[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:52:28 -0800
David Ritchie wrote
Tis a forest where we live, so we have that set of natural laws, but
there are also human rules for domestic spaces, which is to say rules
for interior living and for surfaces that are interior to that interior.
In our garden we have big firs, three feet across the base. Poisonous
salamanders live in the ground below. They require just a little
caution when planting stuff. You just handle them with gloves.
http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/toxin2.shtml
I grew up in Western Oregon, in the days when towns stopped at the town
line and there were no suburbs to speak of and no urban sprawl. Housing
'developments'(and developers) were unknown, so there were fields and
pastures and running brooks just a short bike ride away.
We saw plenty of newts (valuable for their eyes) and salamanders (who
could tell the difference?) near stream banks and boggy places. Oddly,
our parents never said a warning word about handling these toxic
creatures, nor were there dead cats lying about with salamander tails
protruding from their unknowing mouths.
I'm glad to hear that there are still a few salamanders (or newts)
around the Ritchie place. Maybe someday a Western Meadowlark will
settle there.
http://tinyurl.com/yjfup6l
Robert Paul
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