The Chestnut Gatherers

[NNadir]

1894

Georges Lacombe (1868-1916)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. beautiful...

thanks for posting it.

[NNadir]

2. My pleasure.

[XemaSab]

3. Lovely picture!

Thanks for posting that. :)

[NNadir]

4. The really sad thing is that it's about Chestnut trees.

Everytime I see a copy of this painting, I want to cry.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/27/194641/982/1000/543105

[XemaSab]

5. Yeah, I thought about posting something depressing about chestnuts and elms

I saw an elm tree the other day at the nursery, and it depressed the hell out of me.

I don't know anything about the effects of chestnut blight in Europe, but it makes me wonder if there's any hope for ecosystem "recovery" here with such a critical species missing. I guess we can find a new normal at some point, but there's a small part of me that holds out hope that we can restore that species here.

Speaking of changing ecologies, if you're in the mood for fun facts, I heard that Oregon Grape (Mahonia) is a horrible weed in Europe. I also heard that California poppy is a horrible weed in many places. It's odd to think of invasives as going in every direction at once, considering how badly California's ecology has been disrupted by foreigners.

I guess we've all got new systems that are going to fall into place.

(PS Don't feed the trolls. :eyes: )

[NNadir]

8. Please don't deny me my last few pleasures.

I have to feed the trolls, or else they will become an endangered species and an important part of our ecology would be missing.

If I can't gather chestnuts, I'll have to gather nuts of another kind.

It's really troubling though, this genetic homogenization that's underway on a planetary scale. It breaks my heart.

[XemaSab]

9. I think this troll is an ecological imbalance unto himself

:eyes:

[NNadir]

10. Nah. Just a stupid kid.

If it didn't exist, I'd have to invent it.

[XemaSab]

11. He's a damn expert in everything!

Why the hate? :P

[NNadir]

12. I cannot recall a time in my life that I did not hate ignorance, including my own.

[XemaSab]

13. I'm merely annoyed by my own ignorance

but that of others? :nuke:

[XemaSab]

6. Oh, and our dead birch tree has a future

as coarse wood, a habitat piece missing from our backyard ecosystem. ;)

Mmmm... refugia...

[leftyclimber]

7. Mmmm....fauvism.

Thank you for posting that.