tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79969861212793239962024-03-05T22:47:54.501-06:00Amusing MusingsSummer 2017 EditionVeronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.comBlogger397125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-43342999096492028442017-05-21T11:29:00.001-05:002017-05-21T11:31:26.347-05:00Grizzly 399 lives on!The now 21-year old beloved Grand Teton National Park grizzly mother, known by her wildlife management number "399" has been seen again in this, the spring of 2017, with two new cubs. Evidently after her lone 2016 cub was killed by a car, she became receptive and crossed paths with a male grizzly in time to be impregnated again. Her longevity and her fecundity are remarkable. Fortunately, the Park Service is becoming more protective of her and her successive offspring. I understand the road through the area she has long frequented has been closed to auto and foot traffic to help give them safety and privacy to just be wild bears. Perhaps she'll lead the kids closer to the main road - not good for bears but good for my soul to see and maybe photograph them - while we're there next month.<br />
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Meanwhile, Yellowstone National Park has recently seen an increasing number of "roadside" female bears, including three or four mother grizzlies and cubs born either this year or last year. The yearlings will spend one more summer and winter with their mothers before being pushed away to pursue lives of their own and to allow their mothers to breed again. <br />
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Roadside bears - in theory, mother bears raise their cubs in proximity to human activity to discourage the greatest threat to their babies, male bears that kill them in the expectation that the mother will come into heat again (as did 399 last summer <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2016/07/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html" target="_blank">after "Snowy" died</a>) - are a hazard to people, cars, and themselves. This is Yellowstone grizzly bear number "815" who, after allowing a very sizable crowd to watch her and her year-old cub, came down from the rise where they had been napping to a pullout where cars were parked. Most people were out of their cars and some distance away, but some were close (I was not; this photo was taken with a 600 mm telephoto lens) and trying to get pictures with phone cameras and iPads, none of which have sufficient telephoto capability to assure a decent photo from a safe distance. Fortunately 815 just rooted around a bit, then led her cub past the pullout to where there were almost no pedestrians and all traffic was stopped to safely cross the road. <br />
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815's cub, born in 2016.<br />
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<br />Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-88861512674363741892017-04-03T15:34:00.004-05:002017-04-03T15:38:32.738-05:00HiatusAmusing Musings is on hiatus, largely because there's too much, rather than too little, to write about. Please check back periodically as, just like the mountain blue birds, the muse may return and the musings may resume at any time. <br />
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The female grizzly bear known by her wildlife management number as "399" has raised family after family of cubs near the roadside at the northern end of Grand Teton National Park since her first set of triplets in 2006. The rate of survival of her cubs has been extremely low; some disappear between their first and second years due to natural, but otherwise unknown circumstances (as is very common in grizzly bears); some have reached liberated adult status (shortly after emerging from the den following the second winter with their mother and sibs) but then gone on to be shot by hunters, hit by cars, or “humanely removed” (euthanized) after one too many encounters with human spaces. One of them, "610," is still in the area and bearing litters of her own. She was one of <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2013/07/discouraged-but-not-hopeless.html" target="_blank">the three cubs born in 2006.</a></div>
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399 herself is 20 years old, which is up there for a wild grizzly; her first litter (preceding 2006) consisted of one cub, then each subsequent litter was three cubs. This year when there was concern that she might not appear at all, or that she might no longer be fertile, she brought joy to everyone by emerging from the den with one light-colored baby (cub of the year, or COY) that was dubbed "Snowy" because of its pale coloration. </div>
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Each year 399 has had triplets, starting in 2006 I've been fortunate enough to see and photograph them. Sometimes conditions for photography were very poor, but I still documented the sighting. </div>
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This year I saw 399 and Snowy only once, briefly, at many yards distant and got off one shot each of them standing in the sage. </div>
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Exactly five days after these two photos were captured, Snowy was mowed down by a vehicle and killed. The circumstances are not known because the driver did not report the incident as is required. He or she may not have known what it was they hit, especially if the cub ran under the wheels rather than in front of the vehicle.</div>
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Regardless of how it transported, this loss caused great sorrow to me and to 399's thousands of fans world-wide. And was yet another blow to maintaining the fragile population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.</div>
Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-38991561362523691472016-06-29T10:29:00.000-05:002016-06-29T10:34:29.391-05:00Pay Your Share and Be Glad of What You Get<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1OpLFsememc" width="480"></iframe><br />
Listen, and HEAR, everything she says. Then, if you doubt the value
you get in return for paying your taxes, count what would/will disappear
if the government doesn't get the revenue it needs, in addition to the
examples Ms. Warren cites: new and maintained interstate and other
federal highways and bridges; national parks,
national monuments, forests, and historic sites; navigable
waterways; promotion of clean air and water; assurance safe and eff<span class="text_exposed_show">ective
therapeutic drugs and devices; monitoring and controlling of infectious disease
outbreaks; natural disaster relief; enriched preschool
education and provision of school lunches; arbitration of domestic disputes at the
highest level, just to name a few things we all enjoy and/or recognize the
significance of, and what that will mean to you if tax revenues
diminish.</span><br />
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In my direct
experience working with the feds, fraud and abuse are rare and taken
extremely seriously when documented. While it's true that big government
isn't overall as efficient as private enterprise, what private
enterprise could conceivably take over all government functions at
scale? Even if large chunks of government service are outsourced (some
of which have turned out to be disastrous, just refresh your knowledge
of the Veterans Choice program!) those contracts will require a large
infrastructure to manage.<br />
All things considered, just pay your damn taxes and continue to enjoy the best quality of life to be had anywhere on earth.<br />
Thanks, Ms. Warren!</div>
Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-28250680105255048902016-05-27T12:50:00.003-05:002016-05-27T12:56:48.859-05:00Close to HomeWhen last Sunday dawned clear, very tired of rainy day after rainy day
confined in front of my work computer, I threw my cameras in the car, nudged the snoring KLK and Teddy the Cat to tell them I'd be back in a few hours (I'm
an early riser, KLK is not, and Teddy gets back into bed to snooze away the rest of the morning with KLK after breakfast), and headed up Springhill Road, very close to home on the
other side of the interstate and more and more rurally beautiful as it
stretches for miles northward along the base of the Bridger Mountains. There's
almost no traffic and certainly no competition for roadside photography space.
