Via Interrobang's Livejournal (my blogroll conforms to Canadian Content laws), we have the sobering observation that the flowering of many fruit trees depends on a certain period of cold days. Certainly, this past year, I noticed that there was no foraged/scrumped fruit to be had... no mulberries, no cherries, no peaches, no apples, no quinces, no kousa-dogwood fruits. Put succinctly, this was a crap year for foraging, though the nettles have been plentiful and the fall re-growth is coming in luxuriously. Forget all of the idiots who claim that global warming will be a boon for agriculture, the fruit trees of the temperate world are well-and-truly boned. As someone who, despite living in a city, lives 'close to the earth', I can see consequences of climate change that most Americans would not notice... a lack, a delay, an alteration in a natural process. It's one thing to read about ocean acidification on a website or in a newspaper, it's another thing not to have any cherry cordial this year.
Post title derives from this, a topic I have blogged about before.
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Athing I have noticed in West Virginia:
We used to have Hairy Woodpeckers visiting the suet on the porch fairly often, and fewer Red-bellied Woodpeckers.
Now the Hairy Woodpeckers are scarcer.
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I'm going to have to pay closer attention to the woodpeckers here in NY. We really messed up the planet.
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