I’m sure Amy Stewart’s fair trade coffee will taste especially good this morning when the GardenRanter savors it while reading her op-ed contributor column in the NY Times, How the Worm Turns
She ledes:
BIRDS have all the luck. New or rare species get discovered and written up in scientific journals and celebrated for their curved bills or their salmon-colored feathers or their unusual techniques for extracting seeds from pine cones.
When the ivory-billed woodpecker was reported to have been spotted in Arkansas after 50 years in hiding, the bird became an overnight celebrity.
I can relate. I have friends who work at the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology (the folks who spearheaded the ivory-billed woodpecker search) and a neice who’s a crow researcher. We gardeners are often passionate, but not like the bird people.
Read the rest of Amy’s Earth Day tribute to worms.
Brother… the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (and the American Ornithologists Union)… talk about a mecca for birders.
To me, birds and gardens are connected. The same.
Birds are part of my gardening experience.
Cornell.
I need to change my life. Is there sailing on the finger lakes?
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Sailing? You bet:
http://www.sailithaca.com/
http://www.yachtworld.com/fingerlakes/
And believe it or not, you can sail from Ithaca to the ocean through the Erie Canal system through the St. Lawrence Seaway.