2019.05.27 07:00 - Nullarbor Plain and Other Stories

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

P.S. I would greatly appreciate if someone could share a tip on how to post photos with SL Viewer.  I have been using Firestorm for years but it's not compatible anymore with my new laptop. Sometimes it works, most times I can't post photos, regardless of the size. Wiki help isn't available anymore...

 

Agatha and Eden in time stamps size4 (thank you to Adams who explained the way to post)

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!