JIM CONRAD'S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER Issued from Hacienda Komchen de Los Pájaros just outside Dzemul, Yucatán, Mexico December 26, 2004
***** WINTER SOLSTICE-CELBRATION WALK, 2004 To celebrate the beginning of another natural annual cycle, last Tuesday, the Winter Solstice, I strapped on my backpack and started walking. Here's part of what I saw and experienced: Tuesday, December 21 Chores keep me busy until dusk. As I leave Komchen, already the sky is darkening and the clouds are growing purple. Out on the road I turn north, toward the Gulf beach. Along both sides of the road an abundant, head- high bush with bright yellow composite flowers very like our Spanish Needles is in full bloom. The blossoms so abound that the roadsides glow yellow in the failing light. I whistle the tune of Alice on her Yellow Brick Road. I make only a couple of miles before it's so dark I must pitch the tent. I place it next to a thorny acacia with frilly, twice-compound leaves. Light from the 3/4- full moon fills my tent so it's like sleeping in a Chinese lantern afloat in night-insect sounds... http://www.backyardnature.net/n/04/041226.htm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com BiFem :) a bifem.net publication -------------------------------- Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem Chatoom: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem/chat Visit BiFemLounge our 24 hour chatroom at http://bifem.net Get a New Orleans Free Email account at http://bifem.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiFem/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
