Wind blowing here, and I just gathered enough dry tinder from the Big Leafed Sycamores to recast all the aluminum cans I recovered from the trash ( $20 a week). Of course Ill start it with the dryer lint I periodically recover from the apt. laundry room. The landscapers shook their heads. We have virtual turf wars during the acorn crop. One of the richest food sources on earth, and it gets swept up with the 'trash' now. I make a few dishes with it and pack the rest with a salt block to a secret spot. The animals are marginallized with every new luxury development with lovely names like "Deer Meadows, Rustling Oaks Drive and( my favourite) Country Vistas." Then when a bear,coyote,skunk,badger,hawk,rattlesnake "invade" the vistas of yogurt shops, pizza parlours and pesticide laden golf courses :People who fled here for "A better lifestyle" cry out in alarm:O( JOHN MUIR "The next war im siding with the bears"