Dear Blog Reader
I hope this finds you doing well. I have been excited to
find that the trees do have leaves. I had wondered. But yesterday, out in the
country, where we don’t have the heat retaining properties of the big city, the
woods have reached that critical mass. They trees are more than sticks around a
trunk. We are rescued once again. I had worried that there was a real chance of
succumbing to carbon dioxide poisoning. Without any viable chlorophyll
converting CO2 to oxygen, I was starting to fear that we may all keel over from
oxygen depravation. We are saved.
I wonder sometimes if the reason the birds migrate each fall
is because they are very sensitive to lower oxygen levels brought on by the
lack of photosynthesis from depleted chlorophyll. Weren’t the canaries kept in
the mine for that very reason? They have these tiny little lungs. Yet they need
lots of oxygen to keep their mitochondria working through the Krebs cycle while
they are furiously flapping there wings trying to fool the laws of gravity. Who
knows? This may be a grand design. Maybe the Grand Old Designer gave the most
mobile of the creatures really small lungs so that they would move out of town
every year. And cumulatively, the oxygen saved provided enough life giving gas
for us less mobile bipeds and quadrupeds the ability to get through the winter.
It is just a thought.
I have a friend who knows much more than I do. He stated
that research has been done that shows that during high summer, when the days
are long, the corn is tall and the trees are in their glory, the atmospheric oxygen
levels actually increase. He stated that is the reason athletic endeavors are improved
during this time period. I must admit that July, August, and September have my
fastest times for riding. I suppose that only works for the country folk. You
who live in the concrete jungle are on your own.
See, I told you that there was some use for all of that
stuff you learned, or they tried to teach you in high school. Paul Simon didn’t
know what he was talking about and Mr. Ashburn did. Now get out there and learn something today.
Take care,
Roger
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