If you ever want/need to move at one time I might have suggested up here, but instead of the stupid heat you're dealing with smoke from constant forest fires and more and more drought-like conditions every year.
It all reminds me of a t-shirt I saw the other day: Welcome to the coldest summer of the rest of your life.
late to read your latest, but oh! look at that clear river you paddle. too late for any of us to move, i've decided, even if we had the resources to do so. trying to be our best where we are closest to the land and to people.
Thanks for everything, especially the tip on Relación. I remember seeing it very late at night, years ago, and then watching it immediately the next day. So trippy, yet hyper-real. I particularly remember the depiction of the Indigenous Americans, how they seemed like extraterrestrials to the Spaniards, which struck me as brilliant.
I live in a gated community in Naples FL ~1 sq mile, 30 lakes (retention ponds) totalling 170 acres. I have kayaked the lakes a few times but decided to quit, partly because it seems to terrify the birds. Waders, swimmers, divers alike all fly off when the kayak approaches anywhere near, say 10 yards. Are the birds you are encountering maybe less skittish because they are in a more natural environment?
We get great & little blue, green, & tri-colored herons; great & snowy egrets; limpkins; white & glossy ibis; anhingas, cormorants, grebe & brown pelicans; muscovy & mottled & migrating ducks; gallinules, & coots. Occasionally wood storks.
The birds around here vary in their wariness. Near the dam, there is so much human activity that they are not bothered unless you get quite close. On the river, they tend to be focused on their hunting or foraging. The woodland songbirds mostly stay much more hidden and distant—you often hear them but never see them. And juveniles of almost all species are always a lot less wary—distrust of humans seems to be learned.
If you ever want/need to move at one time I might have suggested up here, but instead of the stupid heat you're dealing with smoke from constant forest fires and more and more drought-like conditions every year.
It all reminds me of a t-shirt I saw the other day: Welcome to the coldest summer of the rest of your life.
Yeah, I don’t there are any places that will truly escape it, just some that will have different kinds of changes.
late to read your latest, but oh! look at that clear river you paddle. too late for any of us to move, i've decided, even if we had the resources to do so. trying to be our best where we are closest to the land and to people.
It’s a special spot—we’ll see if we can keep it that way 🙏💚
Another great post! Musique concrete and the Minutemen!! The Wiki page on musique concrete is pretty good, btw.
Thanks, Lee!
Thanks for everything, especially the tip on Relación. I remember seeing it very late at night, years ago, and then watching it immediately the next day. So trippy, yet hyper-real. I particularly remember the depiction of the Indigenous Americans, how they seemed like extraterrestrials to the Spaniards, which struck me as brilliant.
Thanks, Jesse! I’m looking forward to watching it.
I live in a gated community in Naples FL ~1 sq mile, 30 lakes (retention ponds) totalling 170 acres. I have kayaked the lakes a few times but decided to quit, partly because it seems to terrify the birds. Waders, swimmers, divers alike all fly off when the kayak approaches anywhere near, say 10 yards. Are the birds you are encountering maybe less skittish because they are in a more natural environment?
We get great & little blue, green, & tri-colored herons; great & snowy egrets; limpkins; white & glossy ibis; anhingas, cormorants, grebe & brown pelicans; muscovy & mottled & migrating ducks; gallinules, & coots. Occasionally wood storks.
The birds around here vary in their wariness. Near the dam, there is so much human activity that they are not bothered unless you get quite close. On the river, they tend to be focused on their hunting or foraging. The woodland songbirds mostly stay much more hidden and distant—you often hear them but never see them. And juveniles of almost all species are always a lot less wary—distrust of humans seems to be learned.
Yes, re juvies, 1x biking I wound up within 10’ of some small turkey vultures. They had to be juvies, adults would never let a human that close.