STAR LIGHT STAR BRIGHT

photo by AGÊNCIA Brasil Fotografias

Japanese men's Olympic gymnist Kohei Uchimura, is used to all eyes on him.  Favored this Olympics to win all-around but ultimately coming up with 2nd place, did not dim his elite status.  "Some people make it look hard and some people make the hard stuff look easy. . . . that's one of the beautiful things about Uchimura," said fellow competitor Louis Smith, from Great Britian.      story       

Principle in the type:  "Good timber does not grow with ease, The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.  The further the sky, the greater length.  The more the storm, the more the strength.  By sun and cold, by rain and snow,  In trees and men good timbers grow."      Douglas Malloch   Good Timber

FOREST FOR THE TREES

photo by Carla Cometto

The funny side of politics? Oh Please!! It's a nightmare right now!  .... wait a second.  Here's something that might make you chuckle.  Take a load off from the presidential race, and enjoy:




                              




(And below?  A little theory on opposites, and competition.)

Principle in the type:  "Various schools of thought about forest management have been followed through the years . . . a test plot was selected for a practice known as release thinning.  Foresters identified what they felt were potentially the largest and healthiest young trees in the test plot, and then they cut and pruned out the less-promising trees and the competing undergrowth.  The supposition was that by removing much of the competition for water, sunlight, and soil nutrients, the chosen trees would be released to grow and develop in extraordinary ways. . . . After some years it became obvious that just the opposite was occurring.  Once freed from competition, the chosen trees became complacent.  Instead of stretching upward toward the light, they slowed their vertical growth, put out many lower limbs that eventually became useless when the canopy closed, and became fatter.  None of the trees in the test plot compared in size or vitality to the trees that had to compete and overcome opposition in order to survive and thrive."     Marlin K. Jensen    

                                                                  Happy Easter Weekend, Lovies!  I'm a Believer!

MIND OVER MATTER

photo by Ali graney

Every year I'm tempted to buy a Goats in Trees calendar.   I mean but really, right?!   It's da'best.    And so, their little goat minds tell them to go climb a tree.  Our little human minds have done worse!  ( ... and better.)



                                  

Principle in the type:  "All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."      James Lane Allen