Comments | _ginevra_: Rose the Pyro

_ginevra_

Rose the Pyro

Mar 27, 2006 13:38

About a month ago, I participated in my first perscribed burn at the Konza Prairie Biological Station ( Read more... )

Comments 9

geezerlee March 27 2006, 22:46:19 UTC

I'd say "Get some pics and post them," except your descriptions are so vivid, I'd rather do without the pics. I especially like the suddenly-revealed flint boulders, and the climactic smoke plume.

This has been a good year for grass fires. You getting any rain up there, at all?

_ginevra_ March 28 2006, 05:46:02 UTC

Thank you, I'm glad you get something out of my descriptions. I'm afraid of damaging my camera if I bring it on a burn, and it would be an added stress to try and take good pictures. But other people bring their cameras on the burns, and I may come around some day.

There are some pictures on the Konza website (http://www.konza.ksu.edu/). Click on the Image Gallery link, then Fire 1 and Fire 2.

Yes, we finally got some--and snow--in the past few weeks. But we're still in a severe drought.

geezerlee March 28 2006, 18:47:45 UTC

The pictures are impressive too. Interesting way to make a giant chessboard, what?

ichigumi March 29 2006, 08:05:24 UTC

I find that I don't typically appreciate a picture unless I've experienced the type of setting that it portrays, and even then, I don't feel it fully unless I was actually there. (must be something about memory recall I'm sure)

A picture is worth a thousand words? Not always.
Your description conveyed what no picture can. I wish you wrote novels.

Canti: God of the Black Flame moogs March 30 2006, 19:02:44 UTC

Just so you know, 1048 words in Rose's post. ; )

Re: Canti: God of the Black Flame ichigumi March 31 2006, 09:47:24 UTC

...hahaha canti from FLCL...that was my first thought too when I read "the wall of flame was a god bestowing its caustic grace"

and I *almost* counted the words, out of sheer curious compulsion. Then lazyness took over. I still have not..(although tempted), so I'll just take your word for it.

Re: Canti: God of the Black Flame moogs April 1 2006, 03:17:55 UTC

I just pasted it into word and ran the word count tool...unless you're saying you were too lazy to do that. That would be pretty lazy.

Oh shit _ginevra_ March 30 2006, 01:03:21 UTC

I wasn't sure where in the description to include the detail about bits of ash being blown out from the grass remnants, so I included it in two places and forgot to delete it from one of them.

Re: Oh shit ichigumi March 31 2006, 09:51:37 UTC

I didn't find it redundant, but you could always edit your journal entry if it really bothers you.