tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post5795666375609565636..comments2023-12-05T12:57:58.671-07:00Comments on that's just the wild wood: Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12546069846136464138noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-63132885199510139232012-04-14T13:23:36.803-06:002012-04-14T13:23:36.803-06:00Hi Lené
I am happy we have the cabin now in Saska...Hi Lené<br /><br />I am happy we have the cabin now in Saskatchewan, so we have a retreat from the city and a more wild area to enjoy.<br /><br />Regards<br />GuyGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12546069846136464138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-487196846890620582012-04-11T22:41:07.283-06:002012-04-11T22:41:07.283-06:00Hi Guy,
This is a powerful series. I feel very lu...Hi Guy,<br /><br />This is a powerful series. I feel very lucky to live in a primarily forested landscape now, where people work hard to protect it. <br /><br />Warmly,<br />LenéLené Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10018280698586741856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-87673074908033957622012-04-01T20:38:43.178-06:002012-04-01T20:38:43.178-06:00Hi Kathie
Thanks I did find the poem by Pack was ...Hi Kathie<br /><br />Thanks I did find the poem by Pack was really well written and he said some things I have perhaps only felt deep in my heart until now.<br /><br />Thanks for commenting.<br /><br />GuyGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12546069846136464138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-34411828277207073202012-04-01T19:24:36.176-06:002012-04-01T19:24:36.176-06:00Guy, what a thoughtful and sad post, though I do s...Guy, what a thoughtful and sad post, though I do see some beauty in your photography. I love the poem by Robert Pack, especially theses lines, "I knew I'd have to face my aging<br />and my death, but not<br />the death of forests, not of oceans, not the air:"Kathie Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10377224759599266209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-11377844064732662242012-04-01T17:43:43.793-06:002012-04-01T17:43:43.793-06:00Hi Gary
I am glad to hear you stick up for readin...Hi Gary<br /><br />I am glad to hear you stick up for reading. With the high cost of educations people speak out about a liberal arts education but since studies seem to say people will have a lot of careers in their life now, maybe they should experiment at school with both the arts and the sciences. I know my books both entertain and teach me about the world and my place in it. Whether it is the science fiction of Andre Norton or Clifford Simak or the pulp tinged writing of Lovecraft, to anything about evolution and Darwin, poetry or a classic like Moby Dick or the Divine Comedy they tell me how others felt, acted, perceived the world. Today when I see are the changes in the world I try to keep my perspective by remembering that Richard Burton wrote in 1621 '' I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, firs, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged, in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, &c., daily musters and preparations, (rest at link ) http://www.bookride.com/2007/04/anatomy-of-melancholy-robert-burton.html as he worried about the causes of depression ( he called it melancholy ) and that Thoreau in the 1850’s wrote “Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.” about the dangers of consumerism. This reminds me that people have always been concerned with the future and the changes it will bring. I am sure I will not like a lot of them but my plan is cultivate my own garden, and spend time with the weather and nature with a dog and a book close by.<br /><br />GuyGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12546069846136464138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-10645564640048274862012-04-01T16:53:04.628-06:002012-04-01T16:53:04.628-06:00Hi Gary
Your comment has got me thinking so you w...Hi Gary<br /><br />Your comment has got me thinking so you will get several replies.<br />As someone who in the past studied and worked in archaeology I have always been interested in why cities live and die. I was born in Windsor so I got to watch Detroit change from a vibrant city to a shadow. I always point to the closure of the Packard plant in 1956, the year I was born as an interesting event not because it closed but because the site was never reused. (pictures on the web ) At the time no one would have realized that this could be a sign that manufacturing in the US and Canada was beginning to decline. Now in Canada we are told that our population has to increase to fuel our lifestyle so Toronto expands further and further into the countryside gobbling up farmland and all the charming towns around it in a quest for more unaffordable housing. Calgary, Edmonton and now Saskatoon seem to be headed the same way. Meanwhile in Detroit and Cleveland they tear houses down and discuss ripping up expressways for urban farms and community gardens. It seems that should teach us to do things differently but I am not convinced we learn from the mistakes of the past.<br /><br />GuyGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12546069846136464138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-40402614273170793392012-03-30T11:50:54.073-06:002012-03-30T11:50:54.073-06:00I think Guy the cities are dying, strangled to dea...I think Guy the cities are dying, strangled to death by a dying economy, especially the US economy, and the death of education for education sake. Its fun just to read, not for any purpose,and now research is pointing out that manual exercise, the pursuit of thought just for fun inhibits senility. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-19803683303451794502012-03-29T20:09:52.389-06:002012-03-29T20:09:52.389-06:00Hi Sandy
Thanks. Your right this is sort of a uni...Hi Sandy<br /><br />Thanks. Your right this is sort of a universal architecture we have created around this landscape of industrialization a common language of fairly dreary objects.<br /><br />Regards<br />GuyGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12546069846136464138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1137553668555203001.post-50795126161909077972012-03-28T14:45:28.036-06:002012-03-28T14:45:28.036-06:00You got some really nice photos. The thing that al...You got some really nice photos. The thing that always hits me about areas like this is that they are all the same. You can't even tell what city you are in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com