Not far from the bridge over the interstate I spotted a pond full of white
pelicans, managed to find a way around to the backside, parked/walked in
mud, and got unceasingly screamed at by a red tail. The nest was so
far up in an enormous cottonwood, and pretty far back from the road, I never found it, but the red tail's cry is unmistakable (and, alas, routinely dubbed in ad and movie soundtracks depicting <i>eagles</i>), and at one point the bird did take
briefly to the air (in case I needed any further convincing not to
magically rise up and steal its kids) and wheeled to give me a look at
its beautiful tail. I also witnessed the back ends, flags up, of a herd of
white-tail deer, surprised a little muskrat in the stream, got a fleeting glimpse at a male
ring-necked pheasant (introduced from China, but still spectacular
and photogenic, if I can ever find one not running for cover), red
winged blackbirds galore, and those annoyingly squeaky killdeer distracting me from (accidentally, of course) trampling their nestlings. And, no question, my life-time best
pelican photo op!<br />
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The muskrat in his stream, wide from snow melt in the distant mountains<br />
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Farther out is a group of fantastic falling-down ranch buildings, silent, just waiting for me to photograph them. From this angle you can just make out
in the distance how vast the hay fields are:<br />
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And other signs of Montana ranch life as it once was: <br />
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Just beyond the dead ranch is the old but living (as it were) Morgan Cemetery,
what a beautiful spot to rest in eternity; the light had faded at this
point, so what you can't see is the snow-covered line of mountains
beyond the horizon:<br />
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The next unexpected sighting in the sage was these two female pronghorns (aka antelope, though there is no genetic relationship to the old world antelope family). The one on the left, with a peculiar growth on her side, could be seen from other angles to be heavily gravid:<br />
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This is public land, which in Montana means there's hunting in season, so the two wary ladies promptly moved over the rise and out of sight of the threatening camera "eye" making it an extra treat to have seen them even for a few moments.<br />
This female red-winged black bird (which you'd never guess even if very familiar with their mates!) posed for me. I love the
way her wiry little toes mimic the barbs yet that she is
oblivious to the dangerously sharp wire points.<br />
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My last hour on Springhill was spent watching mom and pop workin' this roadside mountain bluebird nest box. By then it had turned windy and chilly, so I was thrilled to be in the "blind" of my car, entirely ignored by the very hardworking and not-so-colorful mom, with a beakful of yummy grubs, and colorful pop, removing a "fecal sac," (in effect, changing diapers): <br />
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Nature is unendingly wonderful and restorative.<br />
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All the details of the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed
rulemaking to delist Yellowstone region grizzly bears are here:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FWS-R6-ES-2016-0042-0001">https://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FWS-R6-ES-2016-0042-0001</a><br />
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Look for the blue<span style="color: white;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5394;">COMMENT NOW</span> </span>button in the upper right
corner, and <b>USE IT</b> before May 10, which I take to mean <b>NO LATER THAN MAY 9.</b>
Last count, pro and con comments were about equal in number. If you oppose
grizzly delisting in the Yellowstone region, don't miss this chance to make your
rationale known. I strongly recommend this means, instead of,
or at least in addition to, signing on-line petitions and sending form letters,
which carry far less impact.</div>
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Delisting grizzly bears is extremely contentious issue, as
there is a strong, vocal contingent, mostly those who live in the area who are
directly impacted by the outcome of the proposal, that favors delisting. While
many are eager to shoot down grizzly bears, for any number of motives, the
lives and livelihoods of others are disturbed by the bears that, for example,
raid their sheds for the food stored in them, or, occasionally, or worse,
habitually, take down a calf or a lamb for an easy meal. Those opposed to
delisting include thousands in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and other impacted
geographies but also around the world. It is also highly politically charged. And
while there were Public Comment forums hosted in Bozeman (north of Yellowstone)
and Cody (west of Yellowstone) there was no hearing in Jackson, Wyoming, where Grand
Teton National Park, with its spectacular grizzly families (including 399 about
whom I’ve often written here) are so prominent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Additionally, since the fate of grizzly bears either way has enormous
impact on these national parks and the vast acres of national forest
surrounding them, together comprising the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, it’s
stunning to contemplate that Fish and Wildlife has consulted or coordinated the delisting plan with either agency. Nor were the numerous
Indian tribes for whom the grizzly is of great spiritual importance involved in
the plan.</div>
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Those who read this blog regularly already know where I stand.</div>
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Below is the essay-comment I submitted (using the blue button) to the US Fish and
Wildlife Service on April 26. Out of a lot of possible arguments I chose a tack
that's a little different from most others (but that's the way I am, you knew
that). In retrospect I wish I'd put the punch line – that the high cost of
undoing the deleterious effects of delisting, which I contend will be necessary,
needs to be taken into account –at the top as well as at the bottom, since it's
the only part that is germane to public policy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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I strongly oppose removal of grizzly bears in the
Yellowstone region from the protections of the Endangered Species Act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Europeans’ earliest accounts, grizzlies
have been touted as preternaturally robust, nearly indestructible creatures;
even retiring US Fish and Wildlife Service bear coordinator Chris Servheen
describes them as “…a tough, resilient animal” but, importantly, adds, “that
can thrive if given a fair chance.”
(mtpr.org/post/usfws-grizzly-bear-recovery-coordinator-retires#stream/0)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a long-time observer of bears and their
circumstances in the Yellowstone region (where I live), I can vouch that the
operative phrase is “if given a fair chance,” and that delisting will certainly
deny them this key survival factor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While numbers may have arrived at the point where statistical analysis
predicts self-sustaining population levels, in reality, without protection,
they will not have that chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As their
habitat is squeezed and fragmented by human activity and increasingly degraded
by climate change at the same time their reproductive success is further
compromised by hunting, they will reveal how utterly fragile, vulnerable, and
short-lived they in fact are. Climate change is not in our short-term control;
protecting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grizzly bears by maintaining
their endangered status (and other means such as public education in bear
safety and the use of bear dogs to guard livestock) is.</div>
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A good grizzly population in the Yellowstone region improves
the human condition. Watching bears as they go about their lives is precious
opportunity for people of every ilk to be taught lessons of exceptional value.
Unlike on TV, personally witnessing a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>bear (or wolf, or peregrine falcon, or bob cat) hunting and consuming
prey ingrains an understanding and acceptance of the circle of life, which in turn
informs the *meaning<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of life* for
thoughtful people; in fact I would venture that such experiences are among
those that make<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people thoughtful. From
the drama of a grizzly sow taking a newborn elk to feed her cubs comes deeper
intellectual and emotional appreciation of the principle that life requires
death, but death begets life. Is this a no-brainer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A friend who taught middle school in inner
city Baltimore tells me that her students were genuinely surprised to learn
that their favorite hamburger lunch necessitated the death of a cow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would that all of these kids could spend a
week or two in Yellowstone!</div>
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One might respond that hunting, which will be allowed if the
bear is delisted, teaches the same things. And I would agree, except when
hunting is not motivated by, and does not culminate in, the acquisition of
food. Grizzly bears are not hunted for their meat; that of elk and deer is more
palatable to most people and considerably less difficult to acquire. Instead
the big bears are taken as trophies to be taxidermied into a reminder of the
“lesson“ that if a living thing is extraordinary,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beautiful, rare, dangerous and powerful, the
way to enjoy it is to take its life away, incidentally also preventing everyone
else from appreciating that thing in constructive ways. This ethic is not
nearly as good for regional<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>economies as
is the presence of (in this area) millions of tourists, photographers,
scientists, teachers and students, merchants, and the many others who relish
being in the presence of these extraordinary, living beings and the other
awe-inspiring and instructive features of Yellowstone and the Tetons of which
bears are an integral part. </div>
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Given the environmental and human-related factors working
against them, delisting grizzly bears will likely result in rapid<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>declines of this highly humanistically and
economically valuable resource. Additionally, as has been amply documented,
ecosystems change when populations of predators such as grizzlies are reduced
or removed, generating cascades of unintended, unwanted, consequences. When the
polity ultimately recognizes this, how many public and private dollars will be
required to undo the damage, if it is still even possible to do so, in the
future? </div>
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Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-53448197275679658452016-03-13T13:55:00.002-05:002016-03-14T15:59:31.236-05:00Disappointed<br />
