tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7744431297917220971.post8809612489628810458..comments2023-10-09T17:20:44.686-08:00Comments on Ink & Snow: "Going To Seed" (Fireweed)jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09929486289400863627noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7744431297917220971.post-3645393860965179732015-09-21T16:54:03.302-08:002015-09-21T16:54:03.302-08:00Thanks, man. I am woefully sporadic with the drawi...Thanks, man. I am woefully sporadic with the drawing, but I write all the time. I always was a verbose little fella.<br /><br />When the economy was booming, the environment took a pounding from development pressure. An ecosystem has a certain carrying capacity. The same is true of an economy. When the money poured in, people poured in to get a piece of it. When they left, a lot of it left with cafiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05749761363337659545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7744431297917220971.post-48778223646937624082015-09-21T13:32:48.600-08:002015-09-21T13:32:48.600-08:00Wow - that's better written than most of my po...Wow - that's better written than most of my posts... thank you.<br />Somewhere I put up a cartoon of when migrating to Maine from here and thinking the crusty sourdough could go toe-to-toe with any salty New Englander with regards to enduring a cold, hostile clime... right up until the first wind came in and cut me to the bone & I whimpered like a lost dog. HA. So yup - it sure is jamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929486289400863627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7744431297917220971.post-27961548262106923532015-09-20T09:36:44.103-08:002015-09-20T09:36:44.103-08:00In some ways, I think of Northern New England as &...In some ways, I think of Northern New England as "Alaska Lite." The people of Quebec smile indulgently at this conceit, but I stress the word "lite." New England attracted a ton of dreamers in the 1980s who had made their killing in one of the lucrative industries of the time and bought their little piece of heaven in the north woods.<br /><br />Then winter came. The realitiescafiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05749761363337659545noreply@blogger.com