Peter, I'm another voter favoring your journalizing or editorializing or whatever. I thought today's contribution was both beautiful and thoughtful--wetlands all around the country have been filled and subdivided and had airports built where they were. It's only one of the proofs that mankind is a degenerate species, constantly befouling its living quarters. I think I posted this before, but it seems relevant here: Many years ago a student of mine wrote a term paper on the thesis that the living organism that is the earth will ultimately marshal its defenses against mankind and reject the species. I don't remember too much about his sources (The Population Bomb, Silent Spring, etc., as I recall). What was really memorable was the wonderful mixed metaphor with which he concluded: "When the fly in the ointment gets too big, the sleeping giant wakes." --seed