Adventures in Social Distancing 4: Holy Week

Spring ephemerals began their yearly appearance during Holy Week.
The lock-down had afforded me the opportunity to reacquaint myself with some species that I hadn't seen in several years.

I allowed my time for wildflower viewing to be restricted to the weekends for far too many years.
Time is gift so easily squandered, isn't it?

The following photos were captured at Maybury State Park in Wayne County and Oakland County, MI (which incidentally contains the highest point in the Rouge River watershed).

Pre-blooming trillium (probably Trillium grandiflorum)

Early stage of May-apple (Podophyllum peltatum)

Blooming bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

Cutleaf toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)

More bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

Hard to tell, but I think this is a wood frog.

I haven't ID'd this one yet. Bueller?...Bueller? Anyone?

Mourning cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)

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Good reads of 2009

I haven't made a list like this in a while, and I believe I discussed most of these on the blog as I finished them, but I thought I'd make a handy short-hand list for you and me. These are only in the order I read them and do not indicate any preference. The Open Door * Frederica Mathewes-Green The Children of Hurin * J.R.R. Tolkien The Omnivore's Dilemma * Michael Pollan Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope * Eric T. Freyfogle Wonderful Fool * Shusaku Endo Up the Rouge: Paddling Detroit's Hidden River * Joel Thurtell and Patricia Beck Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation * Rodney Clapp (I started the following in December, but I haven't finished them--so far they are excellent: Love and Hate in Jamestown * David A. Price and The Picture of Dorian Gray * Oscar Wilde) Try one of these--let me know.

Worth Quoting

There are but three social arrangements which can replace Capitalism: Slavery, Socialism, and Property. --Hilaire Belloc ...

Thing 10

Why did you select it? Were you also able to download a video? On my previous post I knocked YouTube--and I stand by that knocking, but I did say there were some worthwhile things on there. Here is one of them; I discovered this in the summer of '07 on two different blogs. While not a perfect fit for the idea of localism, it certainly is a jeremiad against globalization. A British group bemoaning a loss of their culture (oh, yes, it is rich with irony, but these aren't imperialists). Enjoy. I tried a couple of different videos to download including this, but to no avail. Zamzar is interesting and could be useful for the classroom, but I kept getting "file has no extension" error messages. I'll have to try again.

I Am Not Hamlet

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