Woodpecker Tree

Slept in, watched tv a bit, no pics, no walk...hmmph...pic up is from awhile back during the storms...sunny hazy cloudy cool....thinking I better go do a drawing or painting of the Woodpecker Tree before it falls over!...Lilypad Pond a late post addition--reviewing yesteryears' postups, I noted some other Pond pics...oh, the blog has begun to feedback into itself...I imagine novelists run into this!!

Hedgerows

Talkedabout at work a bit about the Big Valley's lack of Trees...'Birds are where there is Water and Tree Lines, I'd say'....'...spinach e coli outbreak was blamed on hedgerows, mice and such living in them...'....hmmph....did some searches, and here's one that has an effort to introduce hedgerows....

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Hedgerow Farms, Winters, California

In an industrial agricultural region of California's Central Valley, a county-wide movement is under way to reverse decades of "clean" farming practices. Yolo County's conservation-based agriculture movement began like many initiatives around the country, with the efforts of a few brave individuals. Twenty years ago, unsatisfied with a landscape devoid of native habitat along ditch banks, between fields, and along roads, John and Marsha Anderson began bringing the edges of their 500-acre Hedgerow Farms back to life.

http://www.defenders.org/programs_and_policy/habitat_conservation/habitat_conservation_basics/farmlands/examples/strips_and_patches_of_natural_habitats.php

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that's cool. the pic came along with the copy/paste!...a pic for today!

here's another site that extols the benefits of hedgerows, which were indeed imperiled by the e coli for a bit, but supporters were able to keep the rows from being plowed under willynilly....

http://www.caff.org/programs/farmscaping/hedgerowin.shtml