Summer Has Arrived
Published on 18 Apr 2006 at 6:47 pm.
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Filed under Blather, Climate.
Summer has arrived early this year. We have had a full week of clear sunny skies and 70 degree weather. Perfect, absolutely perfect.
This weekend I was in New York City. On Easter Sunday, Emily and I walked from 34th Street (Macy’s) up to Central Park. The Central Park Zoo was horribly crowded on this beautiful day as everyone in the city showed up to enjoy the warm sunny weather and the blossoming crab apple trees among others unidentified. We walked past the zoo and eyed the animal sculptures are the Delacorte Musical Clock. We didn’t wait for it to chime, but I did enjoy my favorite sculture of the hippo playing a violin. Emily says that she imagines it to be a fiddle. We then walked up to the Conservatory Water where they sail model sailboats. Sneaking past the Red-Tailed Hawk obervation telescopes we made our way past the Alice in Wonderland sculpture up past Cleopatra’s Needle (or the Obelisk) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It ended up being something like 70 blocks of walking when we finished, but it was such a great day.
I wanted to put up a picture of the blossoms from the New York Times, but I stumbled on this brilliant Easter photo instead…
(Photo Credit: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
from a New York Times article on Peeps. They are pink like Crab Apple Blossoms, and besides, who doesn’t love Peeps? OK, I know a lot of people don’t love them. But I love them, especially when left out to sit until they become stale. Forget soft and chewy; I just want chewy. They are made by a company called Just Born, Inc. and if you are interested in Peep Research, click here. They apparently suffer from an uncontrollable stress response when left alone in microwaves. This response is often fatal. There is clearly much we don’t know about Peeps.
This entry definitely goes into the Blather Category.
But the weather has become truly remarkable. So much so, that David Guggenheim’s new movie called ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, is perhaps arriving just in time…or maybe 6-26 years too late. This movie, which will be released this summer, follows former Vice President Al Gore as he tirelessly works to expose the truth about Global Warming. If you haven’t seen heard about this, you should watch the trailer. If it is as well-written as any one of Al Gore’s speeches (he writes his own…just like they used to in the good old days that many people in this country long for), this movie should be a treat. In fact, check out his latest article in Vanity Fair…
“The Moment of Truth” - by Al Gore, Vanity Fair, April 9, 2006
Why can’t we elect someone like that for president?
Meanwhile, I calculated my Carbon Footprint at:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
I am way above average at 21,900 pounds of carbon a year. Its mostly all the flying I do. I guess I will need to start a corn field and sequester 20,000 pounds of carbon a year to make up for it. Or maybe I can just bury a California Redwood…YEOWCH!!!
Sorry Earth,
Kevin
Kevin Knuth
Albany, NY
PS No Goose this time. 
Anita on 10 May 2006 at 11:31 pm: 1
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