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<span data-offset-key="aksia-0-0"><span data-text="true">Robert Redford is an admirable man and in many cases we share a love for the same really good stories, among the most notable, <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2008/09/in-memoriam.html" target="_blank">Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It</a>. After being approached by several film makers Norman finally signed rights to cinematize ARRTI to Redford. The result, for me, was a mixed, certainly not a total, success. Norman did not live to see it on screen, so we will never know what he would have thought.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4bser-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the movie ARRTI Redford was the author's voice, unseen. Even though I knew Norman, and his voice (in the literal as well as literary senses) very well, it wasn't the voiceover that bothered me but rather the over-simplification of character (all of them) throughout the movie. Since it was directed and produced by Redford I have to assume that was because of the decisions he made, based on his understanding of the people Norman wrote about. Redford and I did not share that understanding. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3qvtm-0-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bill-Bryson/e/B000APXTVM/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1457894816&sr=1-2-ent" target="_blank">Bill Bryson</a> is another favorite author, albeit of a very different ilk, and his 1998 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/31/reviews/980531.31garner.html" target="_blank">A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail</a> is among his outstanding books I can best relate to. Last night we watched the movie, with Redford playing Bryson. Note that while Redford didn't direct the movie (Ken Kwapis did), he was the producer. Which resulted in woefully miscasting himself, most glaringly because Bryson was in his mid-40s when he walked the Appalachian Trail; at least Redford doesn't pretend (except for the hair dye) to be anything other than the nearly 80 year old that he is. This out-of-time re-imagining of people in Bryson's story substantially alters it, and the movie should have at least acknowledged what it would have meant to do a harrowing, 2,000 mile hike as an out-of-shape octogenarian, as Bryson did so entertainingly as an out-of-shape middle-ager. And once again actor Redford goes so far overboard to avoid any hint of emotion (fear, longing, joy, fulfillment, love, frustration, to name a few apt possibilities), when the film adventure was over I was left wondering what, if anything, the Bryson character got out of the experience. Nary a blister, apparently.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1cmqm-0-0"><span data-text="true">Mr. Redford, it's true what they say, discretion is the better part of valor. To get the best result from your investments, next time step aside and let a better actor play the part, and relinquish control to a better director.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1cmqm-0-0"><span data-text="true">One final note: Hollywood has again availed itself of the opportunity to mis-characterize wildlife, the only representatives of which in the entire film (except for one unremarked hawk flying past a hotel lobby window behind the hikers) were two black bears that stood and "growled," like only trained bears with dubbed soundtracks do, when Bryson and his hiking companion emerge from their tents to witness the animals making off with a bag of food. This is an almost dangerous understatement of the true hazards of cavalier human behavior in the wild. </span></span></div>
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Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-42183976906935666282015-08-15T14:18:00.001-05:002015-08-15T15:18:58.458-05:00Life, Death, Yellowstone<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Very
much on my mind is the still-unfolding August 7 incident in Yellowstone
National Park <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in which a park
contractor, Lance Crosby, moving through bear country apparently observing none
of the standard precautions, was caught, killed, partly consumed, and his
remains cached by a well-known, well-loved female grizzly bear known affectionately
as “Blaze.” The moniker refers to a distinctive streak of light-colored of fur from
spine to belly just behind her front legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After
Crosby’s mutilated body was found, Blaze and her two cubs, still in the
vicinity, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were quickly culvert-trapped,
and through DNA and other tests, confirmed unequivocally as having been the
only bears at the scene of his demise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With this incontrovertible evidence, Blaze was promptly "humanely
removed," i.e., euthanized, per park policy. She will be necropsied, which
will include meticulous analysis of the contents of her digestive system, and a
detailed forensic report will be made public, when all that can be learned from
her body has been.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Her still-young
cubs are spending the rest of their lives at the Toledo Zoo. Deprived of a
normal life at large in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, with all its
attendant hazards and risks to long life and reproductive success, they will instead
learn that humans are beneficent sources of a plentiful year-round diet (and
they won’t undergo the annual metabolic stress of wintering), and they will be sheltered
from predators, medicated as needed, mentally and physically stimulated, and contribute,
however unknowingly, to the evolving science of captive wildlife husbandry. And
above all, if the zoo does it right, they will serve to educate the public
about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ursus arctos horribilis, </i>which
recent events amply demonstrate should be a very high priority. Many people
have expressed disgust for this solution, but while rehabilitation to the wild –
that in this case would mean raising them in captivity and guiding them the
best humans can in the art of “being bear” until they are sufficiently mature
to be released in early summer 2017 -- was considered, apparently no capable facility
has room for them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There has
been enormous angry outcry about the park’s actions, as Blaze was one of those
wild animals that had, over her 20 years, become habituated to the presence of
human beings. She was observed and photographed by many, including people I
know personally, and was an exceptionally beautiful and charming bear, no
question. Every few years she bore a litter of adorable cubs, and demonstrated
her prowess as a mother by the high survival rate of her fragile babies. People
formed very strong emotional attachments to her as she allowed them insights
into her wild life. Whether those insights were always correctly interpreted by
those who loved and admired her is something worth questioning, but regardless,
a large and vocal contingent believe that she should have been allowed to live.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I do
not, but not because I haven’t formed my own attachments to similar bears, like
399 in Grand Teton National Park, but because in reality, other options for a
preventing a 20 year old wild bear from repeating this behavior were non-existent.
Relocating her with her cubs to an environment far from human habitation – say,
the North Woods of Canada – would have been the second best ideal to leaving
them free in Yellowstone, but bears are notorious for making their way back to
their home territory even from a thousand miles distant. What’s more, inadvertent
release in territory already claimed by other grizzlies would have resulted in
their deaths. Confining her in a zoo or sanctuary would have been a cruel prison
sentence indeed, and possibly extraordinarily risky for those charged with her
care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
rationale (among some if not many) for destroying a bear that has fed on a
person because it develops a “taste” for human flesh, can never be documented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what IS undoubtedly the case is that by
attacking this person – whether it was a predatory attack or defensive response
to a perceived threat to her cubs – Blaze learned something that she could not
have known previously: hunting humans is safe and easy. Humans can’t flee and so
don’t require fat-depleting bursts of energy, and they are weak fighters that
can be subdued almost instantly without negative consequence (at least in a national
park, where people don’t pack anything more deadly that bear spray, and Crosby
wasn’t even carrying that). And humans, including the plenitude of vulnerable
ones unprepared and off-trail as Crosby was, are everywhere in her territory. While
probably not as full of protein and fat compared, say, to the carcass of a bulk
elk or bison, an adult human could provide enough food for Blaze and two cubs
to sustain more than one nutritionally valuable feeding. In other words, the
payoff for a very low-risk, very small investment of energy, is large. This is
the only calculation a wild bear makes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<![endif]-->Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-6502765396611705732015-04-12T10:51:00.004-05:002015-04-12T12:38:41.971-05:00Montana Spring: WildflowersSuddenly around the whole neighborhood - in fact, all over town - are the indubitable signs of spring: the ground is no longer frozen (though most mornings there are signs on surfaces, like lawns and roofs, that the temperature dipped below 32° Fahrenheit before dawn), the days are definitely longer, the sun more intense. Trees have buds, and most lawns (except ours, see photo below, but that's another story) are greening up nicely! And best of all, wildflowers are popping up everywhere! <br />
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So how about these wildflowers? Here's a shot of our side yard, sprouting yellow, red, and orange:<br />
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In the front of the house we found this single big blue bloom:<br />
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Here's a nice natural bouquet arrangement of <i>Stay greenia</i> I found in a park while on my post-workday constitutional last week:<br />
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They're so colorful, and almost ubiquitous, at least in our development in which there is a great deal of construction and public land improvement underway (these early bloomers tend to thrive in disturbed soil), and everywhere else around town where there is excavation for, say, the burial of utilities:</div>
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I liked them so much that I was willing to deprive my neighbors the sight of these lovely signs of spring, and plucked those in our own yard (once the cable company had finished burying our fiber optic cable, which they could not do last fall when we signed up for service because the ground was already hard-frozen; the cable spent the winter successfully on top of the ground, but grass-mowing season is almost upon us), and put them in a vase where we can enjoy them night and day. Aren't they charming and cheerful!<br />
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The the red, yellow and orange ones especially nicely set off the sole blue one (scientific name <i>Bozemania water departmentia</i>).Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-70486769363573608362015-04-04T18:39:00.002-05:002015-04-09T23:15:59.812-05:00Teddy's brush with...Last fall we launched a long-anticipated move from a safe, small but well-appointed high-rise condo in Chicago to a new two-story house in Bozeman, Montana. It's taking us a while to settle in (i.e., to get it "well appointed"), like the book cases that should be delivered very soon so my tomes can finally be unboxed, displayed and accessed...in other words, we're getting there...<br />
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Relocation has been the experience of a lifetime for our cat Teddy too. While he thoroughly enjoyed the play opportunities the packing materials provided back in Chicago, like most house cats, he's at heart a homebody, content in his element, with no particular urge for adventure beyond the front door. The cross-country drive required long days and three overnight stays along I-90 (a remarkably straight shot from the suburbs of Chicago to the exit to our Bozeman house). All of those days Teddy was confined to his carrier next to me in the car (with KLK following in the U-Haul truck). After about 15 initial minutes of registering his unhappiness each morning, Teddy would lapse into a cat snooze, with only occasional pleading looks and sad little cat comments through bars before repositioning himself for the next long nap.<br />
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At last we opened that carrier door one final time, and Teddy began the adjustment to his comparatively vast new home, with its big windows and cat-width sills from which to watch the magpies and robins, and more rooms than he'd ever seen before to be thoroughly evaluated for cat suitability. Of course, it took him no time to remember where his litter box was and where to expect his meals to be served, and every night we were there for him to join us in warm, safe sleep as we had always had been. <br />
