September 13, 2005
The Blue Heron Remains
She's still around, right here in river city -- I pursue her each morning at dawn, catch her posing in different silhouettes, munching (a much as one can munch with a bill) on seaweed and fishes, scrapping with the gulls and geese, hoping to catch her digitally in flight -- no mean trick. I forget to look at the sunrise. This could get to be a bore. The hard drive on my laptop is heron glutted.
In addition there are wooden, and metal blue herons in familiar places that I never noticed before.
I have the message. I'm actually fairly far along in my disaster preparations, but I really don't have a great way of boiling water yet, which is a must. It looks like it would take hours to boil a pot of water on one of those little camp stoves. The BBQ heat is too dispersed, and I doubt we'll have anything grillable -- grilled canned salmon with grilled dried shitakes? A cord of wood has been vetoed by those who think I am a hysterical doomsayer, and it wouldn't be easy to hide, should I purchase it myself. "I'll eat cold food", I was told. When it comes to that fifty pound bag of jasmine rice, it's not only going to be cold, but very crunchy.
Photo note: Looks like two, doesn't it
Posted by Dakota at September 13, 2005 11:30 AMMaybe the heron is a sign. Maybe she is trying to tell you that even if the Avian Flu comes here, we will survive and they will survive.
Nothing can stop the turning of our beautiful world unless we allow it.
Posted by: Laura Moncur at September 13, 2005 12:46 PMDefinitely a sign and some of the Herons will survive.
WHO via Reuters via Effect Measure:
"This is perhaps the only time since 1968, which was the last pandemic, that we are getting signs, symptoms and warnings from nature ... More and more birds are dying in different parts of the world -- this is the kind of signals and early warnings that we are referring to," she told reporters in late July.
Urgently preparing for an outbreak should save lives.
But only 40 of WHO's 192 member states have drawn up pandemic preparedness plans, with varying degrees of scope. (Reuters)
Posted by: An0n at September 13, 2005 06:31 PMHi Laura-
It's always lovely to hear from you.
I think I have quite a good chance of surviving the flu at this point, Busy Beaver that I've been. I do hope you have made a few arrangements too.
Honestly, I'm not writing about this to depress everyone. I like to think of it as helping my dear readers to make informed decisions.
I promise to post something pretty in the near future. Best D
Posted by: Dakota at September 14, 2005 07:11 AM