You and Carol just finished having lunch with Owen on Grandparents' Day. Earlier you were at Hillcrest Hospital with Kim and Paul while they waited on Brennan to come out of recovery so they can bring him home. You have been searching for trees and folage Merlyn might imagine as props for his Scottish homeland.
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Throughout most of British history, the trend has been to create farmland at the expense of forest. Furthermore, variations in the Holocene climate have led to significant changes in the ranges of many species. This makes it complex to estimate the likely extent of natural forest cover. For example, in Scotland four main areas have been identified: oak dominated forest south of the Highland Line, Scots Pine in the Central Highlands, hazel/oak or pine/birch/oak assemblages in the north-east and south-west Highlands, and birch in the Outer Hebride, Northern Isles and far north of the mainland.
Wikipedia Offline - Forestry in the United Kingdom
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1518 hours. I found some excellent photos at www.squidoo.com/Strathspey.
Scottish flowers: Yellow: St. John's Wart; Scottish Bluebell; Red/pink: Ragged Robin and Red Campion; Red Poppy; White; Ox-eye Daisy and Meadow Saxifrage; Purple; Melancholy Thistle; Heather, Foxglove to go with the Highland Valley trees.
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You want some authenticity in terms of the image of Merlyn's lair, his sanctuary. You have enough information but you are looking in from the outside, imagine instead from Merlyn's view. - Amorella
1638 hours. You are right, Amorella. The photos I have placed in a working folder are from someone else's lens. The image in my head is similar to that little valley east of Minerva Park's south lake on Minerva Lake Road. I don't have the photos with me but they are on the external drive at home.
Where you are thinking is below the canopy between the south lake and Minerva Lake Golf Course. Let's focus on that stretch using iPhoto. - Amorella
This is Merlyn's sanctuary from above. The water (lake) on the north is a stream (it takes five minutes to row by small boat) across two to six feet deep and the golf green is the south meadow. You have a photo of a curragh below:
Local author Robert Burcher displays his new book Leather Boat [a curragh] on Tuesday May 22, 2012 in Owen Sound. Burcher's new book explores theory that ancient Celts landed in North America using leather boats, similar to his replica model (foreground), centuries before the Vikings..--JAMES MASTERS/The Sun Times/QMI Agency
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Very cool, Amorella. Now I need to put this together.
You have a photo or two of the area below the canopy you want on the blog. Look for it. - Amorella
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Ruin of M. Park Theatre
Colorized image of theatre
Minerva Lake Facing West - Ruins to East
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On another note you found this article originally on BBC Science; however your interest is that as Human Genome is as a ball you wonder if this could also replicate the shape of HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither since the invisible human spirit, from the book's perspective is enclosed within. In this context it might be mentioned along with higher consciousness thought is also 'rolled up' as it were, i.e. billiard ball - thought, like light - Amorella
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The Human Genome in 3 Dimensions
By Brandon Keim
By breaking the human genome into millions of pieces and reverse-engineering their arrangement, researchers have produced the highest-resolution picture ever of the genome’s three-dimensional structure.
The picture is one of mind-blowing fractal glory, and the technique could help scientists investigate how the very shape of the genome, and not just its DNA content, affects human development and disease.
“It’s become clear that the spatial organization of chromosomes is critical for regulating the genome,” said study co-author Job Dekker, a molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. “This opens up new aspects of gene regulation that weren’t open to investigation before. It’s going to lead to a lot of new questions.”
As depicted in basic biology textbooks and the public imagination, the human genome is packaged in bundles of DNA and protein on 23 chromosomes, arrayed in a neatly X-shaped form inside each cell nucleus. But that’s only true during the fleeting few moments when cells are poised to divide. The rest of the time, those chromosomes exist in a dense and ever-shifting clump. Of course their constituent DNA strings are clumped, too: If the genome could be laid out end-to-end, it’d be six feet long.
From: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/fractal-genome/
1923 hours. I now have a document with images of the flowers I listed earlier in today's blog.
Looks like you are ready to write your description. Post. - Amorella
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