Rural Ways spent four or five weeks working in South Dakota during 2010. Here is an excerpt from one of those days:I've been looking at forest stands in the Black Hills for nine straight days. I'm going to take tomorrow off. Right now it is 50F and sunny. Nice weather for walking in the woods. The woods consist of ponderosa pine, white spruce, quaking aspen, and paper birch. I call them pipo, pigl, potr, and bepa. Commonly, the most common understory shrub is the common juniper. There is a pretty good road system, but the drainage is poor and the native surface holds water. After some rain last weekend, things have been a bit snotty.
Good to see you back posting, D.D. Stuck again in the burbs (the farm for 7 mos. was wonderful), I'm living vicariously through you and your posts.
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Thanks for checking in, Big D. Hey, you're from Nebraska. D'ja grow up on Willa Cather? Here is a quote about the urban life: "[T]his was the trouble with big cities; they built you in from the earth itself, cemented you away from any contact with the ground."
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