tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post114951422078400237..comments2008-12-13T03:21:26.201-05:00Julie Zickefoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06654698829603424649noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-1150251264005712012006-06-13T21:14:00.000-05:002006-06-13T21:14:00.000-05:00Congrats on your upcoming book Zick! How wonderful to weep for joy. I heard you knocked 'em dead at Holden. Another great gift to other birders and poets!Peter Kingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-1149566298048829892006-06-05T22:58:00.000-05:002006-06-05T22:58:00.000-05:00Read them both! I had a little trouble swallowing all of Pollan's assertions, but I liked the premise. And I dug The Orchid Thief, and have the DVD, too. I met a man this weekend who had had orchid thieves dig priceless clumps of seed-grown cypripediums right out of his yard. He mourned them as he would a beloved pet.Julie Zickefoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06654698829603424649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-1149536035268597222006-06-05T14:33:00.000-05:002006-06-05T14:33:00.000-05:00For a zany read about orchids, try the Orchid Thief--by Susan Orlean--simply addictive --I couldn't put it down.it's mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05429660024755646426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19608656.post-1149515582469697532006-06-05T08:53:00.000-05:002006-06-05T08:53:00.000-05:00You might enjoy reading Michael Pollan's <I>The Botany of Desire</I> (if you haven't already. It's along the lines of what you say about shaping plants to our likeness, but it reverses the premise and discusses how some plants have succeeded because they have evolved ways for us to like them (apples, potatoes, cannibis, and others). Well written, as all his works are.<BR/>Yes, rainy days in the wild are fine!pablohttp://roundrockjournal.comnoreply@blogger.com