| Colorado Wildflowers [message #67363] |
Tue, 14 July 2009 14:24 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
This article probably has nothing whatsoever to do with
IDL, but let's see. Sometimes the oddest things do, and
I've been thinking about this all day long.
The past two days have been glorious. Cobalt blue
skis and mountain peaks with the last vestiges of
snow appearing closer to you in the clear air than
they do at just about any other time of the year. We
live in Colorado just to enjoy days like this. And,
God knows, we have more than our fair share of them.
But the past two days, as I've driven into the outskirts
of Boulder, I have been overwhelmed with beautiful blue
flowers in the fields and along the roads. Some kind of
beautification campaign by the Chamber of Commerce? No,
just a rainy year and acres and acres of chicory flowering.
You can see a picture here:
http://www.easterncoloradowildflowers.com/_c_3frame.htm
Search for "chicory" on the page.
Chicory blooms in the morning, and then the flowers are
gone by about noon, with just a skeleton-looking plant
remaining by the time you have retrieved your plant book
and gone back to find out what this plant's name is. (I've
been taking native plant classes this past year, with an eye on
another career when IDL programming becomes completely point
and click.)
Naturally, chicory is an invasive (and, in our state, noxious)
weed and not the beautiful, uplifting plant I imagine it to
be. We should be yanking these things out by their roots.
But I'm not. I'm enjoying them. They make me feel good and
hopeful and happy on the drive to work. I can't wait to see
them again tomorrow.
OK, they are like IDL in this regard, I guess. I know there
are better flowers out there: orchids and columbines and fairy
slippers. But I like chicory. And I like IDL. Go figure.
Life's a mystery.
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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