Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Yeah some people like mountain climbing, they feel that sense of wonderment that you are referring to on the top of mountains, others like diving in the sea, others like the forest or the Aurora Borealis. Here the forest is not dangerous, but I have a friend from Montana who says that they get bears in their back yard, they got like bear proof garba ...[text shortened]... life. Man I could live up there no problem if i could make veggie burgers from wild mushrooms.

When we lived in Alaska, we used to pick these humungus wonderful mushrooms the size of plates, totally edible, we had mushroom steaks! That's how big they were!

Originally posted by sonhouse
Robbie, you might get a kick out of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY-ZoVMwGKM

Outstanding!
KJ

Originally posted by sonhouse
When we lived in Alaska, we used to pick these humungus wonderful mushrooms the size of plates, totally edible, we had mushroom steaks! That's how big they were!

morels?

I've seen pictures of them as big as that, mainly from friends who know
how much I love them and want to make me regret moving from the
midwest. We never got them that big, when I did live there. The largest
one I ever found was when I was playing golf I hit my ball it landed next
to one that was close to a half a pound, it tasted good!
Kelly

Originally posted by DeepThought
They don't know about context. Nice imagery in the OP by the way.

You mean the little church? I have mixed feelings about churches, you see the spire on that one is Norman in design, its square and resembles the parapet of a castle, almost militaristic in appearance. I find the larger ones to be ostentatious and when i think of the poverty that surrounded them it really makes me despair.

Originally posted by sonhouse
When we lived in Alaska, we used to pick these humungus wonderful mushrooms the size of plates, totally edible, we had mushroom steaks! That's how big they were!

Sure that's fine but what does a veggie do in wintertime?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I have to admit that I love trees. Chop down a tree and you chop down an entire community.

Are you willing to participate in any political activism that might contribute to a reduction in the number of trees getting cut down around the world?

Originally posted by FMF
Are you willing to participate in any political activism that might contribute to a reduction in the number of trees getting cut down around the world?

No political activities for me. Although I do plant trees. I have an Ash sapling that I have grown that I will plant somewhere.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Sure that's fine but what does a veggie do in wintertime?

In Alaska, all you can do is hope there are veggies at the local grocery unless you have an excellent power source and a greenhouse.

Originally posted by sonhouse
In Alaska, all you can do is hope there are veggies at the local grocery unless you have an excellent power source and a greenhouse.

I remember Adak Alaska, we would drive from one base to another on
the other side of the island. Adak national forst was between the two,
there was a sign that said, "You are entering and leaving Adak National
Forest" which was 6 puny trees next to each other. I had someone since
tell me (don't recall who) some smuck ran them over, what a moron.
Nothing grew up there but eagles, otters, rats, and tundra and a few
other creatures. 🙂
Kelly

Originally posted by KellyJay
I remember Adak Alaska, we would drive from one base to another on
the other side of the island. Adak national forst was between the two,
there was a sign that said, "You are entering and leaving Adak National
Forest" which was 6 puny trees next to each other. I had someone since
tell me (don't recall who) some smuck ran them over, what a moron.
Nothing grew up there but eagles, otters, rats, and tundra and a few
other creatures. 🙂
Kelly

Yes, Kuluk bay. Even in Anchorage the trees were skinny but I think they have always been like that, I don't think the forests were denuded like in Virginia and such in the US where in the 1700's entire forests were cut down for the young iron industry and now all there is is 3rd gen forests although some of those forests are recovering to something like their former glory.

So were you Adak army or Adak Navy?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
You mean the little church? I have mixed feelings about churches, you see the spire on that one is Norman in design, its square and resembles the parapet of a castle, almost militaristic in appearance. I find the larger ones to be ostentatious and when i think of the poverty that surrounded them it really makes me despair.

I was thinking of the poem, not the prose. A church was often the only stone building. So when war came along people could shelter in a building that was already fortified.

Originally posted by DeepThought
I was thinking of the poem, not the prose. A church was often the only stone building. So when war came along people could shelter in a building that was already fortified.

The poem, ok, yeah, thanks. I suppose if you have no stone, in Scotland we have crannogs which are like usually built surrounded by water, i saw some very ancient ones on the outer Hebrides, thousands of years old, built like round towers in the middle of a body of water.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Yes, Kuluk bay. Even in Anchorage the trees were skinny but I think they have always been like that, I don't think the forests were denuded like in Virginia and such in the US where in the 1700's entire forests were cut down for the young iron industry and now all there is is 3rd gen forests although some of those forests are recovering to something like their former glory.

So were you Adak army or Adak Navy?

Navy, I was a radioman on Mt Moffit (sp) for a year, 18 days, 23 hours,
and 12 mins. 🙂
Kelly

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Near my home along the Forth and Clyde canal built in the 1700's and now a national monument lies the parish of Cadder. A church of some description has stood on the same site since the 1100's which by any account is pretty ancient the present one having been erected in the 1800's. I went not to pay my respects to the diseased but to see a tree whi ...[text shortened]... ://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TrAfgqXvlJU/SwgWsxeygHI/AAAAAAAAAgE/xt9yaiZf1GI/s1600/cawder+graveyard.JPG

Now was this church a JW church, the only true church, or where they pagan Satan worshiping evangelicals?

Originally posted by whodey
Now was this church a JW church, the only true church, or where they pagan Satan worshiping evangelicals?

Its as far as I am aware a church of Scotland building.