Winter Seed Catalog Moon
Made a concerted push and finished Climate Change, Week 2, today. Always surprised at how concentrated mental effort exhausts me.
A bit of Latin today. It was interesting, so I’ll post it here. Ovid describes the state of the countryside in Lycaon’s kingdom after the flood:
This occupies the high ground, a hooked ship sits
294 And draws its oars here, where not long ago a farmer plowed,
295 Above the fields or sails over the top of buried villas,
296 This ship on the surface catches fish in elm-trees.
This apres deluge piece from the Metamorphoses reminded me of a story I followed with fascination as a high school student. The Army Corps of Engineers put a dam on the Salamonie River and submerged Monument City (pic) and two other towns. The Corps bought the towns in 1965 and moved everyone out, including, which intrigued me at the time, all the cemeteries.
In this case you can literally catch fish in the elm-trees. There was a dark glamour to the whole project. These towns flooded regularly and the dam sought to end the problem of rising waters in the area by covering them with water so that hooked ships might draw their oars there.
Kate’s sister Anne has been here the last couple of days sewing. She’s got a couple of days off from the jail in Shakopee.
