The phrase used by optimistic economists for the last year is starting to come to life. But I’m not going to talk about the economy, or politics, or even Team Blue (which, by the way, needs a mascot, I think … but Blue Devils is taken and I don’t think Blue Balls would go over [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Green’
Green Shoots
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, Personal Insights, tagged America, banana, bandwagon, beat, Blue Ball, Blue Devil, box, bruise, bull, Burpee, business, cardboard, caveat emptor, change, chemical, chlorophyll, claim, company, cost, country, crush, died, disgust, display, dollar, drop, E. coli, economist, economy, elbow grease, enforcement, exotic, family, fertilizer, fly, food, fresh, frost, funds, fungicide, garden, genetic engineer, government, Green, ground, Gurney, heirloom, herbicide, honor system, hybrid, Ides of March, ill, import, incident, investment, label, law, layover, lettuce, mango, market, mascot, order, organic, oversight, patch, pathogen, pesticide, plan, plane, plant, plate, plenty, poke, politics, popular, price, produce, regulation, rubbish, rule, season, seed, shoot, shovel, sick, soil, spinach, spray, spring, stipulation, store, summer, sun, supermarket, supplier, supply, Team Blue, test, tomato, variety, vegetable, Victory Garden, wam, Washington, Word War II, WWII on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dew or Don’t
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged agriculture, apple, banana, bite, bitter, canteloupe, commercial, cross, customer, eat, fail, farm, farming, flavor, flavorless, garden, gardener, genetically modified, Green, grocery, heart, honey, honeydew, ionion, juicy, melon, mulch, mushmelon, muskmelon, pollinate, produce, rain, refrigerator, ripe, roadside, seasonal, soil, species, sprout, stand, store, sugar, summer, sweet, taste, tasteless, tomato, tough, vineyard, volunteer, watermelon on September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have returned. And I come bearing the bad news that I believe agriculture has failed us. Or, more aptly, that we, as a species, have failed the practice of agriculture. On my trip, I picked up a few melons from a farm stand. I don’t usually drive for these trips but it wasn’t as [...]
Falling Hard
Posted in Daily Life, Photos, tagged angel, antique, Arizona, brick, butterfly, dancer, Flickr, foil, Green, hand, ice, jets, leaf, mosaic, orange, pose, red, red white and blue, sailboat, telephone, veins, wall, waterspout, wild vein, window on October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Enough with all the words for the moment. Here’s a random assortment of photos courtesy of Flickr peeps with autumn colors in mind. Let them take the place of all those worrisome thoughts that have been bugging you all week. Relax. Enjoy. 1. Wing of Fall`en Angel, 2. Milbert’s Tortoiseshell butterfly – White Mountains Arizona, [...]
New Mayor
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged Democrat, Green, Independent, Muskogee, Oklahoma, politics, Republican, vote, Whig on May 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You may have noticed this story already from the AP feed or MSNBC or some other news organization but I think it bears repeating. Muskogee, Oklahoma, has a new mayor. Aside from Merle Haggard fans, this probably holds little meaning. But don’t click to a new blog just yet, it gets a lot more interesting. You see, [...]