More Praise for Trees

The good news today is that this morning the Forces Above have again been favoring us by dropping some rain. This comes on the heels of a thunderstorm late in the evening a few days ago that broke a period when things had started making it necessary to start watering various plants.

With global warming ever looming, anything is good that goes against the possibility of creating anything that even remotely suggests those worst results of the lack of water -- deserts.

I have yet to read or to hear of any study that praises deserts and touts their usefulness, and I don't see how there can be any doubt that the nasty tempers that rage everywhere in the Middle East are due to more than just obsession with religion or the crusades of Christians. It is caused mainly by the treelessness there.

This certainty calls into additional question the decision of the survivors of the German death camps of the 1940's to take up residence in that least desirable part of the world's geography.

Unless a group is interested in evolving into scorpions, to set up shop in places where tall trees don't grow is asking for trouble every time.