Archive for April, 2008

The war on sudafed, and the evils of trees

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Basically, for those that don’t know, nonflowering trees pollinate differently than most other plants (eg: flowers): rather than insect-mediated pollination (where bugs fly flower-to-flower), a lot of trees do wind-mediated pollination — which means basically from the middle of April through the early part of June, they dump tons of pollen into the air. [...]

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Local water

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Do you ever think to yourself something along the lines of … “I am amazed by what I’m seeing, and I will be back tomorrow to see it again and to photograph it” only to learn that tomorrow it will be gone?
So about a block away from my house, there’s a wooded area that apparently [...]

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