2019.05.27 07:00 - Nullarbor Plain and Other Stories

The Guardian for this meeting was Eden Haiku. The comments are by Eden Haiku.

 

 

Memorial Day, Bank Holiday

 

Eden Haiku: Good morning Listener Master! It's Memorial Day in the US. Not sure if others will show up :)

Eden Haiku: Oh! Agatha might be on a Bank Holiday in England :)

 

—BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: Spent the whole afternoon walking in a nearby forest yesterday.

Agatha Macbeth: Edie xx

Eden Haiku:A very warm welcome to you Agatha!

Agatha Macbeth: Haven't seen you for ages

Eden Haiku: Bank holiday in England?

Agatha Macbeth: Yep

Agatha Macbeth: One of many

Eden Haiku: I know, haven't been attending the reading group lately...

Eden Haiku: How are you doing?

Agatha Macbeth: Are you usually alone at this time then?

Agatha Macbeth: I thought Riddle came

Agatha Macbeth: Or Adams

Eden Haiku: No, usually Riddle and Adams show up. But it's Memorial Day in the US, they must be hiking or doing other exciting things

Agatha Macbeth: Oh

Agatha Macbeth: Not in Canada then?

Eden Haiku: No, not here. We had Patriots Day in Quebec (and Queen Victoria Day elsewhere in Canada) last Monday.

Agatha Macbeth: Right

Agatha Macbeth: What is it then, some sort of war veterans day?

Eden Haiku: Walked in a nearby forest yesterday afternoon, it felt so good!

Agatha Macbeth: Lovely

Eden Haiku: Yes, Memorial Day is about remembering people who died serving their country, soldiers mostly.

Agatha Macbeth: Ah, we have that in November

Eden Haiku: The tree leaves were such a tender green it was a delight!

Eden Haiku: Remembrance Day, we have too.

Eden Haiku: What are the Bank Holidays exactly? I remember we had that too hen I was living in India.

Agatha Macbeth: I always find it odd they remember people of two wars and not the hundreds of others there have been

Eden Haiku: Yes, it’s odd :)

Agatha Macbeth: Oh we've had Easter and May day and this one in about a month

Eden Haiku: It's just a break so bankers can count their money?

Agatha Macbeth: I think they would need more than three days to do that

Eden Haiku: Right!

 

Emerald Ash Borer

 

 

Agatha Macbeth says cheese

Eden Haiku: We are both dressed in dark blue shades of blue this morning Agatha :)

Agatha Macbeth: Are there many woods around where you are then?

Agatha Macbeth: Yay

Agatha Macbeth: I don't associate Montreal with trees...

Eden Haiku: Yes, quite many. A park just a five minutes away walk, a wood 30 minutes away. But I rented a car this week end and we went a bit further on Montreal island, where there is a centennial forest.

Agatha Macbeth: Oh wonderful

Agatha Macbeth: Is it like Vancouver then? That's mostly island i think

 

—BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: In a smaller wood we visited first, there was a forest of ash trees. We have an epidemic of  a virus from Asia attacking ash trees.

Agatha Macbeth: Or peninsula anyway

Eden Haiku: Do you have this too in England?

Agatha Macbeth: Oh dear

Agatha Macbeth: Think we get mostly elm disease

Eden Haiku: Montreal is an island yes :)

Agatha Macbeth: Right

Eden Haiku: We got that decades ago. But this new disease is destroying ash trees so fast...

Agatha Macbeth: You need more tree doctors

Eden Haiku: We ended up in a section where they had cut out all trees in order to save the rest of the wood. So desolate...

Eden Haiku: It's called "ash agryle »[ well, no wonder Agatha did not recognize this tree disease: even my French spelling was wrong, agrile (no ¨y¨) and it translates: emerald ash borer] and our tree doctors seem to be overwhelmed...

Agatha Macbeth: I saw a whole wood in Kent that got blown down in 1987 once

Agatha Macbeth: Awful

Eden Haiku: Gives a taste of how extinction will look like...

