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Fortunately Koko can just come inside and do something else. He has more sense than to try to garden or raise fruit trees. As Peter Mayle says In a Year in Provence,
It would be fighting nature, and nature always wins. It has more stamina and it never stops for lunch.
Mayle does have a point. Here’s a picture Andy took in 2004:
He added the description,
Golden delicious tree struggling after gophers, mice, insects, turkeys and bear. It will be interesting to see whether this tree makes it.
Well, no it didn’t. But if it had survived it would have burned up in the 2011 fire.
There are worse things than having nature avoid you.
July 24 , 2016
Nature is the biggest mystery that mankind faces.
Mankind is part of nature, too. So far it has been one of the most successful species, but that may not always be true. Sooner or later something will come along to decrease our numbers. It won’t be pleasant.
trees just have my heart.
I have always considered them as sacred.
shade. fruit. beauty.
and they give us oxygen.
our very lives depend on them. our rain forests especially.
that was such a horrid fire you suffered. fire is always so devastating.
The trees in the West are in deep trouble because of the drought. Even if they don’t burn they’re being attacked by spruce bud worms, bark beetles, tent caterpillars, etc. This site says in recent years more trees have been killed by bark beetles than by fire. It breaks my heart too. 🙁