Comments on: Behind the pretty pictures https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:29:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1917 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:29:27 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1917 butuki – Thanks. Yeah, going for a walk with a fellow shutterbug can be a great way to see more (and talk less), I’ve found. If you ever make it to this part of the world, be sure to look me up.

]]> By: butuki https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1916 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:10:19 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1916 Man, Dave, I wish we could go for a long walk together. I’d love to spend time in the woods not saying a word, just both of us looking and listening and sensing, and seeing what we both notice. I love your morning dew cabbage butterfly photo.

]]> By: Bill https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1915 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:01:23 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1915 Jackets are just so handy. Glad you don’t mind the grafitti on your box-car.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1914 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:48:45 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1914 Thanks, Larry.

Pablo – Yeah, one stalk releases how many hundreds of seeds, each of which will remain viable for the next century?

Here, mullein is just an occasional colonist of openings. It’s the Japanese stiltgrass and the garlic mustard that are really crowding out the native forbs.

Bill – I like that! Thanks. As it happens, the post I’m currently working on has to do with coats, also.

]]> By: Bill https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1913 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:26:24 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1913 Death might well up
A torrential river
Climbing into the mind
Were one not to sling
It off like so much dew
From a snapped coat
Resolving in a thousand drops.

]]> By: pablo https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1912 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:59:46 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1912 I don’t think the mullein have anything to worry about from me. If i remove a dozen, there are still a dozen dozen I have missed.

]]> By: Larry Ayers https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1911 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:18:11 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1911 Your photos are inspiring to me — you have a discerning eye indeed.

I’ve always liked that Leopold quote.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1910 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:56:17 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1910 Dale – Right on. Thanks for the explanation.

B.A. – Would you believe i haven’t had a beer in over two months? Which could explain a lot, actually.

Don’t get me started on wind plants.

]]> By: Beer Activist https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1909 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:37:58 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1909 “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.�

Indeed.

As you are able to find beauty in nature despite living in a lonely wounded world, I find beauty in fine beer.

With a Brooklyn Brewery (100% wind-powered) East India Pale Ale in hand, cheers! To you and the world. Keep up the pretty pictures.

]]> By: dale https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1908 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:40:33 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/08/behind-the-pretty-pictures/#comment-1908 Well, the elegiac tone, the assertion that it’s beautiful anyway — I guess it chimes with the way I’ve come to hold this knowledge, and it’s nice to have company. God knows I understand the anger with which this understanding is usually held, but it’s an ongoing disaster so huge, and moving ahead with so much inertia, that anger feels inadequate to it, in a way. Or anyway an anger that would be adequate to it would also eat you alive.

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