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But what was most interesting was watching him figure out exactly how the two-story design, which he'd never encountered before, worked. The living room is double-high with a balcony overlook from the second floor. We would call to Teddy from the balcony and he would gaze up, puzzled as to what we were doing 15 feet above him -- likewise, when we were on the first floor he would poke his head between the rails, considering how this new geographic arrangement actually worked. Suddenly, after a couple of days, the light went on: he figured out that if he ran up or down the stairs he could be on the level with us again. <br />
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He enjoyed the balcony in other ways as well. Domestic cats have never really lost their arboreal habits, and Teddy found the railing to be a more fun route to transit the landing than the floor. This concerned us, but we knew there was no way short of stringing barbed wire along the top to prevent him from his tightrope fun.<br />
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Then, two days before Christmas, with me busy in my second floor study and KLK likewise in his, it happened. All I knew was the sudden loud thud could have been caused by nothing other than Teddy pitching over the railing to the floor below. KLK's peripheral vision caught the fleeting motion of the cat's abrupt disappearance and he shouted "Teddy fell!!" We ran down the stairs that Teddy had so recently mastered and found him to be in one piece at the bottom, but very distressed. He ran behind the couch but allowed us to approach. Thank God, and miraculously, there seemed to be no damage. He was not limping, nothing swelled, no blood oozed, and he admitted no sign of pain, other than to his ego. He eventually made his way to our bed where he tried to recover his dignity, interrupted though he was by one or the other of us asking him, at no greater intervals than 15 minutes throughout that first day, if he was okay. Very concerned, but even more reluctant to add to his psychological trauma by sticking him back into the carrier, we called the vet and she agreed that if his pupils weren't dilating and he was eating (which he was, as always) and doing his thing in the litter box, there was no need to add to his stress by bringing him in. By Christmas the three of us were more or less back to normal. And to our great relief, Teddy has stayed off the railing ever since. <br />
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Flash forward about three months when I happened to get a rare look into his mouth mid-yawn.<br />
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Although a cat's mouth is private territory (at least according to Teddy), I clearly saw that the left front fang was about half the length it used to be (2010 photo). We think this must have happened when he fell, but he never let on that he was suffering. We squeezed him back into the carrier and took him to the lovely Dr. Rosenthal at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/foothillsvet" target="_blank">Foothills Veterinary Clinic.</a> The doc informed us that the canine tooth was broken to the point where the sensitive inner pulp was exposed. The only cure for the doubtless tender fang was extraction. <br />
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This was accomplished yesterday. Teddy was a growling, hissing, dribbling, angry mass of misery when we picked him up post oral surgery. He was still reeling from the effects of anesthesia, including local novocaine that made him drool enormously, and also had on board a long-acting pain medication (how great that we don't have grab his sore upper jaw to shove pain pills down him!) and a long-acting antibiotic (ditto!) with sparkling clean teeth and a stitch or two where the offending tooth used to be.<br />
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Like the garage that gives you the nail that caused your tire to go flat, Foothills presented me with the offending tooth. It's quite remarkable how enormous the root is compared to the pointy part (which albeit should be a longer than the remains of Teddy's). Of course a predator has to have well-anchored canines, which are used for capturing, securing, and tearing apart prey. But given the corresponding hole left behind, it's a wonder Teddy isn't in more distress today, even after a night's sleep and a couple of meals of soft canned food.<br />
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Last night and this morning Teddy's behavior was odd. His pupils were dilated from the drugs still in his blood stream, but he was exceptionally affectionate and interested in being held tight while he purred loudly. Purring sometimes indicates distress but he certainly seemed to want to be warm in our arms. <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2012/03/teddy-is-different-beast.html" target="_blank">He's always been one to flop over flirtatiously when we coo to him</a>, but was doing it nearly constantly as if trying to rub off the smells of the hospital, until just a few hours ago. Now his energy is back, his eyes are normal, dinner went down the hatch in just a few minutes, and if he's in pain, he's not admitting it. He's young and will heal fast. Life will be better without that tender tooth, even if he never admits it was a problem in the first place. Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-37737052652019871032015-02-14T16:19:00.001-06:002015-02-14T16:28:49.873-06:00Happy St. Valetine's Day 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Please accept this red rose from Jake, citizen of Montana Grizzly Encounter, Bozeman, Montana, as a token of his happiness and love of life in celebration of St. Valentine's Day.<br />
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MGE is a wonderful sanctuary for grizzlies that cannot be released to the wild. If you're ever in the mood to be entertained by happy bears out of their behind-the-scenes "dens" for fresh air and exercise, MGE is THE place.<br />
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Jake loves his sister Maggi especially.Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-59162534800921040532015-01-11T15:05:00.001-06:002015-03-17T18:55:32.644-05:00Bozeman recycles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My faith in the value (to the environment, to the economy) of recycling goes back a long, long way. My faith that the material that goes into the recycling bin ends up being recycled has never been strong, and less strong than that, that enough people recycle properly to make much of a difference. In the late 1980s I pushed for the availability of little blue waste-baskets at every desk at the huge academic medical center where I worked. Eventually, everyone did get a blue receptacle for the massive volume of papers we produced, back in the early days when desktop computers were touted as the solution to the over-use of paper, which were also the days when so much went awry with printed materials - such as the times miles of wide, continuous paper jammed on its roll through the dot-matrix printer, requiring a re-run, or two, to produce usable output. However, the blue bins with the universal "recycle" icon were (and still invariably are) distributed in the absence of any education or guidance, so even a sincere user has little idea what materials should be deposited within. The most casual observations will show that half the paper ends up in the regular basket and half the non-recyclable materials used in everyday business (including the user's lunch leavings) end up in the recycling basket. And that's <i>before</i> the housekeeping service picks up the baskets and dumps the contents of both into the same large plastic bag for disposal.<br />
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Years ago in Chicago I also instigated my 75-unit condominium's participation in recycling, but only by proving that the cost of newspaper, glass, steel, and aluminum pick-up would off-set the cost of having it collected as garbage. For many years now I, and most of my neighbors, have dutifully deposited newspapers, cans, and bottles into the large signal-blue bins in the condo's garage. Those bins were picked up by the Hyde Park Resource Center, the original, and at the beginning, the only option in our 'hood; HPRC was run by devotees and there was no doubt the materials ended up where they were supposed to: in new newspapers, airplane bodies, and pickle jars. Eventually, one of the local grocery stores started accepting milk jugs and other plastic. So I do have a small, short history of hauling recycling. I like to think some of those milk jugs I dropped off are now incorporated into the newer boardwalks around Yellowstone's geyser basins. I can only hope it is so.<br />
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When we moved to our house in Montana this fall we deliberated on lots of things including whether to pay the trash pick-up service to take our recycling along with the food debris (not set up yet for mulching) and litter box leavings and materials that cannot be recycled (aka, garbage). We decided instead to start by taking our recycling to one of many locations in Bozeman, most located in out-of-the-way corners of the massive parking lots of retailers such as Home Depot and Target (extra kudos for Target, the only place in town that takes glass) and coincidentally, very close to where we live thus necessitating only the tiniest of diversions from routes we follow anyway. In particular we have been producing truckloads of cardboard between the gradually emptying moving cartons and the containers our many new purchases (oh, how much stuff a new house needs!) arrive in.<br />
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Given this opportunity the two of us have been very vigilant about our "post-consumer waste" as it's termed, much more so than we were in Chicago. KLK in particular is a huge consumer of canned soda, and I like my beer in bottles, but we also go through so many other items and have inspected even berry and tomato cartons for the distinctive icons of recyclable plastic, which, it turns out, are usually there. <br />
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Two big surprises have come from this new lifestyle of ours: 1. We don't live as light as we thought. Every day we are between the two of us capable of generating a mountain of material that would contribute a larger share than we imagined were it going to garbage, and 2. Bozemanians are very dedicated to recycling. Although I've known about and followed life in Bozeman<a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2006/12/my-friends-wendy-chloe-and-becky-are-in.html" target="_blank"> for as many years as I've been hoping to move here</a>, given that this is a politically conservative region, where the cause of climate change
is not universally believed to be attributable to man's profligate
behaviors and people drive pick-ups, not Priuses, I have been extremely pleased to witness how many residents are responsibly splitting the recyclables from their waste and exerting the mental, physical, and fossil-fuel energy to get it to a place where it will be correctly destined. The many large receptacles at each location - these photos show only a few of the bins behind Home Depot - and that they are often filled to capacity when we stop by in spite of being regularly emptied - make me doubly glad we live here among so many kindred spirits. <br />
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Here's a sampling of our daily interior leavings; the bigger cardboard, and plenty of it, is out in the garage waiting to be flattened for Home Depot's waiting bins. <br />
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(All photos taken with my Samsung S5 phone, for convenience and incredible sharpness and ability to excellently expose photos in less-than-optimal lighting conditions.)Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-74616184208924481922015-01-01T12:37:00.001-06:002015-01-01T12:37:36.473-06:00And all of a sudden...it's a new year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-30728358653881108672014-11-28T10:44:00.000-06:002016-02-03T08:55:46.983-06:00It's been a while...This latest hiatus in Amusing Musings is explained by our total relocation from Chicago to Bozeman, Montana last month. But the title of this post, "it's been a while," also refers to one of my earliest Musings, <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2007/02/winter-in-yellowstone-at-last.html" target="_blank">Winter in Yellowstone, at last,</a> in February of 2007, in which I explained my impatient goal to live close to Yellowstone National Park (Bozeman chosen from a number of options for mostly practical reasons, to be shared in a later post). Only seven long years later, picking up one's life and loves and things of more than 45 years and reinstalling them all in a newly built house is disorienting, exhausting, and frighteningly expensive. I'm not big on chaos (and folding one's tent and erecting it again 1,450 miles away is nothing less), but slowly everything is fitting into its new place, and in the last couple of weeks there have been occasional moments to relax and enjoy. Because I am still working for my Chicago employer (from my computer and phone) while the unpacking and organizing and acquisition of new-house-things like a washer and dryer and window covers are going on, the long Thanksgiving weekend is exactly what I needed to regroup mentally. Here are a few images of our new life to share:<br />
