We\u2019re standing there in the parking lot. Standing in a circle waiting for the rest of the group to arrive. Waiting for our workout to begin.<\/p>\n
There was a loud bang and some oblong green thing the size of the tip of your thumb bounced off the trunk of a car and rolled on the pavement at our feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh,\u201d someone said, \u201cthere are so many of those \u2026 those green seedy things (if that\u2019s what they are).”<\/p>\n
I was at a loss for words. I still am. She\u2019s fast \u2014 much faster than I. She\u2019s friendly \u2014 always offers encouragement as she passes by on our workouts. But really. She doesn\u2019t know what an acorn is.<\/p>\n
On the other hand…<\/em><\/p>\n I am reminded of a time long ago when I heard someone describing the final exam for a class she was taking at UT. We were all engineers, but she was taking botany to broaden her horizons. And she was telling us that for the test, the professor walked each of them around campus and had name the trees and plants by their botanical names.<\/p>\n I was stunned. How could anyone do that? Anyone but a botanist. Quercus. Berberis. Asclepias. Ulmus. Helianthus.<\/em> How could any mere mortal be expected to…<\/p>\n But\u2026 acorn.<\/em><\/p>\n What a cranky snob I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re standing there in the parking lot. Standing in a circle waiting for the rest of the group to arrive. Waiting for our workout to begin. There was a loud bang and some oblong green thing the size of the tip of your thumb bounced off the trunk of a car and rolled on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}