August 08, 2004
Flowers Bloom Unseen
All work and no play. I have no idea what this picture has to do with the price of tea in China, but I'm burning out on the textbook-Powerpoint grind and needed some diversion, momentarily.
This is an image I found from a trip to Floyd a few weeks back. When we moved here in 1997, there was a large, unhealthy tree (Norway Spruce?) in front of this brick home some 100 yards south of the traffic light in "downtown" Floyd. Rather than cutting it to the ground, the owners had one of the local chainsaw artists come in and fashion an eight-foot-tall likeness of a family matriarch, who now presides over the old homeplace. If you look carefully, you can see she carries a flower basket where living flowers bloom all summer long.
Okay. Back to figuring out how to explain Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium to students who don't know their homozygotes from their nanny goats. Poor kids. The show must go on.
I love the idea of creating something from something, and letting it stand as a testament to memories of what was, even while living and breathing in its altered state of death and life
so even though that photo didn't have much to do with the price of tea in China, it was still nice to look at, so thanks for sharing
Posted by: ntexas99 at August 8, 2004 11:58 AM
The family matriarch appears to have been a Viking. *G*
Posted by: feste at August 8, 2004 08:46 PM