Annie Dillard imitation

When I woke up this morning I remembered dreaming about being a patch of finally cared for blue grass growing in the yard by the house. With my mind constantly worrying about what will come of me today. As I lay here I can hear the thunder of horse hooves moving my way. Will I be tromped by the 1000 lb horse or will he/she engulf me into his jaw and have me as a mid day desert.
I made it through watching a few of my surrounding friends be smashed and bitten in half. As I start to beleive I have made it through I can now here the laughter of childeren moving my way. Will my life be threaten by the step of a toddler waldling around the yard for the first time in their life. If I make it through I am sure to be destroyed by someting in the days to come.

Buffalo for the Broken Heart

Dan O’Brien uses his land as close to the way it was used before it was homesteaded. This is just like what the English department is trying to do with the Casey land. O’Brien’s land is a little different than the Casey land because he is fencing it off and trying to raise cattle or buffalo for a profit to make a living. If he wanted to be more like the English department is with the Casey land he would remove all fences and let the land over grow with weeds and bushes. He would also would be leaving it open to all wild animals to live there.

Casey Land Snap Shot

The Casey Land trip was very normal surroundings for me. My family and I spend a lot of time in areas like this in Iowa and Montana to go horseback riding. In the places we go in Montana we pack up into the mountains for a week or two and live with the bears and moose. There was only one thing that stood out to me on the Casey land and that was the stream. I surprised me that it was so shallow and had a solid bottom of rock. Most creeks I see in Iowa have more of a mud bottom to them.

What I did over spring break

For break I went to Fort Worth, Texas with my husband for our honey moon. While down there we spent our whole time at the Stock Yards. They have now made most of the cattle yards into tourist shops and restaurants. The train yard is still used because during the day they have train rides and they also have trains bringing in people from other parts of Texas to spend a few hours at the Stock Yards. Two times a day you will hear the clip clomping of horse hooves against the brick road. As the cowboys drive a long-horn heard of cattle down through the streets.

Wendell Berry

I felt this poem kinda gives a brief description of what the world is becoming over time. Mixed in whit it is things he is telling us to do. Not sure if these things are suppose to make it easier for us in this changing world.

Having Faith

I am going to talk about the substance in the essay Having Faith. The author uses evidence such as facts, statistics, quotations, and even some of her own life experiences to contrary her purpose to the reader. One example of a quote from the essay is from 1996 “Breast milk if regulated like infant formula, would commonly violate Food and Drug Administration action levels for poisonous or deleterious substances in food and could not be sold.” From her own experience that she brings up to help prove how important the topic is when they started pulling eggs off the grocery store shelf because it was infected. As the time went by they started pulling, all meat, milk, and butter too for the same reasons. One supporting detail that stuck out to me was the one where she listed the side effects of the chemical dioxide. She used the emotional approach by mentioning the treble side effects it can have on an unborn child.

John Muir

John Muir's audience for his essays is the person that looks at the land as being a wonder that God created. His purpose is to convince the reader that some of the things we assume the devil created, such as the alligator and bear, are not as bad as we make them out to be. He tries to gain authority by making you think he went through these adventures. He uses emotion to drawl you in an example of this is when the dog is being attackted by the alligator.

A First American Views His Land

The attended audiance for this essay is people who are interested in the way the first American viewed there land. The purpose of this essay is to let the audiance know how the first Americans viewed the land as they learned how to survive off the land. The woman who died and they burried her in a very butiful hide dress. When he was discussing it in the essay he mentioned the fact that they did not mark her grave so they only have a small idea of where they burried the body. This goes back to the whole purpose of the article about how the first Americans viewed the land and nature.

The Wilding: A Fiction Reading

I chose to attend The Wilding: A Fiction Reading by Benjamin Percy. Jimmy an ISU graduate student did the introduction before the author began his reading. The three main characters in the book are Brian a war vet, Justin a teacher, and Karin Justin's wife. I found this novel very different from what we have been reading for class. Throughout the whole reading you could feel all the feelings that the characters were going through. Also, you could feel their pain. Durning the whole reading I felt I was right there in the same surrounding as characters.

This type of novel is not what I would normally read for fun. I normally read western romance novels in my free time, but after listening to the reading I have decided to spice things up next September and buy the book and read it with my friends.

Two questions for Terry Tempest and Rick Bass

What made you choose to write about your home areas?
Do you do most of your writings about wild animals? And if so why?

The James Gang Hideout Hut

The James Gang Hideout is located on the mountain side the railroad owns above my grandparents'' house just south of Livingston in Montana. The hut is made from large logs, with a grass and leaf covered roof. With the door oriented to the northeast , so when you walk out you see the meadow a few feet below. A mix of tall Western Larches and Subalpine Firs surround the hut threatening to take over the mountain. A few feet to the northeast of the hut is a meadow full of large rocks and several kinds of wild flowers. These wild flowers are breath taking in the late spring and through the summer. The shape of the hut is octagon and seems more spacious from the inside that it does from the outside. From deep inside you can hear the harmony of country western love songs. As you wonder inside the hut the first thing that will catch your eye is the small, wood table that is set for two with fine china. Placed in the middle of the table is a white vase with a red ribbon full of fully bloomed red roses. Then around the vase is four candles lit and lighting the well set table. As you try to back out quietly without making a sound you notice a young, in love couple sitting on the loveseat watching the fire burn in the wood stove.

Map of Hardin County

Included in this map are only two of the main highways that are in the county. These highways are included just to help people figure out what part of Iowa it is located. This map is a little dated because Hwy 20 now runs all the way through the county just south of Iowa Falls and north of Buckeye, Owasa, and Steamboat Rock. This map also shows all the towns in the county where they are located. The map leaves out county roads, peoples houses, and the buisnesses in the towns. These are left out because the perpus of the map is to show what towns are in Hardin County.

My home town is Lenox, Iowa down in the southwest corner of the state. I chose this immage because it is the bigest commpany in our small town. Barker Implement is the only buissness in town that every body goes to besides the school. If I could represent the twon differntly I would have took a picture of the rodeo arena. Wich puts on one the the best rodeos around one a year.

I am going to use the Alice Walker essay. The major theme in this piece is that every living thing has feelings. These feelings can be sad, hurt, angury, or happy. The piece went on to talk aboout how we are hurting the trees and how the snake was scard to venture from the garden, because that has always been its home. A minor theme is that we are not indivdualy judged. For example, when people think snakes are dangurous they asoom they all are. Instead we should judge them as individuals. Towards the end it went on to talk about how as one person we can not change the oppion of others about humans without all humans changing their ways.

100-word "photo"

The image I am using is located on page 82. When looking at just the bottom half of the photo it looks like any ordinary small community. It shows part of the side of a white house with black boarders around the two windows. Below the windows is a petite patio. From the patio you can see part of a small garden with a variety of plants growing. Beyond the garden there is a white tool shed. Further down the yard you see a neighbor's house. This house a yellow worn-down house. From here you would expect to see comely blue skies. Instead you see what looks like huge, whit flower vases. These objects in the back ground of the photo are parts of the coal plant.