[lit-ideas] Re: 4th of July
- From: carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:46:10 -0700
As a newcomer to Portland (SW--West Slope area), I watched the fireworks
show from my sofa, thanks to the skylights in my livingroom; simultaneously,
from the deck, I watched Beaverton's display. Nirvana...
Carol,
adding to the population of Portland, Oregon
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Ritchie wrote, after I said that a 500-year-old Sequoia tree helped
> block my view of the spectacle on the lake shore
>
> What an odd place for such an old Sequoia to be. I had thought we are
>> north of their natural range and wikipedia seems to confirm this, "The
>> northern boundary of its range is marked by two groves on the Chetco River
>> on the western fringe of the Klamath Mountains, 25 km (15 miles) north of
>> the California-Oregon border."
>>
>
> [s. David] who planted a sequoia in his own backyard in
>> Portland, Oregon.
>>
>
> My locating such an ancient tree near us was pure hyperbole. There may be
> some old growth trees still standing around here, but none of them
> would be a Sequoia. There's a Sequoiadendron giganteum on the Reed campus,
> but it's an import.
>
> Robert Paul
>
>
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