Hunting Season
2 journalers for this copy...
Passed along from my MIL. Have started, will journal again when done.
Once again I enjoyed Nevada Barr's tales of Anna Pigeon, park service ranger. This time Ranger Pigeon is assigned on the Natchez Trace, and is faced with a murder and the good ole boy system as well. The story was well-written and held my attention.
I particularly enjoyed Barr's descriptions of the woods of Mississippi. As an Alabama girl, I too find particular joy in Southern woods, but they are by no means similar to the northern forest. Here's a passage that rang particularly true:
p. 78: "In dryer, higher climes one could actually come to know the woods. Not so in Mississippi. Here the forests were rich and deep and changeable as the sea. The land was not forged of granite and lava. There were no rocky outcroppings or mountains to hold the earth in place. Waterways changed their courses. Rivers and streams, not under the iron hand of the Army Corps of Engineers, left their beds to form new ones. Windstorms and tornadoes downed trees or uprooted them from the soft loess, the region's powdery soil, and flung them into the boughs of their fellows. Ice storms shattered branches, crushed them into the ground beneath. Through this ongoing upheaval and change, life as tenacious and persevering as that of the people who lived in the south pressed on. Vines claimed the fallen trees; trees sprang up in old streambeds. The dirt itself rotted underfoot, crumbling away at a touch."
I particularly enjoyed Barr's descriptions of the woods of Mississippi. As an Alabama girl, I too find particular joy in Southern woods, but they are by no means similar to the northern forest. Here's a passage that rang particularly true:
p. 78: "In dryer, higher climes one could actually come to know the woods. Not so in Mississippi. Here the forests were rich and deep and changeable as the sea. The land was not forged of granite and lava. There were no rocky outcroppings or mountains to hold the earth in place. Waterways changed their courses. Rivers and streams, not under the iron hand of the Army Corps of Engineers, left their beds to form new ones. Windstorms and tornadoes downed trees or uprooted them from the soft loess, the region's powdery soil, and flung them into the boughs of their fellows. Ice storms shattered branches, crushed them into the ground beneath. Through this ongoing upheaval and change, life as tenacious and persevering as that of the people who lived in the south pressed on. Vines claimed the fallen trees; trees sprang up in old streambeds. The dirt itself rotted underfoot, crumbling away at a touch."
Journal Entry 3 by WarEagle78 at Hoover Rec Center in Hoover, Alabama USA on Sunday, January 2, 2005
Released on Sunday, January 02, 2005 at about 4:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Hoover Rec Center in Hoover, Alabama USA.
RELEASE NOTES:
On one of the magazine racks in the cardiovascular equipment room.
RELEASE NOTES:
On one of the magazine racks in the cardiovascular equipment room.
Nevada Barr's books are a good read
CAUGHT IN ALABASTER ALABAMA USA
CAUGHT IN ALABASTER ALABAMA USA
