Picture Notes

Here are spring flowers to remind me of the change of seasons, and you too, if you need a reminder. Spring is the best time of year, it’s rutting season on the ranch and in the mountains and storms roll across the US heartland creating some pretty interesting situations.

Once again we had little snow this winter and it was mild. I sound like the Farmer’s Almanac or something but what I really want to write about is love. I just finished season 1 of The Tudors and I want to understand Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. How did they become the people they became and why was Henry so interested in killing all his past wives. Anne kept him waiting for sex for 7 years, or so the story goes, that just seems crazy. Chopping someone’s head off is a kind of an extreme solution to a fairly simple problem. But this is just me speaking and I don’t live in the 16th Century.

We still have many of the same superstitions but they have been lessened by technology, mass production, science and health care. I’m glad the church isn’t still up in our grill the way it was then. I wonder if there really are any diseases that bleeding a person helps. I recommend the series even though it’s a bit salacious in spots.

And, oh yeah, America has reached it’s 4,000th battlefield death in Iraq.  These are just the American professional soldiers and it’s not a count of the contractors and mercenaries or Iraq civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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