Eden Haiku: But on a lighter note, the centennial forest we visited afterwards had not been affected.

Eden Haiku: At least not in the areas we saw.

 

Nullarbor Plain and a UFO Incident

 

 

Agatha Macbeth: There's a place in Australia called Nullarbor Plain that gets its name from the fact no trees grow there

Agatha Macbeth: For hundreds of miles

Eden Haiku: The woman at the Welcome told us it was a good time for seeing the "trills of woods", these beautiful Spring flowers.

Agatha Macbeth: Wol goes to the Black Forest sometimes. That must be nice

Eden Haiku: Oh. No trees at all? Why, the soil is like "void" ?

Agatha Macbeth: I'm not sure

Agatha Macbeth: Maybe it's just desert

Eden Haiku: Will look it up. Thanks.

Eden Haiku: Desert of stones yes, maybe...

Agatha Macbeth: There was quite a famous UFO incident there a few years ago

Eden Haiku: Oh!!!

Eden Haiku: That explains a lot :)

Agatha Macbeth: One of the better documented ones

Eden Haiku: Oh!

Agatha Macbeth: Quite alarming actually

Eden Haiku: Was it?

Agatha Macbeth: Well five people said their car was lifted off the ground

Eden Haiku: Scary!

Agatha Macbeth: Yes

Agatha Macbeth: Seems odd five people would make up a story like that

Eden Haiku: Listening to some Australian news from 1988 on YouTube :)

Agatha Macbeth: Yes it was about then

Eden Haiku: Will post the link ;)

Agatha Macbeth: The bicentennial celebrations

Agatha Macbeth: Trying to remember the family's name…Knowles I think

Agatha Macbeth: The police seemed convinced something had genuinely scared them

Eden Haiku: Fishermen and a truck driver also experimented lights and other phenomenas...

Eden Haiku: Knowles right

Agatha Macbeth: Yes a truck driver saw something too

Eden Haiku: Quite impressive: https://youtu.be/ocrCzSIfj90

 

—BELL--

 

Agatha Macbeth looks

Eden Haiku: But without you bringing this up this morning, pulling it out of your memory, this would have stayed hidden into the dark net :)

Eden Haiku: it's a long video (12 minutes), so I will watch the rest after the session :)

Eden Haiku: Say cheese!

Agatha Macbeth: Cheese

Agatha Macbeth: Yes, interesting

Agatha Macbeth: Could have been a tornado or something, but that wouldn't explain the light of course

 

Passing Away in Shades of Rose

 

 

Eden Haiku: As I was telling the woman at the Welcome that we had seen trills of woods with light shades of pink earlier in the day, she had this beautiful turn of words;"yes, trills of the woods pass away in pink"when the canopy is cutting the rays of the sun, they start dying. Loved it!

Agatha Macbeth: Aww

Eden Haiku: smiles

Agatha Macbeth: I expect they grow before the trees are in full leaf

Eden Haiku: Poetic isn’it? She said; "le trille se meurt en rose", My translation doesn't convey the same dwindling beautiful sadness in rose shades :)

Agatha Macbeth:I know la vie en rose :p

Eden Haiku: Yes, they do appear when the leaves aren't there yet.

Agatha Macbeth: So it's like Piaf in reverse...

Eden Haiku: singing "la vie en rose" to herself...

Eden Haiku: Piaf in reverse!!!

Eden Haiku: Humming...

Agatha Macbeth:La mort en rose

Eden Haiku: Dying in shades of rose say the ladies in shades of blue

Agatha Macbeth:Oh you're blue too - thought it was black

Agatha Macbeth: I can see now

Eden Haiku: Yes, a very dark blue :)

Agatha Macbeth: Hm, indigo

Eden Haiku: Or ultra-violet?

Eden Haiku: Your outfit is closer to indigo I think

Agatha Macbeth: Ah, you can't see that :p

Agatha Macbeth: It's beyond the visible spectrum

Eden Haiku: Of colors and tastes...l

Agatha Macbeth: I'm aquamarine I think

Eden Haiku:Agatha-from-Beyond :)

 

Ultra Violet Rays and Genetic Differences in Red Hair

 

Agatha Macbeth: UV is actually very dangerous

Agatha Macbeth: I have to be very careful in the sun

Eden Haiku: You do?

