10 inches of snow on March 4, 5, 6 in our part of the Clarion River valley. Brought down lots of branches & small trees. Great scenes of vultures in the pines along a snowy river, dark. Doug & Jim are going to be on Louie FREE radio talk show tomorrow. I need to find out how many pounds of plastic bags are used and either recycled or landfilled every day in the USA. Watching white pines whipping in the spring's-a'-coming wind this afternoon here in Youngstown,...here in Youngstown...with a stomach full of blast-furnace chilie peppers. Norman Rockwell did ads for Sharon steel. The Newfoundland & Labrador Wildflower Society needs a new prez. or it will be dissolved! Big article in E magazine about Newfoundland fishery of cod being strip-mined away. Also one on the possibility of Zero Waste(i.e. hardly anything to landfill or incinerate). apparently New Zealand achieved this....