnuts within pollinator insect flight distance from the tree, and so there are half American, half Chinese sprouted chestnut trees in my yard (despite miserabledamnbunnyrabbitwhichgnawsonallsortsofthings (miserabledamnrabbit even majorly chewed up the poncirus trifolatia, which has vicious spikes on it!).

There are things I can't necessarily remember names of all the time, but I know they're on the Masschusetts pest plant list--things like buckthorn and certain types of honeysuckle.

One bramble in my yard on that list, which I planted years ago (before it was on the list) is wineberry--the good news is that miserabledamnbunny attacked some of that, meaning that it's less pestilent now. The reason why it landed on the pest plant list is its vigor in spread and paucity of natural enemies--however, with Mr Damnrabbit snacking away chewing it into pieces (I've sequentially lost purple raspberry canes, then red raspberry canes several winters later in addition, to miserabledamnrabbit in winter--and this past winter discovered that something, which I presume is the rabbit, was chewing through the wineberry canes, too), its enthusiatic spreading's gotten literally pruned back somewhat.