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Ecological Succession
Aug. 19th, 2003 10:12 amSunday afternoon and evening, I was up east. We stopped off at my uncle Edwin's (formerly the home of my late maternal grandparents) in Rollo Bay West for lunch, including garden vegetables. We then went further east, to Bear River, to visit my paternal grandparents for their 55th wedding anniversary and then went to a seafood restaurant in Naufrage, where I ordered a breaded clam platter.
It has been a while since I've managed to get up there, between work and other obligations. Since then, alder thickets and dense weeds have reclaimed much of what were once open fields, and my grandparents' old house (in the back yard behind their new modern bungalow) is caving in on itself. Eastern PEI is an area with relatively marginal agriculture, gutted by distance from markets and outmigration. In 1900, 80% of PEI was cultivated, but that figure has now dropped to less than half, and second-growth forest is spreading everywhere.
Sunday, I found a grey hair on my head, the first I've found in a bit. So far, my hair seems to take after the Wood (maternal) side of my family; unlike most of the men on my father's side and my father himself, I've not lost any of my hair. Like many of the men on the Wood side of the family, though, i might be going prematurely grey; my aforementioned uncle Edwin began going grey in his twenties. At least this will give me an excuse for hair dye.
The visit to the dentist's went well. I'd only one more cavity, and I was able to set up an appointment to check an intermittantly painful filling for the day before I leave. Fortunately, I don't seem to take after my mother's side of the family regarding teeth; I still have mine.
It has been a while since I've managed to get up there, between work and other obligations. Since then, alder thickets and dense weeds have reclaimed much of what were once open fields, and my grandparents' old house (in the back yard behind their new modern bungalow) is caving in on itself. Eastern PEI is an area with relatively marginal agriculture, gutted by distance from markets and outmigration. In 1900, 80% of PEI was cultivated, but that figure has now dropped to less than half, and second-growth forest is spreading everywhere.
Sunday, I found a grey hair on my head, the first I've found in a bit. So far, my hair seems to take after the Wood (maternal) side of my family; unlike most of the men on my father's side and my father himself, I've not lost any of my hair. Like many of the men on the Wood side of the family, though, i might be going prematurely grey; my aforementioned uncle Edwin began going grey in his twenties. At least this will give me an excuse for hair dye.
The visit to the dentist's went well. I'd only one more cavity, and I was able to set up an appointment to check an intermittantly painful filling for the day before I leave. Fortunately, I don't seem to take after my mother's side of the family regarding teeth; I still have mine.
