Yesterday I planted 4 persimmon trees and 8 wild plumb. They blend in so well with all the wild "weed trees" I figured I should label them-I made copper tags.

 A bit of time ago I found a 1959 copy of the Lord of the Flies (William Golding-1954) at the thrift store. It's Lesa Snyder's old copy and she liked Ted -"Lesa+Ted" is written three times in the book. Golding writes: "The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable. The whole book is symbolic in nature except the rescue in the end  where adult life appears, dignified and capable, but in reality enmeshed in the same evil as the symbolic life of the children on the island. The officer, having interrupted a man-hunt, prepares to take the children off the island in a cruiser which will presently be hunting it's enemy in the same implacable way. And who will rescue the adult and his cruiser?" -p.189.