Without fungi, we would have no mushroom risotto, no beef Wellington, no wine, no beer and no soy sauce.
And that would suck.
Archive for March, 2010
Kingdom Fungi
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010In The Wind
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Facts about the Macalester College wind turbine:
1. It produces 10 kilowatts.
2. The blades have a 27′ diameter which sit at the top of a 90′ pole.
3. Over it’s 20-30 year lifetime, the clean energy it produces will offset some 1.2 tons of air pollutants and 250 tons of greenhouse gas.
World Water Day
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
March 22.
Happy World Water Day 2010.
Asphalt Concrete
Friday, March 19th, 2010
This was one of those little things that made me see an every day reality from a completely different vantage point.
Yes it’s 100 percent recyclable, and no, I don’t have a better idea, but what an odd notion asphalt concrete really is. Smearing wide swaths of petroleum over the landscape for the sake of speed and the efficiency of travel. It’s like an addiction. Once you put down a roadway, a path or a parking lot, you have to keep feeding it more oil from time to time.
We must feed the beast.
I Will Be Waiting
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
I found a five dollar bill on the sidewalk yesterday. That makes three times recently, all within a couple blocks of here, that cash has unexpected presented itself to me. My suspicion is that the fabled Money Tree does in fact exist, and I have now triangulated it’s location based on my finds. Come spring the Money Tree will bloom. Thousands and thousands of glorious blooms. Bales of currency in every denomination. And when that happens, I will be waiting.
Oh yes, I Will Be Waiting…
Sublime Signage, Verse 1
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
What kind of deranged ego decides to name their apartment building a “tower” when it’s only 23′-6″ tall?
Rohrschach
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Rohrschach.
That’s what I thought when I took this photo. Not the perfect symmetry of a snowflake, but it’s still interesting to see a stream working through it’s snow blanket with this kind of balance.
Right down to those little dimples at the top.
A Witches Brew
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Water, barley, hops and yeast. The alchemy of brewing beer.
Seen here: the copper brew tank at the Summit Brewery in St. Paul Minnesota.
Thanks to Adobe Photoshop, and the alchemy of digital photography.