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Typical of Montana, we got a big November snow a few days ago. Also typical of Montana, the Polar Vortex that brought us 6 or 7 inches warmed up precipitously, creating this physics-law-breaking cantilevered iceberg glacially sliding off the roof of KLK's "man cave" that I can watch from my computer desk. The pendulous thing was longer than a foot before it started to curve downwards, still gripping the remaining snowpack on the roof through some very strong hydrostatic process. We watched it enlarge and elongate all day Wednesday. At 5 A.M. on Thanksgiving morning it gave way, thunderously thudding on the first floor roof below. <br />
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The warm temperatures and sunlight and peaked rooflines caused many more avalanches and created a thigh-high berm of snow around the sides of the house. KLK took advantage of the relative warmth to remove a little slippery stuff by the front porch. Shoveling snow is his new workout. </div>
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Teddy the tabby took a while to figure out his big new house, but now he's bravely giving me regular heart attacks by tight-roping along the second floor railing...the drop to the living room floor on the far side is about 20 feet. Note beyond our window a Tyvek-wrapped structure. This was green space when we bought it in June, though we understood it would soon be developed. More about the phenomenal number of <strike>mushrooms</strike> housing starts in what was until very recently open agricultural land in a later post. <br />
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Thanksgiving day was so peaceful in our neighborhood (in spite of being a couple of blocks from a middle school, the 'hood is almost always quiet) and the day so unexpectedly mild, we went out to explore on foot. In spite of the huge number of older, and newer, and being-constructed homes, green space has been spared here and there throughout. This park with its still pond and backdrop of the Bridger Mountains, is particularly appealing. Nothing quite like mountain light. Just what I wanted!Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-66317461514530024612014-10-10T18:14:00.002-05:002014-10-10T18:14:36.929-05:00Heard todayOn the car radio while running errands this afternoon:<br />
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WBBM news radio, an ad for an orthopedic practice, rated highly by "U.S. Snooze and World Report."<br />
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WBEZ, Chicago's (usually flawless) public radio station: a reference to Illinois Republican
gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner's "indiscrepancies" - uttered,
alas, by the reporter.Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-2623864123724437422014-09-21T08:18:00.000-05:002017-02-22T15:48:23.583-06:00Objects 3. Cerámicas San Isidro Moorish plates<br />
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In 1963-64 (8th grade for me) my mother spent the year teaching teachers of English in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Madrid, with me in tow</a>. As I've remarked before, one of the things I most enjoyed about <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2010/11/island-in-time-in-chicago.html" target="_blank">that year abroad was the exoticism of the shopping opportunities</a>. In those days, foreign wares were not so readily available in the United States, and, at the age of 13, I found the European traditional and contemporary objects to be wonderfully new and appealing.<br />
In Spain the specialties were strongly regional; a well-known example is Toledo steel, made into jewelry and knives for the consumption of tourists and serious collectors alike. Spain is also known for its<a href="http://www.orceserranohams.com/ceramics-from-spain/" target="_blank"> regional ceramics and pottery styles</a>, sometimes realized as decorative objects, famously lovely tiles, or colorful usable objects such as table ware. <br />
Another of my most valued memories from that year is our visits to the many historic meccas around the country, among the most enjoyable to the town of Granada, site of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra" target="_blank">The Alhambra</a>. S<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors" target="_blank">pain was once a colony of the Muslim world; the North African Arabs and Berbers who occupied much of the Iberian peninsula are referred to as Moors</a>. Moorish culture dominated the Andalusian region from 711 until 1492, and left its aesthetic and cultural marks in many ways. Granada's Alhambra, the massive and stunningly beautiful fortress-palace left by the Moors, is an overwhelming do-not miss should you find yourself in Spain. Although this photo of my mother taken there (doubtless by me, already in those days a camera-toter) is badly faded it is possible still to make out the incredible <a href="http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/alhambra.html" target="_blank">lively and romantic architecture and decorative style</a>. Many of the fine details are in fact the written word from the Koran. It's truly extraordinary<br />
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Modern takes on this decorative and symbolic tradition are used in the locally produced ceramic wares, known as the "Andalusian" style. On that visit we bought a set of eight plates of varying designs made by Granada's Cerámicas San Isidro that take great advantage of the local symbology. <a href="http://thelecrinvalley.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/all-hail-the-pomegranate-official-symbol-of-granada/" target="_blank">Granada means pomegranate, </a>and the fruit's image is everywhere, as in the middle of this San Isidro plate.What
is most interesting about this design (and the starred plate above) is
that the star is six-sided, like the Jewish Star of David. The Muslim
star is five-sided. Intentional or not, I'll never know. <br />
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It's hard to photograph pleasingly embossed texture of these 8.5-inch plates, but the designs come through well.<br />
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And here are the plates in a celebratory <i>bon voyage</i> slumber party for my classmates heading out for a school-sponsored trek to England, June, 1967.</div>
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I don't use them to serve food anymore -- who knows how much lead is in the glaze? But they're quite nice arrayed in a small group on my living room wall, and allow me to reminisce about that wonderful long-ago year in Spain.<br />
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<br />Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-24448105957682408182014-09-12T19:42:00.002-05:002014-11-03T09:59:20.269-06:00Objects 2. Pueblo (American Indian) PotteryLots of us have lots of stuff in our lives, but it's not often that we have a record of how, where and when it was acquired. My family spent the 1953-1954 academic year in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where we widely explored especially the Indian lands of the region, thereby making some important discoveries and <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2011/05/im-so-glad-you-didnt-knock-love-story.html" target="_blank">lifelong connections</a>. We were (and I am) great admirers of the arts and artisanship of the Pueblo and Navajo peoples. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, their wares had become know nationally, if not internationally, through the enterprises such as Fred Harvey, boosted by <a href="http://in the late 19th and early 20th centuries" target="_blank">the work of architect Mary Colter</a>, among others. Even so, in the middle of the 20th century, their rugs, masks, wood and stone carvings, stunning jewelry, and pottery were still affordable for a young professor's family. <br />
<a href="http://www.puebloofacoma.org/" target="_blank">Acoma Pueblo, called as "Sky City"</a> for its strategic mesa-top location, is renowned now as then for its beautiful and finely made pottery. It's some 70 miles west of Albuquerque, right along Route 66 (now Interstate 40), the perfect day-trip from Albuquerque. Here is my mother in Sky City (with me, in the striped t-shirt) picking treasurers from their maker in November (it was very nice and warm, evidently!): <br />
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Same day, two Acoma girls, Anne Marie and Tilda Rose, pose with their offerings; note the classic humped adobe brick oven in the background to the right, and the adobe homes, with ladders to access the useful space on the flat roofs. <br />
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What Mother brought home included one small dish that was meant as an ashtray, that crashed to pieces, under my watch alas, quite a few years ago. Another prize was this small "eared" pot painted with a different abstract, but historically faithful, bird motif on each side. Its hand-coiled, wood-fired character is evident.<br />
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While rustically very appealing, it was comparatively primitively made, with thick walls and base. Which is almost certainly how it's managed to survive unvanquished all these years.<br />
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Another acquisition of the day, and of the same scale but a different, though also traditional, decoration, was much more delicately shaped and painted. The form is called "olla" (pot, in Spanish):<br />
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Through time though, it paid the price for its fineness. With the shards stuck firmly together with superglue, it has an (albeit faux) archaeological feel to it. </div>
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In the early 21st Century, spectacularly fine wares are still to be had. The people of many pueblos of the American Southwest, have perfected their ceramic arts. This is a traditional "olla" form, very similar to the "archaeological" piece above, but of a much larger scale and sophisticated painted design. It is signed "R. Victarino, Acoma." It was given to me by Puebloan friends in 2011. <br />
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My friends also gave me this piece. The pot itself was not coiled, but made in a form. The skill is all in the painting. I love it just as much, though I don't know the maker.<br />
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Indian pots, highly collectible for obvious reasons, come in all kinds of sizes, shapes and forms above and beyond the olla. Here is a display in the gift shop of the <a href="http://heard.org/" target="_blank">Heard Museum of American Indian Art and History</a>, Phoenix, Arizona. It would be nice to bring them all home. <br />
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<br />Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-4400171456604063572014-09-07T15:21:00.002-05:002014-09-07T15:34:43.833-05:00Objects 1. Royal Leerdam Serica Vase<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a striking cobalt blue vase in the "Serica" series, designed by Andries Dirk Copier of the Royal Leerdam glassworks in Leerdam, Netherlands. In Dutch this "controlled bubble" technique is called <i><span class="Normal am_LotDetailText" id="dnn_ctr373_AM_LotsBid_lblDescription">spijkervaasje. </span></i><span class="Normal am_LotDetailText" id="dnn_ctr373_AM_LotsBid_lblDescription"><br /></span><br />
I don't know the exact date but this style dates from 1936-1940. The brilliantly prolific Copier lived from 1901 to 1991. <br />
The heavy crystal ball was once the top to a Leerdam decanter. The decanter is long gone but the ball looks very good set atop the vase, especially when gently rotated it multiplies the moving water effect. This was in my grandmother's home, and as a child (and frankly, as an adult) it fascinated me. I have always called it the <i>fountain</i> because of the wonderful regularly placed bubbles. I can't even imagine the skill that went into making this.<br />
