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Pope Francis

Weirdly they don’t bother me - in 2019 I climbed with Nick and Karina’s TreeCareLA crew and once they heard I wasn’t reactive to Platanus guess which trees I got assigned… They have an interesting species out there: P. racemosa (Western sycamore). The spherical fruit clusters/seed heads unlike...

A short visit with family up in Lancaster, PA yesterday (photo is wife and her three sisters) to see a niece and her husband we hadn’t seen in a few years ( they lived in Denver, moved to Madison about a year ago). Did not stay long as they have two large, long-haired dogs (Denali and Rainier)...

Add the Maryland State Champ White Oak to your rec climb list - come on down and stay a bit - I’ll get you on a lathe to turn yourself a nice salad bowl or something artistic!

It’s a full time job just keeping your vehicles going!

My ‘62 XKE was a thrill to drive (2 to 3 days a week, and worked on it the other 4 to 5 days 🤣). The whole idea of brakes in close to the rear differential was to reduce unsprung weight to keep the tires in contact with the road better…

OA pain, in decreasing order: hands, left ankle, neck, shoulders, left hip…

Climbed mostly in the 1970s, New River Gorge and Seneca Rocks in W VA, the Gunks in NY, etcetera out here. Most of the time went climbing with two friends... one who lived out West, where we left all our gear one year. He was the friend with Bi-Polar issues and thinking the world was soon t...

This April 1st was the least funny in many years; you saved April Fool’s Day!!!! It only needs an air-tight, bulletproof, dust cover, - as of course it will be hung in the back of many a chip truck 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Kitty Dukakis: “I hope readers won’t miss Katharine Seelye’s moving obituary for Kitty Dukakis, the former first lady of Massachusetts. Dukakis suffered for years from depression and substance abuse — and then dealt with her challenges with a degree of courage and openness that made her an...

Brian James, Pioneer of Punk Rock, Is Dead at 70 - As the guitarist and main songwriter for the Damned, he helped spark an explosion on the British music scene in the 1970s

Drove the Dragon back in November... it was slow, since the I-40 bridge is out due to Helene, and a lot of folks were on it.

Joan was a Biology professor in Maryland. She started the Old Growth Forest Network to protect the small pockets of remaining old growth. I donate to the cause and have many of her books. “Teaching the Trees, Lessons from the Forest” is a great read,, as she is an astute plant scientist and...

Burnham, Have you read any of Joan Maloof’s writings?

I wonder what our Forestry Msnagement members think of this: “Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in...