Odo 4308.3 (morning)
10:30am sitting in the only store in Carmine eating a hamburger
because they aren't making breakfast anymore. I'm looking at the stuff
on the isles. Condensed milk, beans, soup, spam, cake mixes - and I
get an idea for a new cooking show. Something like "Convenience Store
Cookoff". Chefs vying to make great dishes with only stuff from a
typical convenience store. 7-11 ought to sponser it!
It's cold today, about 45, but pretty windy, perhaps 10-15 mph winds.
It's from the north, and I'm going east, so it's not good, but it
could be worse. Progress is mixed all day. Stopping in a country store
in Indepedence, I discover cyclists had stopped there just yesterday.
The question is: which way were they going?
Along the way I notice a spot that appeals to me. It appears to be a
small park that commorates the founding of a babtist church. It is the
park area that is most interesting. There are about 5 clumps of oak
trees in a rough circle, and each clump of oaks is itself a circle of
oaks. These trees look to be about 150-200 years old. The space had a
certain power to it, although it would be hard to verbalize it.
In Navasota, I eat and try to determine where the RV park is. I never
quite find it and end up in another Indian run motel.
Cough-cough...
ReplyDeleteAs a one-time, former, sorta, kinda, professional botanist, I just have to chime in and comment on those circles of oaks. It's a common thing with certain oaks in certain areas. They're called "oak motts", and are really a single plant (root system) with multiple trunks ("trees"). One acorn took root, probably near the center of the rough circle (not all motts appear as neat circles), and there you have it! Somewhat akin to the "fairy ring" fungal circles.
-- Steve W