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<br />Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-19836508603458959572014-08-15T19:08:00.002-05:002014-08-17T07:59:32.888-05:00The Word IsPeople who assist in the purchase, rental, and sale of residential and commercial properties are not REEL-ah-tors. They are REEL-tors. <i>Realtors</i>. They deal in real estate.<br />
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One type of power used to run our electric grids, and sometimes in ultra-deadly weapons of mass destruction, and based on use of the center part of an atom, is NOO-clee-ahr. It is not NOO-cue-lahr. As in<i> nuclear </i>energy.<br />
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Oh, and it's not hala-PEEN-oh, it's hala-PEN-yo. Jalapeño. It's not too hard to respect the original language naming America's favorite hot peppers.<br />
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Thanks for hearing me out.Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-23443544770589447752014-08-02T15:10:00.000-05:002014-08-02T15:10:58.257-05:00Witnessing Changing TimesOne reason I've been remiss keeping up with Amusing Musings is that I'm in the midst of a big project that involves poring through (<i>most interesting</i>) items that have been stored for at least a twenty years. Like other mothers, mine saved every charming little thing from my earliest years, including nudie photos of me (oh, dear) in my first year, a lock from my first hair cut, and innocently sweet cards congratulating her and my father on my birth. Year 1-to-2 quickly filled and I graduated to another scrapbook full of my childish drawings, my first written "works," pre-school to first grade report cards, birthday cards from <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2014/04/her-dna-is-in-me-mary-christine-cullin.html" target="_blank">my Granny</a>, and what seems like every valentine card exchanged at school. The old cards (and by old, I mean the first half of the 1950's) are wonderfully sweet and charming, so much nicer than most of what one sees today, with silly word-play guaranteed to please. Lovely as they are, I obviously haven't looked through them since they were pasted into the scrapbook, because today the following unaddressed, unsigned, multi-page card caught my eye for the first time in 60-plus years:<br />
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I think it's safe to say the card was not addressed to me, but surely from one parent to the other. From him to her or her to him, I can't now imagine (they divorced about 20 years later). Now, granted, my parents were pretty enlightened and calm about sex and sexuality in that time and place of social conservatism about such things. However, I'm at a complete loss as to why my mother (my father wasn't responsible for memorabilia-management, it would not have been in character) thought this would be cute to save for their little daughter's posterity. I like to think it was my mother's sense of humor, and that she had an inkling I would someday finally take notice, and most of all, get a really good laugh out of it. Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-62161495639571314342014-07-13T15:02:00.001-05:002014-07-14T12:37:54.351-05:00"Translated" by Bing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I posted to Facebook and shared with the Hungarian side of my family the above photo (yes, I admit, I use Facebook, it's a fine tool for keeping track of the relatives who use it) and my cousin in turn shared it with others, adding her own commentary in Hungarian. Upon request, Facebook will translate a post that is not in English (or whatever the original language of a post happens to be). Click on the image to reveal the fine translation from Hungarian to <u><b>?</b></u> that Bing did!<br />
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Bing is a Google search engine. It should just stick to searches.Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-84735422250671682932014-07-04T12:24:00.003-05:002014-07-04T12:29:51.883-05:00The Bears Playground<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(crowned by a mad dash over the last 200 yards, caught in one of those
only-in-Yellowstone soaking "snhail-storms" that come out of nowhere
followed by blue skies within minutes, like it never happened), made our stop
at Old Faithful village for a tall icy drink, then were on our way south
seeking a dinner venue. Before long we crossed the bridge over the Firehole
River to behold (drum roll) another bear jam! This was the area about which <a href="http://www.yellowstonetreasures.com/" target="_blank">Janet Chapple,
author of the A+ guide, Yellowstone Treasures,</a> says, "Prior to
1970, the area near the pond south of the bridge was the site of a bear feeding
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All bears do not look alike, even to the unpracticed eye. Note the difference in this cub's facial profile compared to <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguXN501v4ez9PGJzP0H_eLxGPr7LlNvgAIkuZdOt0ifVuLMWHuCpLRoHWyY0eP956S9FE5hvBfsgCsetELEcyF738wZ9XmcsMb9K8PgW8hnOskLver5n9Y6Gp0zEJJr1lXmXSuw4E7uZAm/s1600/Grizzly399&2cubs_DSC5815.jpg" target="_blank">399's one-year olds</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguXN501v4ez9PGJzP0H_eLxGPr7LlNvgAIkuZdOt0ifVuLMWHuCpLRoHWyY0eP956S9FE5hvBfsgCsetELEcyF738wZ9XmcsMb9K8PgW8hnOskLver5n9Y6Gp0zEJJr1lXmXSuw4E7uZAm/s1600/Grizzly399&2cubs_DSC5815.jpg" target="_blank"> </a>(who look more like each other than
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I and many others have observed that some wild parents seem to have dangerous lack of
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rivers -- several of us on different occasions have witnessed moose mothers
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Once last glance between us. Is there anything as sweet as a freshly washed grizzly
cub? Then it was up and over into the
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Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-77832892885458484482014-06-22T08:44:00.002-05:002014-06-22T18:08:59.688-05:00Grizzly 399 Shares Her 2014 SecretsThree weeks ago we returned from ten marvelous, as always, days in our favorite part of the world, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. 2014's marvels included hikes to fascinating locales new to us plus a few favorite places we haven't checked on in a while, our first (at long last) river otter sighting, catching up with beloved friends, and a photo ops galore. Premier among the wildlife-sightings was our favorite grizzly bear 399, known to her fans as Queen, or Lady, of the Tetons. She is the exceptionally fecund bear that likes to bring up her young broods near the roads in the 5-1/2 mile region spanning two visitor areas, Colter Bay and Jackson Lake. Last year we relished <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2013/07/discouraged-but-not-hopeless.html" target="_blank">watching her three new triplets play</a> along a side-road just far enough away to be considered safe. Indeed, 399 was wholly focused on eating grasses, roots, flowers, insects and worms while the kids alternately nibbled and grubbed and cavorted, all ignoring their thrilled paparazzi. <br />
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We got up early on our third morning to go look for wildlife, which is really just code for "look for bears." Only a mile or two down the main road we could see the indubitable sign of wildlife activity ahead: many dozens of cars parked along both the shoulders and people all running in the same direction, more or less loaded down with camera gear. Who should be eating and playing along the south side of the road but our most familiar and favorite grizzly, 399 and two year-old cubs. This how we learned that one of the three had not survived the winter. Big fierce muscular grizzlies, especially young ones, it turns out, are in fact very fragile and at high risk for death before they are sufficiently mature to reproduce. It's not known what happened to the third cub, though there is speculation that before the bears even denned for the winter it was separated from its mother. In their first and second years, grizzly cubs cannot survive alone, especially as winter approaches. Although they can feed themselves plant and insect material and eat from carcases (and, alas, human food supplies and garbage, though this no longer happens in Yellowstone/Tetons) they come across, they still need their mother to hunt meat for them and occasionally, to nurse them. In this photo, one of 399's axillary mammaries is clearly visible behind her left foreleg. Note her nice grizzly-style claws, too. <br />
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Here she is with one of her year-old cubs, for size comparison. This nose-down posture is how we see bears most of the time as they eat-eat-eat all summer to assure reserves to make it through another winter.<br />
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399 was huffing (inaudibly to us, but we could see it in her expression and movements) at the second cub, about 50 feet behind this beautiful mirror of a snow-melt puddle,
to "come along now!" The other cub was quite busy overturning rocks and pieces of wood
to find tasty ants and worms. To me it seems unlikely that such large animals can satisfy a big portion of their caloric needs by eating plants and small invertebrates, but they do. <br />
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Adding to the romance of watching these bears is the stunning scenic backdrop of the Grand Teton mountain range. Her characteristic shoulder hump is very evident in this shot.<br />
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The rangers, like this guy in the Smokey the Bear hat and reflective vest, work very hard all summer to protect not only park visitors but these habituated bears that really are not skittish enough around people. I call this photo "Baby Bear Mayhem" as one of the cubs makes its way across the road and stops to look at the paparazzi. All traffic is stopped of course. The folks on the left side of that tour bus got a great look at the cub. Note the license plate on the big black SUV! Many people come to the park purely to watch and photograph bears.<br />
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The cubs made it across safely but one continued to evidence curiosity about its watchers. Frankly, it would be much better if it were shyer.<br />
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Finally Mother Bear 399 found herself reacting to the passing of an over-sized camper.<br />
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But then everyone went back to priority bear business, namely, cashing in on the nutritious green grasses and flowers before they naturally dry out as the season goes on. <br />
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This was without a doubt the most rewarding time spent with 399 and her many cubs <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2007/04/theyre-alive.html" target="_blank">since I first spotted them in 2006</a>. This year we were lucky to see the family twice more before we left the park, though never as clearly nor for such a prolonged and fruitful bear-watching session. The rangers were certainly harried, and many park visitors contentious about not being allowed to just stop and get out of their cars, especially along a crowded intersection later in the day such that there was a great deal more traffic to contend with. It concerns me that the bears are utterly nonchalant about traffic, and so many people are either oblivious to their need for distance or alternately, not interested in seeing the bears and aggressively trying to get past the "mayhem," both set-ups for bear and/or people disasters.Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-64879593490643138292014-05-18T08:56:00.004-05:002015-08-22T20:26:54.843-05:00Pine trees: My trees, the test says so!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>These beautiful conifer images are by <a href="http://www.andiethrams.com/" target="_blank">Andie Thrams</a>, and she holds the copyright.</i></span> </div>
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Sometime in my "formative" years -- probably my teens -- I was given a "test" in which I was to pick a tree shape. As I
recall, the choices were small black silhouettes against a white ground -- and
the choice keyed to a personality classification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it was one of those
school-administered evaluations, for what rational purpose I can't imagine.
