Tree Hugging

When I left NC at 5:00AM this morning it was at least 70 degrees and when I got to Fredricksburg Va. around noon it was 37 and raining sort of a grim reminder that our short vaca is over, but it couldn't have been much nicer the entire weekend was perfect. We didn't get much fishing in but we had a great time enjoying the beach and some other fun activities. I tried to read a really lame book and wound up giving up on it. In my search for reading material I picked up Vanity Fairs latest edition. I have always avoided that mag because of the perfume adds it is just to annoying smelling them while I try to read. Anyway they must have changed their policy or offer mags without odor and I stumbled on one. Al Gore has an essay in this addition I thought was well worth reading. His perception of our enviromental challenges are well stated and seem well grounded in scientific data, thats sort of something evryone has absorbed over time and isn't exactly hot off the presses, What I thought was more interesting and hopefully somewhat prophetic is his positive outlook on our way out of ecological hot water and how weighted it is in opportunity. He took a few shots at bush but mostly it was refreshingly positive. I wanted to blogg it but miss manners must have stepped in. I'm not stepping over the no politics line here I hope, I have recently found some interesting reading on the subject politics seem to swirl around the issue but it seems to be bigger than that. Same issue there is also a great article on surface minning in West Va. Yours in tree hugary; Keith