Autumnal Day
2005.09.27 11:22

What a perfect autumnal day it is today, isn't it?
Today is the last day of my duty there - one of my workplace, I prepare to say good-bye to anyone who are there.
I must face another reality soon regardless of whether I like it or not, but preferably I intend to find a workplace that suits my lifestyle.
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Well, if you like Autumn(Score:2)
by sam_handelman (519767) <skh2003 @ c o l u m b i a . edu> on 2005.09.27 11:56 (#13655777) (http://www.columbia....ndelman/student.html Last Journal: 2005.09.25 2:38)
It's definitely the best season to be in the northeastern US as well, and the native plants are particularly impressive -http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/Dept/BIO/WheatonTree s/WTWhome.htm [wheatoncollege.edu]I particularly recommend sugar maples, some of these are not native (Ginkgo, for example).http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/Dept/BIO/WheatonTree s/Sugar%20Maple/SugarMapleTour.htm [wheatoncollege.edu]Unfortunately, most people have the faster growing Norway maples (very red leaves, gaudy even), which are not as nice. I've become a big believer in native plant gardening (except that I'll keep the eucalyptus and bamboo, whatever the environmental consequences.)--Just getting to hurt people and ruin stuff is reward enough for the rubber pants commandos! [ Reply to This ]
Re:Well, if you like Autumn(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.09.27 13:49 (#13656194) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.02 7:27)
Thanks for the links, I appreciated these.
As to the latitude, both two countries located at the same area, we used to have humid days a lot but the climate has been changing these days and now I feel more dried and comfortable than before.
I noticed those trees in America are bigger and more straight than those here, we have relatively smaller and inclined, not to say we plant truncated trees in mountains. Whenever we have around the periods of autumnal and vernal equinoxes I feel like staying in a same climate, convincing human wisdom someday finds the way to keep our temparature always moderate. Though it takes a long time to achieve.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:Well, if you like Autumn(Score:2)
by sam_handelman (519767) <skh2003 @ c o l u m b i a . edu> on 2005.09.27 20:20 (#13657118) (http://www.columbia....ndelman/student.html Last Journal: 2005.09.25 2:38)
I don't regard the trees around here as particularly large - certainly compared to the great sequoia back home in California they are not.http://www.greentortoise.com/graphics/yo_vert_redw ood_99.jpg [greentortoise.com] Of course those are evergreens. I'd always assumed that the size of the trees had more to do with weather than the lay of the land. I suppose it is a combination of the two. California is quite mountainous, but has no significant storms, and in the mountainous regions the soil is still very deep. Japan does get occasional typhoons, and is an island, nowhere very far from the sea. The bigger trees in New England, which gets even fewer hurricanes than Japan, are generally father inland - the trees on Cape Cod are smaller, as a rule. I think I recall a study of all this but cannot find it.--Just getting to hurt people and ruin stuff is reward enough for the rubber pants commandos! [ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:Well, if you like Autumn(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.09.28 10:44 (#13663562) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.02 7:27)
I suppose it is a combination of the two.
That's it. Whatever the size of the trees and however the shape of the trunks, it's a lot of fun to walk around the street, smelling the scent of greens.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Reply to This Parent ]
lucky you(Score:1)
by eglamkowski (631706) <eglamkowskiNO@SPAMangelfire.com> on 2005.09.27 22:33 (#13657728) (http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski Last Journal: 2005.10.01 1:16)
Here in Atlanta we're still getting 90 degree temperatures with 90% humidity.Bleh.Wouldn't be quite so bad but that I have to do a lot of walking downtown, where it is hotter still (cities have "heat bubbles" and all), so I get so sweaty. It's quite nasty.--Glamkowski's Law of Email: Co-workers will never read more than two lines worth of any email you send them. [ Reply to This ]
Re:lucky you(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.09.28 11:16 (#13663713) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.02 7:27)
I live in Fukuoka, the longitude is exactly same - 33 39N our city, and your city 33 50N.
Here we have 82 degrees highest and 69 degrees lawest, just a perfect pleasant autumnal day. Once I used to walk around the central business district downton Atlanta in late summer (it was in 1986, sorry long ago), it was like a 'white jungle' - area surrounded by a high wall of building and concrete pavement, there seemed to be no way the heat escapes, there was just a heat island. The centre of Atlanta needs to plant lots of greens to alleviate it (if I recall correctly). Atlanta is located at the midst of the American continent, wise city planning is to be needed.
Sorry for not saying any compliment, we are prone to have number of typhoons, both cities would be neither heaven nor hell.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Reply to This Parent ]
Re:lucky you(Score:1)
by eglamkowski (631706) <eglamkowskiNO@SPAMangelfire.com> on 2005.09.29 0:29 (#13667189) (http://www.angelfire.com/nj/eglamkowski Last Journal: 2005.10.01 1:16)
Atlanta is still a white, paved hell with concrete buildings. Nothing's changed. There is Centeniall Olypmic Park which helps a little, but not nearly enough. And it's just grass, not trees.20 minute walk from the train station to my office. In sweltering heat and humidity. I'm drenched in sweat by the time I get in. It's disgusting.Blech.--Glamkowski's Law of Email: Co-workers will never read more than two lines worth of any email you send them.