Google queries don't yield that particular panel of images as they live in
my memory -- a spreading oak, an upright laurel, a droopy willow, something
bearing round fruits, a leafless winter skeleton...and an unmistakable <i>pine</i>. But as this was a school-administered test I had to take it seriously -- in the 1960s, who knew what the forever consequence of such a thing might be! In any case, I love
trees, so I contemplated the virtues of the disparate shapes, carefully analyzing the symbolism of each before recording my answer. The bare winter
version was immediately eliminated. But how nice to sit in the shade of that leafy, wide-spread oak, people who like to do that probably rank highest in personality. On the other hand, those
fruits might be fun to eat, would selecting the apple tree forever mark me gluttonous? Are those coconuts on the palm tree?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a little like this:<br />
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<i>Oh dear, which one is the right one?</i> Then my eye landed on the Christmas
tree outline of the pine. I knew instantly that it represented me, unequivocally, and totally. Pines provide
shade,
they're green all year, they grow everywhere in mountains, deserts, rainforests, even in
the high tundra where
their shallow roots maneuver around the permafrost. They feed humans and animals alike, provide ship's masts and tepee poles and myriad other sheltering materials. They are symbols of extreme longevity, and come in every size and shape possible. But above all, they smell
wonderful: even sitting at my computer in Chicago I can call up
the fragrance of dry needles baking in sweet mountain sunshine, their scent released by my very steps as the birds sing alarms at my presence. They are splendidly
ubiquitous in my favorite places like Yellowstone and Grand Teton
National Parks, where lodgepole pines are most common, but Engelmann
spruce (with cones, below), Douglas fir (with bear, below), junipers and others are also
to be found. I don't know what my selection told the school psychologist
about me, but twenty-first century, completely <a href="http://www.springboardtalent.com/research-and-tools/" target="_blank">non-scientific versions of the test</a>,
newspaper horoscope-like, that supposedly fit cartoony color images to
personality characteristics no longer include a pine image. What a mistake to drop this highest order, most complex of trees from the options!</div>
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Thram's images, above, are 3-7/8 x 9-1/4 inch note cards I bought years ago and liked too much
to let go for their intended purpose. Some day I may even frame them.<br />
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According to the (abbreviated)
descriptions on the card backs, they are:<br />
<ul>
<li>Mountain Hemlock, <i>Tsuga mertensiana</i>:
This most graceful evergreen dwells in the snowiest, misty mountain
forests of the west. ...Mountain hemlocks grow to 150 feet with
diameters to four feet and ages of more than 500 years.... </li>
<li>Dougals Fir, <i>Pseudotsuga menziesii: </i>The Douglas-fir is found
throughout much of western North America... But, it is in the ancient
rainforests of the Pacific northwest that Douglas-fir has grown as tall
as 300 feet...</li>
<li> Incense Cedar, <i>Calocedrus decurrens:</i> Incense-cedar is among the west's most common trees, growing at lower elevations in the mountains of California... It can grow to be 500 years old with diameters of up to six feet....</li>
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“Cody High Style” Molesworth-type pine-bough motif
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Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Veronica Waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16367665889716556106noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996986121279323996.post-6256988256902167322014-04-27T17:54:00.001-05:002014-04-28T21:34:34.913-05:00Her DNA is in me: Mary Christine Cullin Lawton<div style="text-align: left;">
My grandparents hearkened from an era in which the paterfamilias was not only the bread-winner, but also lent the family its identity. This is not to say there weren't extraordinary women born in the late 19th century who became famous -- or notorious, for that matter -- in the context of family lives. But it is to say that among ordinary people, posterity was the business of men. Thus in my many efforts to reconstruct the stories of my progenitors, learning and writing about my maternal grandfather, <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/charlie.html" target="_blank">Charles Edwin Lawton</a>, has been and continues to be, well rewarded through the use of on-line tools like Ancestry.com and Google searches (I just found a new tidbit today!), plus a little key input from the quickly diminishing list of survivors who knew them. But I have postponed writing about my grandmothers in large part because of a dearth of information, first or second hand, about either of them. </div>
My maternal grandmother, the only grandparent that ever saw me, would likely have been better known to people as Mrs. Charles Lawton than as Mary, or Mamie as the family called her, but searches on any version of her too-common names turn up vast numbers of hits, almost none relevant. So the time has come to share what is likely all I, or anyone now living, will know about her from this day forward. Also recorded here are my speculations on her motivations and emotional, monetary, and physical resources.<br />
My mother took me to visit her for a week once a year, not less and not more, until I reached junior high, at which point I was excused of the annuality of this duty and had to go along only every few years. Mother always drove from Bloomington, Indiana, through Ohio, and across the long state of Pennsylvania to Chester, now a dogeared suburb of Philadelphia. My father the professor, who had little use for extended families anyway, and particularly not for my grandmother who had little education and with whom he had nothing in common other than her daughter who was his wife, never accompanied us. Truth be told, I also did not find my Granny, as she was known to me, a very stimulating conversationalist, or a nurturing grandparent for that matter. In retrospect she was likely a little mystified by me, uncertain of what to make of this smarty-pants little kid with the unfriendly father, and with whom she had no opportunity to be close. It's also possible my mother, or my father, didn't make it easy or encourage her to form a real relationship with me. I believe from my observations and things my mother has told me that her relationship with her mother was one of love-hate, and feelings of obligation and duty not driven by a deep connection between them. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLAWmnwX3RnVyWKfAcRHc5p2qZAU-97DeOlr4jLMx6wF_jjYzHjwuRV3esDXJMtEmK3v-LFz1-Oe1wQz927AKXgpbKf00aF0x4NH_G3WBb485nrIwb3K0-iZBPQMku7ytt4MztOYcA87rd/s1600/CullinSisters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLAWmnwX3RnVyWKfAcRHc5p2qZAU-97DeOlr4jLMx6wF_jjYzHjwuRV3esDXJMtEmK3v-LFz1-Oe1wQz927AKXgpbKf00aF0x4NH_G3WBb485nrIwb3K0-iZBPQMku7ytt4MztOYcA87rd/s1600/CullinSisters.jpg" height="400" width="243" /></a>Mary Cullin was born to the Irish immigrants John and Anna E. Giltinan Cullin on November 16, 1881, and baptized in St. Michael's Catholic Church, Chester, Pennsylvania, 11 days later. Mary was one of four daughters in this undated studio-beach portrait. Clockwise from Mary are her sisters Elizabeth (standing rear), Anne, and Catharine (or Catherine, I've seen it both ways). Looks like the girls were lovely, wasp-waisted teens at the time. <br />
Her upbringing was doubtless conservative, and in the 1900 Census, at the age of 19, she was listed
as living with her sisters and father in Chester, with no occupation
shown. I don't know how she met my grandfather, Charles E. Lawton, or exactly when they married, but it was a slightly unlikely match, as Granny's family were Irish Catholic, and Charlie's Episcopalian. Her marital life was unlikely in other ways as well. In 1909, the American Colonial Bank posted Charlie to Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to serve as cashier (a more elevated position than how one thinks of cashiers today). By 1910, Granny is listed in the U.S. Census in Arecibo with my grandfather. I've remarked before what an enormous leap of faith and courage that must have been for her to leave her natal home to go to a foreign country 1,600 miles away by steamship, where there were few English-speakers, strange food, tropical climate (pleasantly warm winters and springs, followed by hurricane seasons stretching through long hot summers and falls), and exotic diseases to contend with. In spite of these odds, the couple thrived there, and by March of 1912, baby girl Mary Eleanor, my mother, had arrived. </div>
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I have gleaned many ships' manifests documenting that the family returned to Chester periodically to visit their families. This photo seems to have been taken there, probably around 1914 or 1915. I would think the photographer was intending to capture the fast-moving, scowling toddler, my mother Eleanor, but the camera instead focused on Mary, my grandmother. This is one of the clearest images of her face among the many blurry and faded photos I have. <br />
