“Various designs for riparian buffer zones are used depending on the intended use.”
I imagine so…
“The question in riparian buffer zones has been a recent focus in the past decade.”
How long has that poor question been soaking in there? Does it have any nitrogen left?
The above is one of the joys of cross-disciplinary teaching. [...]
Archive for May, 2008
You’re soaking in it
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, Musing about Teaching on 23 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are not amused…
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, Musing about Teaching on 22 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are times when I’m just stunned. A final paper should show what a student’s learned over the course of the semester. So if the first paper in the term insists on using multiple primary and secondary sources of information and citing them properly, it just doesn’t look good if your final proposal doesn’t do [...]
Festival of Bad Writing — Final Portfolio edition!
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, Musing about Teaching on 20 May, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This post is likely to get several updates over the next few days, as I slog through this semester’s crop of student portfolios. Please note, these are all college juniors and seniors writing….
Our first competitor is writing about the optimum location for casinos in our state:
“While those you do not want the casino are [...]
Brilliant iris for a grey day of grading
Posted in Gardening, Musing about Teaching on 20 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m hoping this one shows up at the sale this summer: ‘Rustler‘ is just gorgeous. Although getting some louisianas and maybe siberians are the priorities, who wouldn’t love this beauty? Rich scent, great coloring, and apparently it reblooms!
In other news, I had some students — who did NOT have grade problems — follow me to [...]
Several garden tours and a lot more rain
Posted in Gardening, travel on 18 May, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There was a brief respite from grading yesterday, and also a brief respite from the rain [the state of the lawn, we will not discuss it]. What you’ll see in this post isn’t in my garden. Our first stop is Rebert’s Iris Haven, where Doris Rebert provided a lovely show of historic and [...]
Voice of the Beehive
Posted in Uncategorized on 14 May, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Now this is more like it!” say the bees. The big bumbles love the rhododendrons and larger azaleas. The smaller bees are delirious about the false indigo that just started blooming; they hover around with their tongues sticking out.
There seem to be fewer bees frequenting the exposed clay [which is good, because I [...]
Geeky gardening thoughts
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 May, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Elsinore is just recovering from nearly 5 inches of rain [so we don't want to discuss what the moats in the garden probably look like right now....Am I going to need mosquito dunks for those? Probably.]. The sun is now merrily beaming down on the Italianate house across the way; yellow stucco glaring [...]
Trench Warfare
Posted in Gardening on 9 May, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Actually, this isn’t a post about grading papers. That will come next week. Right now, it’s the continuing adventures of one gardener versus dense clay soil and torrential rains.
This sort of battle makes me feel like a grown-up. I remember my father out in the rain, hacking trenches into the garden — a hoe [...]
