[lit-ideas] Re: 4th of July
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:57:08 -0500
Hi, Carol,
I was thinking about you just the other day while musing on where have all the
women gone -- Mars needs women -- that kind of thinking. Then Sue Trevor
shows up out of nowhere, says she MIGHT respond to my post someday, and now you
pop up. Even Judy and Julie seems to fallen into a hiatus. So you're in
Portland OR now. Good place to be -- have only driven through it myself. Got
a little leery when I saw a van advertising that they pumped out basements!
Anyhow, glad to know you're still around.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: carol kirschenbaum
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 4:46 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: 4th of July
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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