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….of how things used to be
Those are lyrics to a song I know and I can’t for the life of me think what it is.
This really is pretty much all that’s left of the blossoms in the Ritterstrasse.
It’s like pink snow.
When our friends Isla and Bill were over here in 1986, we took them down to see the blossoms and then the pink snow a few days later.
Isla – in her mid-50s – picked up handfuls of the petals and whirled them into the air.
It was great.
Abraham Lincoln left a comment on the original post about the trees doing their best to attract pollinators.
That really is a major problem this year. Fruit orchardists are really concerned, because of the concurrent explosion of blossoms and also – perhaps more critically – because of bees abandoning hives in great numbers.
It’s called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and scientists are linking it to the effects of mobile phone radiation.
There’s also a quote from Einstein (that sounds more and more like an urban legend) that’s doing the rounds:
“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!”
A bit scary…
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>”And then, there were only women.”Survival of the fittest, Meg. Women would be long gone by then…
>JB!! Look!!
>And then, there were only women.
>Appreciate the comment about me and my post on the same or similar topic. I read the posts you mentioned. I also read others who say the earth will take care of itself and I believe it will but long after the human species have vanished. We put too much of us and our chemicals into the environment and even our president is so ignorant of the facts that he doesn’t think we have global warming. It is a deadly serious situation and until we stop polluting Nature it will only get worse. I am sorry to say this but I do believe it.I started an organization back in the early 1970s and it was all about environmental issues. At that time all correspondence was done by snail mail and it took a couple of weeks for a letter to go somewhere and get an answer back. It was a constant struggle and much of the news then was about horrible things like the skin falling off of golfers who walked on the course after it was sprayed with pesticides and other chemicals. It never makes the news in this country and if published at all is on the back page somewhere. Most of that is because we do not have investigative journalism in America. We have “managed” news.That was then. This is now and we are seeing the fruits of our nitwit ways back then.
>Nice flowers. Interesting quote.
>The disappearance of bees is definitely a serious problem. Every day this week I’ve read newspaper articles about it or heard commentary on tv. What to do? Scientists are currently stumped.Your photo is delightful; a blanket of pink petals is awfully appealing to me right now!
>doomsday is here!the caption is abs apt for the picture….lovely!thanks for stopping by, appreciate it.