Comments on: Nature doesn’t stay hit

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:06:27 +0000

Don’t forget the cats mom, it also makes a great fort for cats! That’s hilarious about the water meter tho, but who can blame them?
Jason, that is fascinating about the oranges. I had no idea. Of course, we have our own little clementine/tangerine/whatever tree that is currently working on it’s second round of fruit for the year (it seems a bit late to me, but who am I to argue?) so we don’t really buy many oranges. Loving the blog!

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:22:08 +0000

Bougainvillea is a very vicious plant–it bites! I am the bush trimmer at my house and I can’t get to the top of my very healthy Boug. And it ate a good set of clippers–they’re in there somewhere, but we can’t get to them!It does “protect” my water meter–and the water company keeps sending us the same (relatively low) bill.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:35:30 +0000

I love the “don’t stay hit” reference; kids in the South Bronx have more in common with Bougainvillea, which they’ve likely never seen, than I thought.
@Mike-Great points on the drought. I had no idea…And here I was blaming my neighbor for watering at noon.

By: Mike Crolene

Mike Crolene — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:12:45 +0000

I like how you incorporated that little Orange tidbit. On a similar note from Rebecca Solnit at LATimes we get:
Take water. My friend Derek Hitchcock, a biologist working to restore the Yuba River, likes to say that California is still a place of abundance. He recently showed me a Pacific Institute report and other documents to bolster his point. They show that about 80% of the state’s water goes to agriculture, not to people, and half of that goes to four crops — cotton, rice, alfalfa and pasturage (irrigated grazing land) — that produce less than 1% of the state’s wealth. Forty percent of the state’s water. Less than 1% of its income. Meanwhile, we Californians are told the drought means that ordinary households should cut back — and probably most should — but the lion’s share of water never went to us in the first place, and we should know it.