Eden Haiku: Is UV can be dangerous.

Agatha Macbeth: Yes because I have no tolerance being a red

Eden Haiku: Ah yes, with a milk-like complexion?

Eden Haiku: With a few cute freckles?

Agatha Macbeth: We're only one step removed from albinos :P

Agatha Macbeth: I only have them on my arms these days

 

—BELL--

 

Agatha Macbeth: Used to be on my nose too as a kid

Eden Haiku: Really, is it related, same chromosomic difference as albinos, only less obvious?

Agatha Macbeth: It's certainly a genetic thing

Agatha Macbeth: Something about DNA

Agatha Macbeth: Inherited

 

Eden Haiku: Like the Weasley family in Harry Potter!

Eden Haiku: I'm playing this video game "Harry Potter: Hogwart's Mystery", Love it!

Agatha Macbeth: The alleles Arg151Cys, Arg160Trp, Asp294His, and Arg142His on MC1R are shown to be recessives for the red hair phenotype. The gene HCL2 (also called RHC or RHA) on chromosome 4 may also be related to red hair. There are 8 genetic differences associated with red hair color.

Agatha Macbeth: Not many people know that

Eden Haiku: Reading about Nullarbor Plain, it seems the bedrock is dry from a glacial event that happened during the Miocene Epoch, 20 millions years ago...

Agatha Macbeth: Been a while then

Eden Haiku: Interesting Agatha. Was wondering if Arg42His is connected to the ash agryle [was way off topic…] somehow? It is in our conversation anyhow ;)

Agatha Macbeth: Wonder how far Aus was from its present position then

Agatha Macbeth: Some DNA thing I guess

Agatha Macbeth: You would need to ask a biologist :p

 

A Landing Field and Message Sticks

 

Eden Haiku: Yes, maybe it's been a landing field for UFOS for 20 millions years and the car of the UFO family just happened to cross the plain as a UFO was landing...

Eden Haiku: The car of the Knowles family I mean :))

Agatha Macbeth: Well if it is there wouldn't have been many humans around for the most part

Eden Haiku: Maybe the UFO family was just going for a Bank or Memorial Holiday picnic on Earth :)

Agatha Macbeth: I *think* they were heading to the East Coast for the 200 year anniversary

Agatha Macbeth: There was a big celebration in 1988

Eden Haiku: The Knowles family you mean, and what about the UFO family?

Agatha Macbeth: Same thing :)

Eden Haiku: Maybe they heard of it too and had some aboriginal ancestors?

Agatha Macbeth: Could be

Eden Haiku:Aboriginals of Australia know so much about astronomy...

Agatha Macbeth: My boomerang won't come back, etc.

Eden Haiku: smiles

Agatha Macbeth: Anyway

Agatha Macbeth: I need to go cut the grass before it decides to rain again

Agatha Macbeth: Lovely to see you

Eden Haiku: They have these pieces of wood, "memory pieces" where they record their history, I can't remember how they call these...

Eden Haiku: Lovely to see you Agatha.

Eden Haiku: Have a great day!

Agatha Macbeth: Oh yes I've heard of those

Agatha Macbeth: Talking sticks :)  [Agatha was close, in Australia they are called Message sticks:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_stick]

Eden Haiku: Outfit is so gorgeous!

Agatha Macbeth: Think it was the first thing I bought in SL

Agatha Macbeth: From Blak Opal

Eden Haiku: Wow!

Agatha Macbeth: Nearly 10 years now

Agatha Macbeth:A decade of SL and PaB

Eden Haiku: Thank you for attending this morning Agatha, it was a pleasure talking with you :)

Agatha Macbeth: Take care

 

—BELL--

 

Agatha Macbeth: I'll look out for tweets :P

Eden Haiku: Bye!