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They eventually built a very nice house on Carrion's Court in the neighborhood of Santurce, and accoutred it with lovely furniture, two pieces of which I am lucky to still have. Mary Eleanor and Louise Edwina posed at the entry of that house with dog Rosie about 1922 or so. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBEue89Ie_aoEqfMGf2F8jA3EQt9PxMN6TzW4Fktl2MSNSKXAwxImRSGADw6UYWcYg9DY8YJUv_1x0MQ3DXHOGupGhgqviszCKTVEOvgMFp6jF7h6iNdNuQLtXK-ZPsBUg19-1DLzt8g4/s1600/Eleanor&Louise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBEue89Ie_aoEqfMGf2F8jA3EQt9PxMN6TzW4Fktl2MSNSKXAwxImRSGADw6UYWcYg9DY8YJUv_1x0MQ3DXHOGupGhgqviszCKTVEOvgMFp6jF7h6iNdNuQLtXK-ZPsBUg19-1DLzt8g4/s1600/Eleanor&Louise.jpg" height="320" width="218" /></a>Not very long after this photo was taken, the family suffered the blow
of the loss of a child. Louise contracted what I believe was a
streptococcal infection called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysipelas" target="_blank">erysipelas</a>,
for which there was no effective treatment. My mother told me, trying
to sound matter-of-fact, but with a very slight catch in her throat, that
their mother never got over Louise's death. I do not know the basis for
this belief, and whether or not Louise was Mary's favorite child we'll
never know. But I do know my mother's relationship with her mother was
not unalloyed by the briefness of her sister's time on this earth. <br />
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As my grandparents aged, my grandfather's bank was being transformed by the tides of the times and no longer had work for him, and their sole child, my mother, had become an independent adult, they decided to return to the United States. By 1947 my grandmother was living in Chester again, this time in the home of two of her sisters, the widowed Catharine Glenney, and the spinster schoolteacher Elizabeth, at 17 East 18th Street, which had been the sisters' natal home. Then suddenly, on January 11, 1948, Mary's husband, my grandfather <a href="http://veronicawaldsamusingmusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/charlie.html" target="_blank">Charles Lawton, died</a> in the San Juan hotel he was living in as he wrapped up business in Puerto Rico and prepared to join his wife in the U.S..<br />
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The permanent move and simultaneous death of her husband slammed shut those long, mostly prosperous, doubtless interesting, and fundamentally happy years of my grandmother's life, and marked the beginning of a quiet 25-year widowhood in the house she was born into. <br />
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My earliest memory of my grandmother is cemented by this photo taken by the puddly walkway at 17 East 18th Street, a couple of weeks before my 4th birthday and 6 month's before Mary's 73rd. By then her always slight frame had developed a distinct curve down the back. My mother maintained that she had likely suffered from polio, or the scoliosis may have been caused by osteoporosis. In spite of the fact that it was bad enough that one hip was by this time much higher than the other, I don't recall that she had pain or reduced mobility from it. It's hard to believe that she didn't. The deformity of it scared me. <br />
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It was probably around this time that my grandmother and her sisters unwittingly managed to appall me one morning as I came down the steep stairs at 17 E. 18th Street to say good-morning to the two of them when they exclaimed (with "amazement") that I must be a little boy, dressed in blue jeans as I was. My, how the times have changed, but then I was mortified and ran back up the stairs red-faced that they would make such an awful mistake.<br />
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Four summers later my parents, and me in tow, spent a summer at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (where they had met about 10 years earlier). Mary came to spend much of the summer, maybe to take advantage of the roomy house we rented (our apartment in Bloomington was far too cozy for the comfort of three adults and kid). That was the longest stretch we were ever together, and while I have some other very distinct memories of that summer (oh yes, I had my first horseback riding lessons there) I have no sense at all of what the multi-generational dynamics were like. At the age of 77 my grandmother looked every bit her age, through as far as I know she was essentially still healthy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Cullin Lawton on the porch of our rented house, Ann Arbor Michigan, summer 1958</td></tr>
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In those, and the ensuing years, with us back in Bloomington and her back in Chester, she
continued to try to do the right thing by me. There are birthday cards
in my scrapbooks, and memories of packages arriving full of attractive
but (to me) disappointingly inedible <a href="http://www.oldtimecandy.com/licorice-allsorts.htm" target="_blank">licorice Allsorts</a>. There were certainly also occasional phone calls between visits to Chester, but in all this time, no bond formed between us.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Cullin Lawton (left rear) with her sister Catharine Cullin Glenney, at home at 17 East 18th Street, in the only color photo ever taken of them. Mid- to late 1960's.</td></tr>
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As I became more able to form memories of my experiences and observations, I remember some distinct things about that house and life at 17 East 18th Street, like the incredibly hot summer nights trying to sleep in the little upstairs room where there was a bed for me but no breeze and no fan. I remember a large and beautiful oriental rug on the floor under my grandmother's bed that I later used in my own home until it became threadbare; there were two antique tables my grandmother brought from Puerto Rico, one of which displayed the most lovely and fascinating Leerdam Serica vase that probably Elizabeth, the schoolteacher sister (d. 1963) brought from European travels, which is now in my treasured possession along with the tables. The utterly beautiful vase is pictured at the foot
of every page of this blog. My grandmother had a diamond cocktail ring she promised to give me when I turned 16. Before that could happen, it slipped off the side of the bathroom basin and vanished down the drain. And Great Aunt Catharine promised to sell me her 1940's auto (don't know what kind it was) upon earning my driver's license, but evidently some guy came along and offered her $50 before my birthday so, alas, that never happened either. <br />
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Speaking of money, I have no idea how the ladies survived. Perhaps my grandfather had been foresightful (he was a good money man, after all) and had tucked away something for my grandmother; maybe the ladies' husbands had had life insurance (was there such a thing then?) or pensions (very doubtful, especially in Charlie Lawton's case). Or perhaps the real fate of the ring was a pawn shop, and Catharine could simply not wait for the $50. My mother never made a lot, I doubt she could have helped much. Maybe they suffered, quietly, I will never know.<br />
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In 1969, my otherwise healthy grandmother needed cataract surgery. While under general anesthesia (conventional at the time) she suffered a mild stroke. While Mary was battling her own issues, Catharine had a fatal stroke, and in a matter of a few days, the family's legacy at 17 East 18th Street was at last ended.<br />
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Although her eyes recovered, and she was able to walk with help and talk semi-coherently, my grandmother's memory was wiped out, she became confused and unable to care for herself. Blessedly she never knew that Catharine had died. My mother's only choice was to settle her into a nursing home for her last years.<br />
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On April 29, 1973, while my mother was on sabbatical in Spain and I was attending graduate school in Arizona, the news came that Mary Christine Cullin Lawton had died peacefully at the remarkable age of 92. She was unceremoniously buried next to her beloved Charlie near the other Lawtons of that generation.<br />
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But no headstone had been placed. I don't know why, perhaps my mother assumed their names would be added to the family stone, or very likely, Mother did not have the money to have one carved for her parents. She was also an unsentimental person, perhaps it was not a priority. In any case, shortly after Mother died, her cousin asked if I wanted to rectify the situation. I was more than happy to do so, but to be able to place accurate birth and death dates on the granite, I had to launch my genealogy journey that yielded almost all the information I have about my grandparents' lives before I was born. Gone but definitely not forgotten.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles and Mary Lawton, rest in peace.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">17 East 18th Street, Chester, Pennsylvania<br />
Fall, 2010</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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