Sucker holes, we got 'em

Nice big one floated over after lunch, giving my mom a perfect opportunity to exercise. It lasted long enough for me to get in my licks, and as a I ran up the hill after a workout, I beat the leading edge of another storm system. ( Not bragging, it wasn't moving very fast.)
Spent time steering the television into nature programs and away from the Virginia Tech tragedy. We much preferred watching the nature guys exploring various flora and fauna in the Galapagos Islands to seeing the vomit-inducing likes of Katy Couric milking the massacre for all it was worth to her ratings. There was a pretty interesting program on a public station about "The First Flower", how a passle of scientists have been competing for decades in the search for the oldest fossil record of flowers. They showed a good deal of footage of a mountain valley in, of all places, China, which seemed to have the forerunners of every flower you've ever seen, from lilies to rhodedendrons. At the rate China is destroying its environment, I wonder how long this idyllic place will last.